Neriman Kuyucu Norman

E-mail : neriman.kuyucusabanciuniv.edu

Areas of Interest :

Contemporary Anglophone Literature, Diaspora & Migration Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Studies

Publications :

Book

Kuyucu Norman, Neriman, Muslimness in contemporary literary imaginations: twenty-first century Muslim women's writing in the diaspora, New York: Routledge, October 2025

Before SU Publications:

“Towards a New Mode of Reading Muslim Diaspora Writing: Muslimness and the Homing Desire in Abu Jaber’sCrescent and Shafak’s Saint of Incipient Insanities.” Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas. Edited by Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly. Routledge: London, NY. August 2022. 394-404.

“A Response to Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies.” ReadRespond: Literature/History/Human Rights. The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. March 19th, 2021.https://site.uit.no/readrespond/past-events/

“Muslim: A Novel.” Review of “Muslim:” A Novel by Zahia Rahmani. World Literature Today 93. 3 (Summer 2019). 93-94.

Conferences:

“Living in the Interstices as a Muslim: Tanais’s Bright Lines (2015).” The Twenty- first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sorbonne Universite , Faculte des Lettres. Paris, 2023.

“’You are Muslim by birth, by default’: Making Meaning of a Muslim Self in the Diaspora in Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies.” Accepted for the 5th World Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (SHCONF). Milan, 2022.

“‘What Kind of a Muslim Are You?’: The Construction of Transnational Muslim Subjectivity in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Washington DC, 2019.

“A Cross-Cultural Autobiography: Selma Ekrem’s Unveiled.” The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Las Vegas, 2018.

“Imaginative Empathy in Arab-American Writing.” College Language Association Chicago, 2018.

“Re-imagining the Subaltern in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account.” Peripheral Matters, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, 2017.