Arif Camoglu

Arif Camoglu

Assistant Professor of English

Arif Camoglu's  scholarly interests include global eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, critical theory, poetry and poetics, and empire with a focus on Anglo-Ottoman encounters. Prior to joining Davis, he taught at NYU Shanghai, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Colgate University. He has published articles on the topics of global romanticism, world literature, and imperial sovereignty. Currently he is at work on a book manuscript that weaves a dialogue between the Ottoman and British writers of the romantic period, examining their figurative and literal engagements with imperial power. He is also among the editors of a forthcoming volume on global literature and culture of the romantic era.
Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • B.A., Bogazici University
Honors and Awards
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2023
  • Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, Colgate University, 2021
  • The FCHI Postdoctoral Fellowship, Emory University, 2021 (Declined)
  • A. Owen Aldridge Prize for Best Comparative Essay by a Graduate Student, 2020
Courses
  • ENL 149: The Gothic
Publications
  • "The Novel and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery: Domesticity and Slave Labor in Namık Kemal’s İntibah.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 57.2 (2024): 145-161.
  • “Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism and the Ottoman Empire: Re-reading The Turkish Embassy Letters.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 36.1 (2024): 139-43.
  • “Archive of Silences: Ottoman Literature and Postcolonial Studies.” Journal of World Literature, 9.4 (2024): 481-501.
  • “White Revolutionary Subjecthood in Percy B. Shelley’s Laon and Cythna.” Essays in Romanticism, 30.2 (2023): 187-99.
  • “Plague, Paradox, and the Ends of Community: Defoe’s Epidemiological Orientalism.” Eighteenth- Century Studies, 56.4 (2023): 583-99.
  • “Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, 1. 1 (2022): 5–12.
  • “‘Supreme in Ruin:’ Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins.” European Romantic Review, 32.2 (2021): 145-61.
  • “Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Şeyh Galib and Giorgio Agamben.” Comparative Literature Studies, 58.1 (2021): 1-22. (Recipient of the 2020 A. Owen Aldridge Prize).
  • “Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 64.3 (2018): 431-57.