ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOW 2024/25
Ceyhun Arslan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University (Istanbul) and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and at the Forum Transregionale Studien. He is also 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. During his time as a fellow at CURE, he is working on his second book project, tentatively entitled Thinking with the Mediterranean: Concepts, Literatures, and the World Reconfigured on Eastern and Southern Shores.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- “Disciplinary Utopias: Mediterranean as a Context and Artistic Mediations”. Utopian Studies 35, no. 1 (2024): 132–151.
- “Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr Weeps for Sultan Murad IV: Baghdad, Heritage, and the Ottoman Empire in Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī’s Poetry”. In The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry, edited by Suzanne Stetkevych and Huda Fakhreddine. Routledge, 2023.
- With Charles D. Sabatos. “Ďurišin’s Interliterary Mediterranean as a Model for World Literature”. In Sea of Literatures: Towards a Theory of Mediterranean Literature, edited by Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl, and Steffen Schneider. De Gruyter, 2023.
- “Spolia and Textual Reincarnations: A Reassessment of the Hagia Sophia’s History”. Convivium 7 (2021), 60–75. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.130921.
- “Ottoman Literature as Mediterranean Literature: Travel, Imperialism, and Comparison in ‘Hac Yolunda’by Cenab Şahabeddin”. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 28, no. 2 (2019): 171–186.
