Dr Keya Anjaria

Keya Anjaria is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Keya received a PhD in Middle East Studies from SOAS, University of London; her thesis was on the mid-20th-century Turkish novel.

Keya’s research draws from the fields of comparative literature, world literature and postcolonial studies.  Her current research considers the Turkish novel in global contexts, exploring the cross-cultural dialectics of contemporary novels and new possibilities for world literary studies. One of her current projects focuses on global, post-millennial iterations of feminist crime fiction, spanning Turkish, anglophone global south, translation and mainstream British novels. Keya’s other research projects include work on modernity and the novel form, pedagogy in the humanities, and the understanding of the postimperial cities, London and Istanbul, through postcolonial lenses.

Modern Turkish Literature; Comparative Literature; World Literature; the Novel; Turkish Language and Culture