Merve Emre
Literary critic and academic
Merve Emre is a Turkish-American literary critic and academic. She wrote The Personality Brokers, a book about the origins of Myers-Briggs and personality testing.
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Turkish Born in Adana, Turkey
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About Merve Emre
Merve Emre is an author, academic and literary critic. She has taught at McGill and Oxford, and she moved to Wesleyan University in 2023. She published Paraliterary in 2017. The Personality Brokers followed in 2018 and looks at how the Myers-Briggs test came about and how personality testing began. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. She earned an MPhil and a PhD at Yale University.