• 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. 

    My next project, The Global Upaniṣads, examines how ancient Indian philosophy influenced modern global thought. Both projects reflect an abiding interest in the non-aligned world. Curiosity about that world—before, during, and after European hegemony—motivates 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.  I hold a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University. 

    • Ph.D. Yale University (2019)
    • B.A. University of Pennsylvania (2014)
    • “Beyond Epistemic Pluralism.” Forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature,
    • Introduction to and translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “Letter to a Young Girl in Antalya.” With Selin Ünlüönen. PMLA 138.2 (2023): 356-361.
    • “Global Autofictional Flânerie.” Modernism/Modernity 29.2 (2022): 219-239. *Reprinted in M/m Print +.
    • “The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust.”  MLQ 82.4 (2021): 473-498. *Reprinted in the Stanford Arcade Colloquy.
    • “Ekphrastic Temporality.” New Literary History 52.2 (2021): 239-260. *Winner of the Ralph Cohen Prize.
    • “Traveling Realisms, Shared Modernities, Eternal Moods: The Uses of Chekhov in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep.” Adaptation 12.1 (2019): 12-26.
    • “Hamid Dabashi’s Persophilia.” Critical Inquiry 49.1 (2019): 249-251.
    • “Fathers, Sons, and the West in Orhan Pamuk’s Turkey. The New Yorker (2017).
    • “Ciudad Juárez in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666: Mexico’s Violent Cradle of Modernity.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 57.4 (2016): 402-416.
    • “The Readymade Novel.” The New Republic (2015): 82-83. [Translated into Spanish in Revista Nexos; Portuguese in Antunes; Italian in Grafias; and Tamil in Padhaakai]
       
    • Introduction to Comparative Literature
    • Cosmopolitanism
    • World Literature
    • Consciousness and the Novel
    • Ralph Cohen Prize, New Literary History, 2020
    • Public Humanities Fellowship, Trinity University, 2022-3