Azade Seyhan
Professor Emeritus of German
Academic Departments
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington
Areas of Focus
German Classicism and Romanticism, cultural diversity in the modern German society, philosophical approaches to criticism, women’s writing, modern exile, migrancy, and diasporas.
Biography
Azade Seyhan is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism (University of California Press, 1992); Writing Outside the Nation (Princeton University Press, 2001); Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Contest (MLA, 2008), which was translated into Turkish in 2014. Her most recent book is Heinrich Heine and the World Literary Map (Springer, January 2019).