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Erdağ Göknar
- Assistant Professor and Turkish Studies/DISC
- Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
- 308 Language Bldg
- Campus Box 90259
- Phone: (919) 660-3151
- Fax: (919) 660-3141
- Homepage
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Bio: Erdağ Göknar is Assistant Professor of Turkish at Duke University and a literary translator. He holds a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern studies (Turkish literature and culture) and an M.F.A. in creative writing. A Turkish-American scholar, he is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center where he is writing a critical analysis of the Turkish novel and Orhan Pamuk. He is the recipient of two Fulbright awards, the Dublin IMPAC literary award (with Orhan Pamuk), and an NEA translation grant. His partner, Banu Gökarıksel, is professor of cultural geography at UNC and their son Levent Sa'y, is a toddler. -
Specialties
- Turkish Studies
- International Comparative Studies
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Research Summary
Turkish cultural studies (literature, history, & politics); Eurasian and Middle Eastern politics of representation; the novel and national historiography; Islam and secularism, translation studies, identity/subjectivity -
Research Description
Primary focus on the legacies of the Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist cultural revolution upon modern Turkey and the Middle East. Secondary focus on cultural translation and representational politics of Turks and Muslims, including regional understandings of Turkey and Islam. Theoretical focus on literature and politics, gender and orientalism, colonialism and nationalism, Islam and modernism, translation and identity. -
Current Projects
"Insulting Turkishness": The Modern Turkish Novel and Orhan Pamuk (in-progress), Colonial Encounter and Cultural Revolution: Narrative Identities of Ottoman Modernism and Turkism (in-progress), A Mind at Peace (translation of Tanpinar novel), Archipelago Books, NY, 2008, Mediterranean Passages from Dido to Derrida, co-editor, UNC Press, 2008 -
Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire/Turkey
Eurasia/Middle East
Ottoman/Turkish relations with Europe
Narrative Identities
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Education
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- PhD, Near and Middle Eastern Studies,
- University of Washington, Seattle,
- 2004
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- MA, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization,
- NELC,
- University of Washington, Seattle,
- 1998
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- MFA,
- Creative Writing,
- Univ. of Oregon,
- 1994
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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- International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award,
- Dublin City and IMPAC,
- June, 2003
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Selected Publications
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- "Mediterranean Passages from Dido to Derrida."
- UNC Press,
- 2008.
- 425.
Publication Description
Through 100 texts and 30 images, _Mediterranean Passages_ advocates for a re-reading of the sea as a contact zone and a space of encounter and conversion that tempers the dominance of the nation-state. The volume argues for a transcultural and networked approach to the understanding of religious and secular communities that are often presented monolithically and as being mutually exclusive. The primary sources assembled here cover three millenia, and the conceptual framework employed by editors cooke, Göknar, and Parker is informed by the works of Braudel, Goitein, Abu Lafia, Horden & Purcell, Braudel, and others.
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- ""Orhan Pamuk and the 'Ottoman' Theme"."
- World Literature Today
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- "What's the Word?: Eco, Ghosh, Pamuk."
- 2007.
- (Broadcast on NPR)
- [Listen to Broadcast]
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PhD Students
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Johanna Schuster-Craig (German Studies)
- December 01, 2008 - 2012
- Status: PostQual
- Thesis: Turks in Germany: Gender and Identity
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