• I am a comparatist. I work across a variety of research languages (Persian, Turkish, Spanish, and English) and historical periods (modern and contemporary, but with a view to how earlier eras endure). My book manuscript, Out of Sync: The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time, frames cross-cultural theory through time, rather than space.听

    My next project, The Global Upani峁ds, examines how ancient Indian philosophy influenced modern global thought. Both projects reflect an abiding interest in the non-aligned world. Curiosity about that world鈥攂efore, during, and after European hegemony鈥攎otivates my teaching, especially my seminar on cosmopolitanism.

    My work appears in leading scholarly and journalistic venues, such as New Literary History, PMLA, MLQ, Modernism/Modernity, Philosophy and Literature, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Nation.听听I hold a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University.听

    • Ph.D. Yale University (2019)
    • B.A. University of Pennsylvania (2014)
    • 鈥淏eyond Epistemic Pluralism.鈥 Forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature,
    • Introduction to and translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanp谋nar鈥檚 鈥淟etter to a Young Girl in Antalya.鈥 With Selin 脺nl眉枚nen. PMLA 138.2 (2023): 356-361.
    • 鈥淕lobal Autofictional Fl芒nerie.鈥 Modernism/Modernity 29.2 (2022): 219-239. *Reprinted in M/m Print +.
    • 鈥淭he Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanp谋nar, Proust.鈥 听MLQ 82.4 (2021): 473-498. *Reprinted in the Stanford Arcade Colloquy.
    • 鈥淓kphrastic Temporality.鈥 New Literary History 52.2 (2021): 239-260. *Winner of the Ralph Cohen Prize.
    • 鈥淭raveling Realisms, Shared Modernities, Eternal Moods: The Uses of Chekhov in Nuri Bilge Ceylan鈥檚 Winter Sleep.鈥 Adaptation 12.1 (2019): 12-26.
    • 鈥淗amid Dabashi鈥檚 Persophilia.鈥 Critical Inquiry 49.1 (2019): 249-251.
    • 鈥淔athers, Sons, and the West in Orhan Pamuk鈥檚 Turkey. The New Yorker (2017).
    • 鈥淐iudad Ju谩rez in Roberto Bola帽o鈥檚 2666: Mexico鈥檚 Violent Cradle of Modernity.鈥 Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 57.4 (2016): 402-416.
    • 鈥淭he Readymade Novel.鈥 The New Republic (2015): 82-83. [Translated into Spanish in Revista Nexos; Portuguese in Antunes; Italian in Grafias; and Tamil in Padhaakai]
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    • Introduction to Comparative Literature
    • Cosmopolitanism
    • World Literature
    • Consciousness and the Novel
    • Ralph Cohen Prize, New Literary History, 2020
    • Public Humanities Fellowship, 性爱天堂, 2022-3