Nâlân Erbil
Position title: Teaching Assistant Professor
Email: erbil@wisc.edu
Address:
840 Van Hise Hall
As an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar, Nâlân Erbil teaches literature, migration, and Turkish language and culture courses. She has concurrent research projects, one of which theorizes an Ottoman and Turkish literary critical-ethical method implicit in the concept and practices of edeb(iyat). Her other project investigates Germanness in Turkish and Turkishness in German literary productions through comparatively analyzing multi-genre texts written in and translated to Turkish by Turkish and Turkish German authors.
In addition to teaching and research, she has served as the Pedagogy Director of The Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute and the federally funded Turkish Flagship Language Initiative from 2020 to 2024.
Growing up in the rural southwestern Turkey, she identifies as a first-generation college graduate and academic. Her ancestors were nomadic goatherders (yörüks) from the West Taurus Mountains in Anatolia who became settled two generations ago.