Bryn Mawr College

Azade Seyhan

Fairbank Professor in the Humanities; Professor of German and Comparative Literature

Ph.D., University of Washington

Office: Thomas 135

610.526.5382

aseyhan@brynmawr.edu

Azade Seyhan is the Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr Director of the program in Comparative Literature, and adjunct professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism (University of California, 1992); Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton, 2001); and most recently, Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context  (MLA, 2008). She has lectured extensively on German Idealism and Romanticism, critical theory, exile narratives, Turkish-German literature, and the theory of the novel.

Seyhan's most recent publication is the lead article "What is Romanticism, and where did it come from?" in The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism (Fall 2009). Her recent lectures include "Cultural Memory as Neurosis in Exile Narratives," given at the Center for Social Sciences at Bryn Mawr College in February 2009, "The Crisis of Modernity and the Efflorescence of Memory in A. H. Tanpinar and Orhan Pamuk" at Princeton University in April 2009, and the keynote speech, "Competing Imperatives of Cultural Translatability: Social Imaginary, Politics, Affect," delivered at the conference on "Alternative Spaces" at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in June 2009.

Courses in Philosophy 2009-2010:

Philosophical Approaches to Criticism

Courses Regularly Taught in Philosophy:

Readings in German Intellectual History

Philosophical Approaches to Criticism