Nesrin Karavar

NESRIN KARAVAR is an associate researcher in Argentine Literature at the National University of Cuyo (2024-2027) and a researcher at ADHUC–Centre for Research on Theory, Gender, and Sexuality. She also teaches Turkish language and literature courses at the University of Barcelona. Her academic work focuses on medieval Muslim mysticism, especially Rumi, 19th-century Ottoman mystical poetry, with particular attention to the work of Princess Adile Sultan, and how Cervantes' years of captivity in the Ottoman Empire influenced his literature, particularly through the female characters in his works, and how this experience reflects an intercultural dialogue. She works with unpublished notes by Borges entitled “The Mystics of Islam”, which she has the rights to publish with the support of the Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation. This research was published under the title Borges más allá del orientalismo (Borges Beyond Orientalism) by Mardulce Ediciones (Buenos Aires, 2025), with a prologue and coordination by the researcher, including contributions from prestigious international specialists in the work of Borges. She also works with the unpublished poems and paintings of Bibi Zogbe, the first painter of the Arab-Ottoman migration in Argentina. Her research focuses on the construction of the identity of women from this immigration through the work of Bibi Zogbe. She is a translator from Spanish into Turkish. 

Research Areas

Language as Culture and Interculturality; Specialized Translation; Sufism; Female Mystical Literature; Gender and Comparative Literature; Primitive and Medieval Dance.