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Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
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Associate Teaching Professor
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Related Research
- "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.
- Jeon, Minsoo, "Translation as Rewriting: Yazıcızāde ‘Āli’s Political Use of Poetry in Tevārīḫ-i Āl-i Selçuk" (2022). Thesis.
- “Istanbul: City of Men,” in Brill Companion to Early Modern Istanbul, edited by Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu (Leiden: Brill 2021), 62-85
- “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
- Facer, Christopher, "Holding Multiple Nationalism: Perspectives of an Albanian Ottoman" (2017). Thesis.
- Seviner, Zeynep, "Blue Dreams, Black Disillusions: Literary Market and Modern Authorship in the Late Ottoman Empire" (2015). PhD Dissertation.
- Salmaner, Müge, "The Bittersweet Taste of the Past: Reading Food in Armenian Literature in Turkish" (2014). PhD Dissertation.