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Merve Emre

Merve Emre
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at Oxford University and fellow of Worcester College. She holds a BA from Harvard and an MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale. She is the author of two books: Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press); and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday), which investigates the strange, secret history of personality testing. Her essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, The Walrus, Bookforum, Boston Review, The Baffler, n+1, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two sons.


Merve Emre: When Elena Ferrante is Your Editor

"Part of me wishes I had never pursued her."
January 14, 2020  By Merve Emre
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What Kind of Personality Type Was Truman Capote?

Merve Emre on the Berkeley Researchers Determined to Unlock the Secrets of Creativity
September 5, 2018  By Merve Emre
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How the US Leveraged the Love of Fulbright Scholars like Sylvia Plath

When Romance Becomes a Geopolitical Transaction
December 6, 2017  By Merve Emre
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