CURRICULUM VITAE
Victoria
Rowe Holbrook
2007
E-mail:
vrholbrook@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
1985
M.A. 1979
B.A. 1977
RESEARCH
LANGUAGES
Near-native fluency in Turkish. Reading knowledge of Ottoman Turkish,
Persian, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Ancient
Greek.
MAJOR HONORS
2006
2005 American Philosophical Society Research Award
2004 Fulbright Research Award
2003 American Research Institute in
1996 The Turkish Studies Association M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize (for The Unreadable Shores of Love)
1994-95 American Research
Institute in
1993-94 Social Science Research Council Advanced Research Grant
1992- Honorary Lifetime Fellow, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi
Society,
1990 The
Independent Foreign Fiction Award,
1987-2005 Various research
leaves, sabbaticals, and travel grants awarded by
1987-88 Fulbright Council for International Exchange
of Scholars Islamic Civilization Program
Languages Research Award
1985-87 Mellon Post-doctoral Teaching and Research
Fellowship,
1978
1977-82 Various fellowships
awarded by
PUBLICATIONS
Spiritual Couplets Commentary by Kenan Rifâî. Translation from Turkish. In progress, 657pp.
Rana by Osman Necmi Gürmen. Novel translated from Turkish. Forthcoming, 457pp.
Beauty and Love by Şeyh Galip. 2 vols. Verse translation
of the eighteenth-century Turkish romance and new edition of the text, with
introductions and key.
High Heels by Murathan Mungan. Novel translated from Turkish. Forthcoming, 527pp.
“Hüsn-ü
Aşk’a Önsöz,”
Yasak Meyve
12 (January/February 2005), 52-59.
"Concealed
Facts, Translation, and the Turkish Literary Past," in translations: (re)shaping of literature and culture,
ed. Saliha Paker.
“Poetry
in Translation,” in Cultural Horizons: A
Festschrift in Honor of Talat S. Halman,
ed. Jayne L. Warner.
“
“Oceanic
Feeling, Narcissism, and the Post-Classical Image,” in The Ottomans and the Sea. Oriente Moderno XX (LXXXI) , n.s. (2000), 245-254.
"Alegorinin Ölümü, Hüsn-ü Aşk'ın Özgünlüğü," in Osmanlı Divan Şiiri Üzerine Metinler
(Texts on Ottoman Divan Poetry), ed. Mehmet Kalpaklı.
“The Intellectual and the State: Poetry in
“In
the Mirror of European Fantasy: Greeks and Turks,” Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 23:2 (Fall 1999), 5-11. Reprint.
"Batı'nın Tahayyülünde
Yunanlılar ve Türkiyeliler" (Greeks and Turks in the Western
Imagination), Defter 32 (Winter
1998), 55-63.
"Klasik-Sonrası İmge, Okyanussal Benlik" (The
Post-Classical Image, The Oceanic Self), Toplum ve Bilim 70
(Fall 1996), 199-214.
"Alegorinin Ölümü, Hüsn-ü Aşk'ın Özgünlüğü" (The Death of Allegory, The Originality of Beauty and Love), Defter 27 (Spring 1996), 65-80.
"Muhalefetin Kimliği, Kimliğin Muhalefeti" (The
Identity of Opposition, The Opposition of Identity), Defter 26 (Winter 1996), 10-32.
Collaborative interview with Edward Said by Meltem Ahıska, Ruşen Çakır,
Müge Gürsoy, Victoria
Holbrook, and Orhan Koçak.
"Mazmun mu
Klişe yoksa Devralınmış Mazmun Kavramı mı? Galib'in Hayalinde Renk ve Yorumu" (Is it the Trope
which is Cliché, or the Received Concept of Trope? Color and its
Interpretation in Galip's Work) in Şeyh
Galip Kitabı.
The Unreadable Shores
of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance.
Major reviews: Giampiero
Bellingeri, Annali di ca’ foscari, XXXV, 3 1996
and Edebiyat n.s.9:2 1998; Sarah G. Moment Atiş, International
Journal of Middle East Studies 8:1 1996; Walter G. Andrews, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin
19:1 1995; Nüket Esen, Gösteri (July 1994).
Turkish translation: Aşkın Okunmaz Kıyıları: Türk Modernitesi ve Mistik Romans, trans. Erol Köroğlu & Engin Kılıç. Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları 1998. 290 pp.
Reviews: Ali Tökel, Dergah 109 (March 1999). Selim Kuru, Virgül 15 (January 1999).
"Philology
went down to the Crossroads of Modernity to meet Orientalism,
Nationalism, and... Ottoman Poetry," New Perspectives on
"Who
is Beauty? Subjectivity and Interpretation," in God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty, a Festschrift in honor of
Annemarie Schimmel, ed. Alma Giese & Peter Brugel.
"Rumi,
Galib, and the Fortress of Forms," in Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: The Heritage
of Rumi, ed. Amin Banani,
Richard Hovannisian & Georges Sabagh,
11th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Biennial Conference Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge UP
1994, 178-197.
(Guest Ed. + Intro.) "Papers of the Second Graduate
Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Language Arts," TSAB 17:2 (Fall 1993), 43-135.
"A Technology of Reference: Divan and anti-Divan in
the Reception of a Turkish Poet," Edebiyat NS 4 (1993), 49-61.
"Imagery,
Ideology and Representation," TASG
News (Newsletter of the Turkish Area Study Group,
"Ibn 'Arabi and Ottoman Dervish
Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order,"
Parts One and Two, Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn `Arabi Society IX (1991), 18-35 and XII (1993), 15-33.
"Diverse
Tastes in the Spiritual Life: Textual Play in the Diffusion of Rumi's Order,"
in The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, ed.
Leonard Lewisohn.
"A
Postmodernist Turkish Novel," in Contacts
Between Cultures:
"Imagery,
Ideology and Representation," Gözlem 20 (1992), 4-6.
"Originality and Ottoman Poetics: In the Wilderness
of the New," Journal of the American
Oriental Society 112:3 (1992), 440-54.
(Guest Ed. + Intro.) Papers of "The Graduate Student
Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Literary Arts," TSAB 15:1 (1991), 64-132.
(Guest Ed. + Intro.) Papers of "The Graduate Student
Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Literary Arts," TSAB 14:2 (1990), 167-233.
The
Reviews: John Updike, The New Yorker, September 2, 1991; Paul Berman, The New Republic, August 1991; Jay Parini, The New York
Times Book Review, May 19, 1991; Christopher Lehman-Haupt,
The New York Times, April 29, 1991; Savkar Altinel, The Times Literary Supplement, October
12-18, 1990.
(Article)
"The Future of Turkish Literary Studies and Proficiency: A Different Set
of Guidelines," American Association
of Teachers of Turkish Newsletter No. 8 (1990), 26-30.
"Galib's Beauty and
Love: The Ultimate Romance." Doctoral Diss. Princeton 1985, 618 pp.
SERVICE ON EDITORIAL
2006- Advisory Board, Cunda Translation Workshop
2004- Advisory Committee member, Rumi Institute at Near Eastern University, Mersin/Lefkoşa
2003- Middle Eastern Literatures (book series, Routlege)
1999-The Journal of Turkish Literature (
1998-2004 Virgül (
REVIEWS
Orientalism by Edward Said (in Turkish translation), Virgül 28 (March 2000), 6-10.
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (in Turkish translation), Virgül 7 (April 1998), 32-35.
Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling by Margaret A. Mills, Association for the Advancement of Central
Asian Research Bulletin
Turkish Sampler: Writings for all Readers by Müge Galin, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 26 (1992), 240.
The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918 by Fanny Davis, Journal of the American Oriental Society 111:3 (1991), 605-606.
Tales Alive in
Never Pass This Way
Again
by Gene LePere, The
New York Times Book Review,
Kings of Love: The History and Poetry of the Ni'matullahi Sufi Order of Iran by Nasrollah Pourjavady and Peter Lamborn Wilson, JAOS 107:2 (1987), 374.
A Persian Sufi Poem:
Vocabulary and Terminology by Bo Utas, JAOS 107:3 (1987), 529-530.
Mystical Poems of
Rumi,
trans. A. J. Arberry, JAOS 107:3 (1987), 530.
TRANSLATIONS FOR
TURKISH CINEMA
2005 (screenplay) Solo by Ziya Öztan and Tarık Akan.
