Merve Emre

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago UP, 2017), The Personality Brokers (Doubleday, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, and the Spectator; The Ferrante Letters (Columbia UP, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature; and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (Norton, 2021). She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.