Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic
Emre speaks to the British Library in 2022
Merve Emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (2018), and has published essays and articles in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.[1][2][3]
In 2023, Emre was named the Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University as well as director of the school's Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism.[4]
^"Merve Emre Author Page". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
MerveEmre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in...
son David Rieff and features an introduction by Turkish-American writer MerveEmre. On Women includes essays and interviews with Sontag about feminism, beauty...
"explores the kind of tumult and grief that almost defies language," while MerveEmre for The New York Times Book Review observed it "transforms all that is...
September 1998. Retrieved 10 November 2021. Reviewed 23 Aug. 2021 by MerveEmre in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/simon...
Women ISBN 9781250876867 (edited by David Rieff, with an introduction by MerveEmre) Sontag published numerous essays and reviews in The New York Review of...
India Daisy Rockwell Tomb of Sand रेत समाधि Tilted Axis Press Frank Wynne MerveEmre Petina Gappah Viv Groskop Jeremy Tiang Shortlist Bora Chung South Korea...
Man Who Loved Children'", The New York Times Book Review, 6 June 2010. "MerveEmre, 'Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can Change'". Vulture, 30 September 2021...
Williams, John A. (2023). The Man Who Cried I Am. Foreword by Ishmael Reed. Introduction by MerveEmre. New York: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-761-1....
University Taner Edis, Professor of physics at the Truman State University MerveEmre, Associate professor of American literature at Oxford University Ali Erdemir...
Birincimiz, Merve Karadeniz ." Karabük Gündem (in Turkish). 12 June 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024. "Uluslararası Yaşar Doğu, Vehbi Emre ve Hamit Kaplan...
Philippa Williams Languages & Literature: Marc Alexander, Emma Bond, MerveEmre, Martin Paul Eve, Joseph Moshenska In 2018 the prizes were awarded in...
queers, women, immigrants, and a range of racial minorities." Likewise, MerveEmre has claimed that Rita Felski and other scholars associated with postcritique...
Years after John Guillory’s Cultural Capital" (April 2023), co-edited by MerveEmre and Justin Sider. (ed. with Judith Butler and Kendall Thomas) What's Left...
of What Are You Going Through in The New York Times, August 31, 2020. MerveEmre’s review of What Are You Going Through in The New Yorker, September 7,...
"rediscovered masterpiece, a raw, witty, and utterly original novel." Emre, Merve (2023-06-05). "Back From the Dead: The Afterlives of Susan Taubes". The...
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism Jan 5 Elaine Blair — — MerveEmre — — Becca Rothfeld — — Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism Alma Guillermoprieto...
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