2002 (play, produced in 2002
at La Mama theater in
2001 (Film treatment) Mr. J’s Point by Rüstem Batur.
1999 with Aron
Aji (play, produced at the
1998 (Full shooting script) Via Beyrut,
screenplay and dir. Derviş Zaim. In production.
(Dialogue list) Journey to the Sun, screenplay and dir. Yeşim
Ustaoğlu. Released.
(Screenplay) Ataturk, The Blonde Wolf by Atilla
İlhan.
(Screenplay) Stateless, screenplay and dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu.
1987 (Dialogue list) Somersault in a Coffin, screenplay and
dir. Derviş Zaim. Released.
(Treatment) Seashells on the
Steppe, screenplay and dir. Ahmet Ulucay.
CONSULTING and OTHER
ACTIVITIES
2001 Appeared in PBS 3-hour
documentary film “Islam: Empire of Faith,” dir. Robert Gardener.
1995 Translator from the Turkish for
Divan, a non-profit foundation for group translation of poetry, based in
1992
1992-present Consultant to
Stephanie Capparell, producer of the documentary
film, "Nazım Hikmet:
Living is a Beautiful Thing."
1991 Consultant to the
Pegasus Literary Prize Committee which awarded its prize to the Turkish
novelist Bilge Karasu for his Gece (Night, trans. Güneli Gün, Louisiana State
University Press 1994).
TEACHING
AT
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 1987-2005
Courses designed and
taught:
--Turkish
811, Seminar in Turkish & Ottoman Studies
TOPICS (listed in year when taught for the first time) 1998: Critical Approaches to Modernist Literature and Culture. 1997: International Modernism and the Turkish Second Modern. 1996: Modernism and Authenticity in Turkish Poetry. 1994: Literature and Culture of the Turkish Left. 1993: The Philosophical and the Fantastic: Ottoman Literature 1600-1800. 1992: Poetics of Change: Religion and Representation in Modern Turkish Culture. 1991: Sufism and Ottoman Intellectual Traditions. 1990: The Theory of the Other and the Turkish Novel.
--Turkish
721, Studies in Turkish & Ottoman Literature & Criticism
TOPICS
(listed when taught for the first time, not when repeated) 1999: The Modernist
Novel. 1997: Orientalist
Reception of Ottoman Dervish Thought and Culture. 1996: Ottoman Literary and Intellectual
Culture, 17th-18th Centuries. 1994: Beauty and Love by Şeyh Galib. 1993:
Language and National Identity in
--
Comparative Studies 672, Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century
--Near
Eastern Languages and Cultures/Comparative Studies 675, Intellectuals in the
--Turkish 651, Modern Turkish Poetry and Prose
--Turkish
641, Travels in
--Turkish 627, Classical Turkish Poetry
--Turkish
611, Ottoman Orthography, Conventions and Style
Fulfilling
Undergraduate General Education Requirement:
--
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures/Comparative Studies 374, The
Novel in the
-- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 372, Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
--Turkish 372, Turkish Literature in Translation
--Turkish 371, Turkish Sufism
--Comparative
Studies 358, Film and Literature as Narrative Art in the
--Turkish 241, Turkish Culture
--Turkish
101, 102, 103, 104, 401, 402, Modern Turkish, first and second years
Other
courses taught at OSU:
--NELC 272, Masterpieces of Near Eastern Literature in Translation
--Comparative
Studies 103, Psychological Themes in Literature (Western literature)
As
a Visiting Professor at BILKENT UNIVERSITY,
--Edeb 503, Divan Edebiyati
--Edeb 513, Tasavvuf Edebiyati
--Edeb 514, Divan Edebiyati Semineri
--Edeb 530, Edebi Çeviri
As
a Visiting Professor at
--Phil 202, Philosophy and the Modern Mind
--Soci 320, History and Foundations of Sociological Theory
As
a Visiting Professor at
--TKL
429 Problematics in Theory of Mesnevi
Literature
As
a Mellon Fellow at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1985-87
--Turkish/Comparative Literature G4113x, Islamicate Romance: Faces of Beauty and Love
--Literature Humanities C1001x-C1002y, Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy
--Oriental
Humanities V3399x (Guest lecturer in Islamic texts)
B.A thesis supervised:
"Farid ad-Din `Attar," Department of Religion
SUPERVISION OF THESES
1. Hulya Adak, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature 2001,
“Intersubjectivity: Halide Edip or
the ‘Ottoman/Turkish Woman’ as the Subject of Knowledge.”
2. Ahmet Ağır, M.A. in Turkish 1998,
"The
Intellectuality of Gunay Rodoplu,
Main Character of Alev Alatlı's
Quartet: By God, You Threw
me to the Wolves, Viva la Muerte, Nuke
Turkey, Musti Turkey is OK.
3. Zekeriya Başkal,
M.A. in Turkish 1998, OSU:
“Identity,
Intellectuals and the Generation of ’68 in the Trilogy by Adalet
Ağaoğlu: Lying
Down to Die, A Wedding Party, No…”
4. Bülent Bekçioglu, M.A. in Turkish 1997, OSU:
"The Experience of Modernity and Turkish
Poetry."
5. Hülya Bulut, M.A. in Turkish 2001, Bilkent
Üniversitesi:
“Yeniliklere Dolu Yüzyıldan İki ‘Yeni’ İsim: Nedim-Levni
ve Eserlerindeki Sevgili Figürleri.”
6. Victoria Clement, M.A. in Turkish 1999, OSU:
"The
Politics of Social Reference in Soviet
7. Natalie Corvington,
M.A. in Comparative Studies, OSU:
8. Hatice Coza, M.A. candidate in Turkish, OSU.
9. Hiclal Demir, M.A. in Turkish 2001, Bilkent
Üniversitesi:
“Çağlarını Eleştiren Divan Şairleri: Hayreti – Usuli – Hayali.”
10. Kerim Demirci, M.A. in Turkish 1998, OSU:
"Temel: New Figure in the Academic Sphere, Stereotyped
Character in Turkish Humor."
11. Yücel Demirer, One-of-a-Kind Ph.D. 2004, OSU.
12. Gönül Ertem, Ph.D. in Anthropology 1999, University of
Texas/Austin:
"Dancing to Modernity: Cultural Politics of Cherkess Nationhood in the Heartland of
13. Sibel Erol, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature 1993, University of
California/Berkeley:
"Narratives of Stillness: A Re-examination
of the Bildungsroman."
14. Özgen Felek, M.A. in Turkish 2003, OSU:
“The Death of
Narcissus: An Experiment in the Psychoanalysis of an Ottoman Poet.”
15. Todor Kafala, M.A. in Turkish, OSU:
"The Poetry of Ahmet Haşim."
16. Ferhat Karabulut, M.A. in Turkish 1998, OSU:
"The
Turkish Woman and Leyla Erbil:
Political and Ideological Consciousness of Female Protagonists in
17. Abbas Karakaya, M.A. in Turkish 2001, OSU.
18. Duygu Köksal, Ph.D. in Government 1996, UT/Austin:
"Nationalism and Modern
Identity in
19. Suzan Osman, M.A. in Turkish 1997, OSU:
"Jadidist Texts
in Context: A Critical Perspective."
20. Sylvia Wing Önder,
One-of-a-Kind Ph.D. OSU:
"Women Healers in a
21. Adem Hakan Özoğlu, Master in Liberal
Studies 1993, OSU:
"Kurdish National Discourse: The PKK and
the Şeyh Said Revolt."
_____,
Ph.D. in History 1997, OSU:
"Unimaginable Community."
22. Özlem Sert, M.A. in Social Science 2001, Haceteppe
Üniversitesi:
“Hıristyan ve
İslam Kültüründe Eshab-ı Kehf (Yedi
Uyurlar) İnancı.”
23. Nima Shafaieh, M.A. in Turkish, OSU:
"Azeri
National Literature: The Case of Fuzuli."
24. Göksun Yazıcı, M.A. in Turkish 2001, Bilkent
Üniversitesi:
“Taaşşuk-ı Talat ve Fitnat’ın İdeal
Okuru.”
