Metacritic Journal


for Comparative Studies and Theory

ISSN 2457 – 8827
Simla Doğangün

Simla Doğangün

Simla Doğangün completed her Ph.D on a comparative study of cosmopolitanism in contemporary Anglo-Indian and Turkish novels at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) of the University of Amsterdam. She has published on English, Anglo-Indian, and Turkish literature. In 2021, she participated in The Institute for World Literature, organized by Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include comparative and world literature studies, contemporary women’s writing, and cultural cosmopolitanism. Her research on Elif Şafak’s fiction as cultural commodity in the global capital has been published in Turkish Literature as World Literature (2021) by Bloomsbury. Her forthcoming work on a comparative study of Conrad’s and Pamuk’s narratives will appear in the Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad in 2023. She is also co-editing the special issue of The Conradian on Joseph Conrad and world literature. Currently, she works in the Department of English Language and Literature at Marmara University.