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ABOUT
A native of Istanbul, Turkey, Esra Tasdelen received her B.A. degree in Social and Political Sciences at Sabanci University in 2003. She received her M.A. degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago in 2005 and her Ph.D degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2014. Her dissertation, “Literature As A Mirror Of History: A Comparative Study Of The Historical Fictions of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüoğlu (1870-1927) and Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914)” is a comparative analysis of the relationship between literature and history in Modern Turkish and Modern Arab literatures.
Among her areas of research interest are Late Ottoman Intellectual History (Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries), Modern Turkish Literature, Modern Arabic Literature, Print Capitalism in the Middle East, Gender and Sexuality, Comparative Literature, Turkish Nationalism, Arab Nationalism.
Discipline
Language
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Intel Hist In Late Ottoman Emp
Gender Studies In Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Modernization
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
German (advanced)
Turkish
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| University of Chicago
MA
| 2005
| ME Stds
| U of Chicago
BA
| 2003
| Faculty of Social Sciences
| Sabanci University
Abstracts
Dressing the Ottoman Lady: Fashion and Women's Rights in the Ottoman Journal "Mahasin"
Historical fiction as a tool of Literary Modernity: The Novels of Ahmet Hikmet and Jurji Zaydan
From ‘Abbasa Ukht al-Rashid’ to ‘Abbase Sultan’: An analysis of Jurji Zaydan’s historical fiction in Turkish translation
Wandering among Thorns and Roses: Themes and modes of narration in Ahmet Hikmet Müftüoglu's 'Haristan ve Gülistan'
The Human Body as Metaphor: Fragmentation and Catastrophe in Ahmad Saadawy's 'Frankenstein in Baghdad':
