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Arif Camoglu
@arifcmgl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English @ucdavis

Global 18th and 19th Centuries, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Anglo-Ottoman Encounters, Empire Studies.
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Some good news:

My article "An Archive of Silences: Postcolonial Readability of the Ottoman Turkish Novel" has just been published in Journal of World Literature!

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It's wonderful to see this project come to fruition. I am honored to be among its contributors. Print copies are now awaiting their readers, so go ahead and order yours!

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’m elated to announce that I’m joining the English Department at UC Davis as Assistant Professor this Fall🎊
May 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Taught my last class today at NYU Shanghai. Returning to the US next week. Will share the news of the next exciting step soon but let me just say for now how fortunate and privileged I am to have met and worked with such amazing friends, students and colleagues here. Thank you!
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happening tomorrow!

If you would like to join us via Zoom, please remember to sign up here first:

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March 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Global Abolitionist Literature and the Ottoman Empire (MLA 2026) - Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

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Presentation: Global Abolitionist Literature and the Ottoman Empire (2026 MLA Annual Convention)
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March 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Applications due 1 Feb for this PhD scholarship - please get in touch if you'd like to discuss a dissertation that would fit, and come and work with me at Te Herenga Waka--Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand
*Please share widely!*

Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:

British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Some good news:

My article "An Archive of Silences: Postcolonial Readability of the Ottoman Turkish Novel" has just been published in Journal of World Literature!

brill.com/view/journal...
December 12, 2024 at 10:50 AM
🥳💜
December 9, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Shanghai’s cats deserve more global attention
November 30, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Exactly one year till we host a joint Australasian 18C and Romantic Studies conference here in Wellington, NZ - I'm hosting and very much hoping you will join us www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
Living / Building—A joint RSAA & David Nichol Smith Conference | Te Wāhanga Aronui / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Exploring eighteenth-century connections in today’s world.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 28, 2024 at 7:41 PM
In the spirit of Thanksgiving:

(from Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing)
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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I might be a tad too excited about this publication👏
November 24, 2024 at 12:10 PM
My most recent article, "The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery," has just been published online. Please let me know if you encounter any issues accessing it!
read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery: Domesticity and Slave Labor in Namık Kemal's İntibah
Abstract. This article makes a case for a critical engagement with the Ottoman institution of slavery and slave trade in its globalist rethinking of the rise of the novel. It argues that production of...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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An extremely attractive two-year postdoc at NYU Shanghai, open to philosophers, that will not appear in the usual venues for philosophers. Each year, one semester teaching in the core curriculum, one semester doing research. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
A neighborhood bookstore in Shanghai inviting greedy readers in:
November 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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This is the final day to submit a proposal for this amazing conference organized by Sarah Quesada and @aarthivadde.bsky.social. We are plotting something cool with @arifcmgl.bsky.social, Pelin Kıvrak, and Ipek Sahinler.
November 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Have a new account here because I lost access to the previous one. Let’s reconnect!
November 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM