Participant Info
- First Name
- Esra
- Last Name
- Tasdelen
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- ebirinci@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- North Central College
- Website URL
- https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/etasdelen
- Keywords
- Middle Eastern Studies, Ottoman history, Turkish Literature, Arabic Literature
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
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.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- esrachicago
- Country Focus
- Turkey
- Expertise by Geography
- Middle East
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Higher Ed, Politics, Religion, World War I
