Near and Middle East Section, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Lecturer (education) in Near and Middle East Studies

Centre for Ottoman Studies

Member

Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

Member

London Middle East Institute (LMEI)

Member

Name:

Dr Keya Anjaria

Email address:

ka13@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

(020 7898) 4587

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

412

Academic Support Hours:

Thu 1-2, Fri 10-11 TERM-TIME BOOKING (SEE BIO)

Biography

Office hours by appointment via Google Calendar

Programmes Convened

• MA Comparative Literature (2020)
• MA Comparative Literature (2021)
• MA Comparative Literature (2022)
• MA Comparative Literature (Africa / Asia) (2018)
• MA Comparative Literature (Africa / Asia) (2019)
• MA Cultural Studies (2019)
• MA Cultural Studies (2020)

Modules Taught

• Comparative Literature: Methodology and Critique
• Contemporary Middle East Fiction A: Identity and Belonging
• Contemporary Middle East Fiction B: Race, Gender and Resistance
• Dissertation in Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies
• Independent Study Project in Languages and Cultures of Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia
• Intersecting Worlds: Race and Gender in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel
• Selected Topics in 20th Century Turkish Literature
• Twentieth Century Turkish Literature
• Understanding Texts
• World Literature (PG)

PhD Students supervised

• Ahmet Atas, The Politics of Melancholia in Kurdish Diasporic Novels

Articles

Anjaria, Keya (2015) 'The Dandy and the Coup: Politics of Literature in the post-1980 Turkish Novel, Üç Beş Kişi'. Middle Eastern Literatures, (17) 3, pp 263-282.

Book Chapters

Anjaria, Keya (2021) 'Monolingualising the Multilingual Ottoman Novel: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi'. In: Hiddleston, Jane and Ouyang, Wen-Chin, (eds.), Multilingual Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, pp 111-126.

Anjaria, Keya (2016) 'Rethinking Istanbul: Women and the City in Perihan Mağden's Two Girls'. In: Singh, Jaspal and O'Neil, Mary Lou, (eds.), Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey. New York: Peter Lang.

Translations

Anjaria, Keya (2016) 'Yaşar Kemal (1925-2015):'Pens'' Middle Eastern Literatures, (18) 3, pp 225-230.

Conference Items

Anjaria, Keya (2019) 'Forging the Spirit of Gezi: Perihan Mağden's Two Girls and Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book' In: BATAS Symposium / Turkish Area Studies Review, May 2019, Cambridge UK.

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