Ahmed Nuri earned his doctoral degree in literary studies from the University of Amsterdam in January 2024, with a thesis exploring the interplay between modernity, the concept of the tragic, and parody in the twentieth-century Turkish novel. He holds an MA in European Studies from Lund University, Sweden. His scholarly journey includes research fellows at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul in 2019 and the Netherlands Institute in Turkey in 2020. His research interests encompass non-Western novel theory, world literature, the tragic and its philosophy, parody, exile literature, Turkish socialist literature in Bulgaria, and the literary encounters between Turkey and Scandinavia. Additionally, Ahmed Nuri has been a freelance editor specializing in coffee table art books and, more recently, academic books regarding various literature translated into Turkish.
Recent Publications:
- “The Historical and Literary Context of Ateşten Gömlek’s Swedish Eldskjortan: the Translation Strategy, the Letters Between the Translator and Halide Edib, and the Reception of the Novel in Sweden.” Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi (TUDED) 63, no. 1 (April: 2024): 117–156.
- “Tanpınar’ın Alımlanmasına Dair Bir İzah Denemesi (II): Yeniden Keşiften Fahri Tanpınarcılığa.” K24, December 28, 2023.
- “Tanpınar’ın Alımlanmasına Dair Bir İzah Denemesi (I): Tanpınar Kaç Beden Giyer?.” K24, December 14, 2023.
- The Tragic as an Ironic (Im)possibility in Orhan Pamuk’s Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları.” Zemin 5 (June 2023): 24-49.
- “Turkish Literature as World Literature.” Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 4 (April 2023): 135-146.
- “Can the Tragic Also Be Feminist? An Essay on the Poetics of Crisis Narratives in the 1960s and 1970s.” Zemin, 3 (June 2022): 128–161.