1946 (age 77–78) Cyprus (Current residence University Park, PA)
Occupation
Professor Scholar Editor
Genre
World Literature Literature of the Americas Literary Theory
Subject
Postcolonialism Comparative Literature American Studies Modernism/Postmodernism
Spouse
Juana Celia Djelal
Djelal Kadir (born 1946 in a shepherds' village on the island of Cyprus) is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where he teaches literatures of the Americas, modernism, postmodernism, world literature, and classical and modern theory, and where he has been the recipient of departmental teaching awards and the College Distinguished Service Medal. He has published more than one hundred articles and is the author and editor of a dozen books on the Americas, globalization, world literature, postcolonialism, modernism and literary theory as well as editor of more than twenty special issues of literary periodicals. Kadir’s own poetry and scholarly works have been translated into Greek, Polish, Turkish, French, Arabic, and Spanish.
A regular lecturer at institutions around the world, Kadir lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with wife Juana Celia Djelal.
DjelalKadir (born 1946 in a shepherds' village on the island of Cyprus) is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State...
(2012). "Chapter 29. Bibliomigrancy". In D’haen, Theo; Damrosch, David; Kadir, Djelal (eds.). The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Routledge. p. 284...
Matahiva," In How Far is America from Here?, ed. Theo D'haen, Paul Giles, DjelalKadir and Lois Parkinson Zamora. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005, pp ...
imported over 1,000 Chinese books each year... Theo D'haen; David Damrosch; DjelalKadir, eds. (2011). The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Routledge...
Crisis and Renewal: 1300 - 1500 a Biographical Dictionary, 2001, p. 511 Djelal , Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As...
Routledge. pp. 159–160. ISBN 978-1-134-92978-8. Theo D'haen; David Damrosch; DjelalKadir (2011). The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Routledge. p. 45...
"Novel and Journalism: Strategic Interchanges". Eds. Mario J. Valdés & DjelalKadir. Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. 3 Vols. Vol...
University Press. doi:10.7312/hedb19334.7 Theo D'haen; David Damrosch; DjelalKadir, eds. (2011). The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Routledge...
Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. Eds. Mario J. Valdés & DjelalKadir. 3 vols. Oxford University Press, 2004: III, 251-257. Andreu, Alicia...
iberoamericana (in Spanish). 60 (168–169): 1185. ISSN 0034-9631 – via WorldCat. Kadir, Djelal (1977). Juan Carlos Onetti. Boston: Twayne Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 9780805763102...
of Latin America. A comparative History, ed. by Mario J. Valdés and DjelalKadir, Volume II: Institutional Modes and Cultural Modalities, Oxford: Oxford...
Roxane Gay – writer and editor Mark Harris – novelist and biographer DjelalKadir – literature academic Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet Emma Montgomery McRae...
'Perspective Attitude in World Literature'". In D'haen, Theo; Damrosch, David; Kadir, Djelal (eds.). The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Routledge. pp. 32–40...
Studies Special Issue: Globalization and World Literature. Guest Editor: DjelalKadir. Penn State Press. Vol. 41. No. 1. 2004: 101–115. "Spaces of Translatability...
Studies Association 22–24 May 2003. Edited by Theo D'haen, Paul Giles, DjelalKadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, Series: TextxeT. Studies in Comparative Literature...
moving to Argentina. Biography portal Argentina portal Mario J. Valdés; DjelalKadir (2004). Literary Cultures of Latin America : a Comparative History: Institutional...
Reith in The Atlantic (in English) About the word hinternational, coined by Urzidil - an essay by DjelalKadir in World Literature Today (in English)...
Crisis and Renewal: 1300–1500 a Biographical Dictionary, 2001, p. 511 Kadir, Djelal (1992). "IV: Charting the Conquest". Columbus and the Ends of the Earth:...
1998: Macuro. 1996: Miserere mei, Citas inocentes. Valdés, Mario J.; Kadir, Djelal (2004). Literary Cultures of Latin America : a Comparative History....
" California Historical Society Quarterly 9 (March and June 1930). Kadir, Djelal. "Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now." Review of International...
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