Kaitlin Staudt
Areas of expertise
Global Modernist Literature, World Literature
Teaching interests
Global modernist literature, the Turkish novel, Women and Gender studies, World Literature, and Postcolonial literary theory.
Publications
Monograph
Under review: State-sponsored Modernity and the Modernist Novel in Turkey: 1908-1948
Journal Articles:
"'Move Forward and Ascend!' Temporality and the Politics of Form in Turkish Modernist Literature," Modernism/Modernity. Volume 30: Issue 4, November 2023 (print) and June, 2024 (online).
“The End of Great Periods: Late Ottoman Decadent Poetry and the End of the Ottoman Empire,” Volupté. Vol 6: Issue 1, 2023.
“World Literature Bigger Than Five: Contemporary Turkish Fiction and State-sponsored Literary Politics,” Journal of World Literature, Volume 7: Issue 3. 2022: pp. 369–384.
“(In)visible Beauty Queens: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Women’s Visibility in Turkey.” Feminist Modernist Studies, Volume 2, Issue 3. 2019: pp. 287-303.
“Original resemblance: the function of similarity in Tanpınar’s 'Yaz Gecesi.'” Middle Eastern Literatures Volume 20, Issue 2. 2017: pp 215-231.
book chapters:
“Imperialism and Literary Modernism in the Turkish Republic” in The Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2025.
“Daughters of Educated Men in the World: Halide Edip Adıvar, Virginia Woolf, and the aesthetics of Turkish-British international exchange” in Virginia Woolf and Turkey. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury Press, 2025.
“Introduction,” in Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires Essay cluster. Accepted & forthcoming at Modernism/Modernity for publication on the Print+ platform.
“For/Against the World: The Politics of Literature in the New Turkey” in Turkish Literature as World Literature, edited by Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
“Turkish Modernism” in Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, edited by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.[Winner of the 2020 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection]
Editorial Contributions:
Editor, “Global Modernisms and Asia’s Other Empires” Essay cluster. Forthcoming at Modernism/modernity for publication on the Print+ platform.
Editor of Turkish Modernism Section in Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, eds. Moody and Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Translations:
“Civilizational Change and Inner Man [Medeniyet Değiştirmesi ve İç İnsan]” by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and “Some Thoughts about Poetry [Şiir Hakkında Bazı Mülahazalar]” by Ahmet Haşim in Global Modernists on Modernism anthology, eds. Moody and Ross. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Additional media
Distinctions
"The Empire that Can't Write Back: Ottoman-Turkish Literature and the Question of Postcoloniality," ACLS Project Development Grant - applied 9/2023, received 5/2024.
Academic credentials
BA English & French, Wellesley College; MS Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present, Faculty of English, University of Edinburgh, UK; MPhil, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK; PhD, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UKKarp Hall 115
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