Literary Criticism

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Naomi B. Sokoloff
Professor
Director of Modern Hebrew and Israel Studies Program

Latest News

Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major (April 10, 2024)
Professor Naomi Sokoloff's New Edited Volume, Since 1948 (June 6, 2020)
Gert Borg on Arabic Studies in Europe and "Gift Called Philology" (November 8, 2018)
Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies (March 21, 2018)

Related Research

"Gazel as Genre among the Ottoman Ruling Elite" in Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature edited by Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal (New York: Routledge 2023)
"An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire," co-written with Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, in Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2023)
"Edebiyatı Dizgeye Getirmek: Köprülü’nün İlk Darbesi Olarak “Türk Edebiyatı Tarihinde Usul" Usulden Yönteme M. Fuad Köprülü'nün Edebiyat Tarihçiliği (İstanbul: VakıfBank KültürYayınları 2023), 17-30.
Jeon, Minsoo, "Translation as Rewriting: Yazıcızāde ‘Āli’s Political Use of Poetry in Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i Selçuk" (2022). Thesis.
Aria Fani, "The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafi'i-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry.” Iranian Studies, 54.1-2 (2021): 95-125.
"Kâfiri Mihrabda Eğrilik: Bakî’nin Mektubu Muhibbî’nin Beyti (Turkish: Crooked Altar of the Infidel: A Letter from the Poet Baki on a Couplet by Muhibbi)” Journal of Turkish Studies 54 (December 2020), 235-248.
“Male Discourses of Gender and Sexuality: How History Omits the Ottoman Elites' Love of Literature.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 133–145.
"Early, Yet Already Late: Literary Musings on Historical Questions." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 7 no. 1, 2020, p. 55-57. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/762063.
Naomi Sokoloff, “The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, The Zookeeper’s Wife and See Under: Love.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, edited by Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave, 2020).
Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making, eds. Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff (SUNY Press, 2020).