Esra
Almas
Istanbul Sehir University
Albert J. Wood Fellowship
Research Topic
Beyond the Muslim/Jewish Divide: Confluence, Conversion, and Conviviality in Interwar Istanbul
Bio
Esra Almas is a professor in translation studies at Istanbul Şehir University. As part of her focus on modern Turkish literature, she has concentrated her research on the diaspora, exile narratives, the urban imaginary, auto/biography, and Sufism. She has published extensively on Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s most prominent novelists.
Almas earned her PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam and has taught at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey as well as at Haliç University, Istanbul.
Selected publications
- “Disoriented in Istanbul: A Reading of Its Fogscapes across the Twentieth Century,” Culture Theory and Critique (2016)
- “Framing My Name In Red: Reading a Masterpiece” in Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk, ed. M. Afridi and D. Buyze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
