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Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
Graduate Program Coordinator
Latest News
- Poetry as Political Currency: UW Alumni Explores Ottoman Literary Traditions in Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Series (May 8, 2025)
- Deniz Türker Discusses the Legacy of Yıldız Palace in Engaging Talk (March 5, 2025)
- Didem Havlioğlu Delivers the 2024 Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture (April 30, 2024)
- Events in the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program (March 7, 2024)
- Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award (February 28, 2024)
Related Research
- Sex in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul. In: Wiesner-Hanks ME, Kuefler M, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. v. 3. Cambridge University Press; 2024:191-209.
- "Gazel as Genre among the Ottoman Ruling Elite" in Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature edited by Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal (New York: Routledge 2023)
- "An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire," co-written with Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, in Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2023)
- "Edebiyatı Dizgeye Getirmek: Köprülü’nün İlk Darbesi Olarak “Türk Edebiyatı Tarihinde Usul" Usulden Yönteme M. Fuad Köprülü'nün Edebiyat Tarihçiliği (İstanbul: VakıfBank KültürYayınları 2023), 17-30.
- “Istanbul: City of Men,” in Brill Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu (Leiden: Brill 2021), 62-85
- "Kâfiri Mihrabda Eğrilik: Bakî’nin Mektubu Muhibbî’nin Beyti (Turkish: Crooked Altar of the Infidel: A Letter from the Poet Baki on a Couplet by Muhibbi)” Journal of Turkish Studies 54 (December 2020), 235-248.
- “Male Discourses of Gender and Sexuality: How History Omits the Ottoman Elites' Love of Literature.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 133–145.
- "Early, Yet Already Late: Literary Musings on Historical Questions." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 7 no. 1, 2020, p. 55-57. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/762063.
- "Generic Desires: Homoerotic Love in Ottoman Turkish Poetry," in Mediterranean Crossings: Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity (10-18th Centuries) edited by Umberto Grassi (Rome, Italy: Viella English Series, 2020), 43-63.
- Aguirre- Mandujano, Oscar, "Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court" (2018). PhD Dissertation