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Associate Professor
Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
Graduate Program Coordinator
Latest News
- Farhat G. Ziadeh Distinguished Lectures 2026 Presents Shawkat Toorawa (Yale University) (May 4, 2026)
- Second Cycle of Persian Literature Residency Concludes with Vibrant
Community Events (November 17, 2025) - Didem Havlioğlu Delivers the 2024 Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture (April 30, 2024)
- Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major (April 10, 2024)
- Events in the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program (March 7, 2024)
Related Research
- Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijan Jalali. Translated by Adeeba Shahid Talukder and Aria Fani. Toronto: Asemana Books, 2025.
- 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.
- Aria Fani, Kevin L. Schwartz, Samuel Hodgkin, "Pathways to Persotopias," PMLA 139.9 (2024): 299-306.
- The Shadow Texts of National History: Poetic Participation in Iran and Afghanistan, Philological Encounters
- Aria Fani and Schwartz, KL. Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century (Special issue), Iranian Studies 55.3 (2022): 603-790.
- "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.
- Naomi Sokoloff, "What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew" in the Jewish Book Council's "Paper Brigade Daily"
- "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.
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.