Bahriye Kemal
Bahriye Kemal is a lecturer in postcolonial and contemporary literatures at the University of Kent. Her teaching and research engage with postcolonial and partition studies, comparative Ottoman and British imperialism, spatial studies, migration, comparative literature, Postcolonial Eastern Mediterranean, postcolonial islands, solidarity and activism. Her articles on anticolonial gendered nationalism, the postcolonial partitioned diaspora, and the East Mediterranean have appeared in various...See more
Bahriye Kemal is a lecturer in postcolonial and contemporary literatures at the University of Kent. Her teaching and research engage with postcolonial and partition studies, comparative Ottoman and British imperialism, spatial studies, migration, comparative literature, Postcolonial Eastern Mediterranean, postcolonial islands, solidarity and activism. Her articles on anticolonial gendered nationalism, the postcolonial partitioned diaspora, and the East Mediterranean have appeared in various postcolonial journals. She is co-editor of Visa Stories: Experiences between Law and Migration (2013), and Nicosia beyond barriers: Voices from a divided city (2019). She is currently writing a book on the postcolonial Mediterranean, with focus on literature and arts from Cyprus, Palestine, Syria and beyond. See less
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