Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Michigan
2015 Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor
MI
48109
United States
ABOUT
Berkay Uluç (he/him) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Critical Translation Studies at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and his M.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University, Istanbul. His research centers around literary and translational modernity in the Ottoman Mediterranean, focusing on Turkish and Arabic contexts. His other research interests include comparative modernisms, translation studies, book history, world literature, postcolonial studies, queer studies, and aesthetics and politics.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modern
Ottoman Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Translation
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
The Levant
Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean Countries
Egypt
Specialties
Translation
Aesthetics & Politics
Late Ottoman Literary Culture
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Ottoman (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Armenian (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2017
| Cultural Studies
| Sabanci University
BA
| 2015
| Political Science and International Relations
| Bogazici University
Abstracts
Theorizing Aesthetics: Late Ottoman Literary Epistemologies and the Question of Race
Rethinking Arabic-Turkish Literary Contact: 19th-century Robinson Crusoe Translations
Translingual Registers of Ottoman Modernity
