Research Fellow

Nicholas Bredie

2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow

At the time of his fellowship, Nicholas Bredie was a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature and Creative Writing at USC. He is the author of Not Constantinople (Dzanc Books), a novel based on his three years living in Istanbul, Turkey. The book was named one of the best of 2017 by The Morning News and received praise from Viet Thanh Nguyen, T. C. Boyle, Paul La Farge, and Aimee Bender. With Joanna Howard, Bredie was the co-translator of Frédéric Boyer’s novella Cows (Noemi Press). His fiction and non-fiction writing has been published widely, appearing in The BelieverThe Brooklyn RailFairy Tale ReviewOpium, and Puerto del Sol, among others. He earned a BA in Philosophy at Columbia University in 2005, an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University in 2009, an MA in English Literature at USC in 2018, and expects to defend his dissertation at USC during the 2021-2022 academic year.