Dr. Arslan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Saarland University. He will also soon be the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures. His publications have appeared in journals and edited volumes, such as Middle Eastern Literatures (2016); Comparative Literature Studies (2017); Journal of Mediterranean Studies (2019); Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature (2023); and Utopian Studies (2024). His first book, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, has been published by Edinburgh University Press, and he is working on his second book project, tentatively entitled Becoming Mediterranean: The Sea Reconfigured in Arabic, French, and Turkish Literatures.
Publikationen (Auswahl)
- The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire, 2024).
- “Disciplinary Utopias: Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations,” Utopian Studies 35.1 (2024): 132-151.
- “Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry,” The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry, eds. Suzanne Stetkevych and Huda Fakhreddine (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023), 195-212.
- “Ďurišin’s Interliterary Mediterranean as a Model for World Literature,” co-written with Charles D. Sabatos, Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature, eds. Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl, and Steffen Schneider (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), 335-348.
- “Spoliaand Textual Reincarnations: A Reassessment of the Hagia Sophia’s History,” Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean 8 Supplementum/2 (2021): 60-75.
- “Ottoman Literature as Mediterranean Literature: Travel, Imperialism, and Comparison in Hac Yolunda by Cenab Şahabeddin,” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 28.2 (2019): 171-186.
