An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage

"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)  

This book chapter presents translation of a chapter on sexuality and marriage from an early 16th century collection of sexually explicit stories and jokes and provides an analysis of the chapter from the perspectives of history and genre.

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