INVITED LECTURES
2006 “Modernism, Adultery and Sweat,” at the
conference “Narratives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Swiss Ethnological
Society,
2005 “A Sword of Attention in the Hand of his
Glance,” at the panel, “Reading Oriental Romance,” Modern Language Association
Annual Meeting,
2004 “High Heels,” Keynote Speaker at the
Mediterranean Institute of Women’s Studies,
2003 “Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century
2002 “Terrorism and the Trust,” at the symposium
Teaching Islam after September 11,
“Intellectual
Culture and the Voice of the Ottoman Lyric,” at the conference The Impact of the Ottoman Empire on Early
Modern Europe,
2001 Day-long seminar on Ottoman literature as part of a two-week course on Turkish Literary and Cultural Studies at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
“Poetry Sivil,” at the Center for Transitional
Societies Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey.
“Iran and Turan: Literary Debates,” at the conference Iran and Turan, Center for Documents and Diplomatic History, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran, Iran.
2000 “Divan Şiirinde Zamanın Mekanı” (The Space of
Time in Divan Şiiri),
at the conference Osmanlı Dünyasında Kültürel Yapılanma ve Mimarlik (Architecture and
Cultural Structuring in the Ottoman World), Yıldız
Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
“The
Death of Allegory and the Birth of the Novel,” University of Michigan.
“Social and
Literary Form: A Comparison of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Poetics,” University
of Michigan.
“Beauty and Love and the Question of Where Truth Comes From,” University of Michigan.
1999 "Indian Style
Imagery," at the conference Osmanlı Dünyasında Şiir (Poetry in
the Ottoman World), Istanbul.
“The Ottoman Ghazal as Part of a Trans-linguistic Culture,” at the conference Ghazal as a Genre of World Literature, Orient-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon.
1998 "Invoking Secularism,
Blaming Modernism," at the conference The
Use and Abuse of the Past, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul.
"Turkey: Emerging Regional Power
or State in Crisis," Columbus Council on World Affairs.
"Cultural
Re-Imagining and World War I: Ottoman Defeat, Turkish Victory," Ohio State
University, Western European Studies Center.
"Secularism
and Intellectual Culture," Koç University,
Istanbul.
1997 Paper: "Batı'nın Hayalinde Yaşamak" (Living in the European Fantasy), at the conference Yunanlılar, Türkiyeliler, Ulusal Kimlik (Greeks, Turks, National Identity), BİLAR, Istanbul.
1996 "Concealed Facts:
Moments in the History of Turkish Translation," at the International
Conference on Translation Studies in memory of Prof. André Lefevere: translations: (re)shaping of literature
and culture, Bosphorus University, Istanbul.
"Oceanic Feeling and
Post-Classical Ottoman Poetry," at the Skilliter
Library Colloquium on Ottoman History:
The Ottomans and the Sea, Newnham College,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
"Authenticity of the Self, Modernism, and Turgut Uyar" American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul.
1995 "Modernism and
Authenticity," Sarıca Toplantısı,
Istanbul.
"Şeyh Galip ve Alegori
Üzerine" (About Şeyh Galip and Allegory), BİLAR,
Istanbul.
"Mazmun mu Klişe yoksa Devralınmış Mazmun Kavramı mı? Galip'in Hayalinde Renk ve Yorumu" (Is it the Trope which is Cliché, or the Received Concept of Trope? Color and its interpretation in Galip's Work), at the conference Şeyh Galip Sempozyumu, Tarık Zafer Tunaya Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul.
1993 "From the Classic to
the Postmodern," Bosphorus University, Istanbul.
"Nationalism, Philology, and
Culture in Modern and Ottoman Turkish Literary Studies," the Eighth Annual
Middle East History & Theory Workshop Conference, University of Chicago
Same topic, Columbia
University.
"Who's Afraid of Unity? Revolutionary Desire and Vahdet-i Vücud," at the 10th Annual Symposium of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society: Prayer and Contemplation, Collingwood College, Durham University, England.
1992 "Subjectivity and the State: Poetry in
Istanbul during the 1790's," at the First Skilliter
Library Colloquium on Ottoman History: The
Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century, Newnham
College, Cambridge University.
"Ibn 'Arabi and Ottoman Dervish Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order, Part Two," 9th Annual
Symposium of the Ibn `Arabi
Society: "Theophany and Imagination," Wadham College, Oxford University.
"Postmodernism and Turkish Fiction," Columbia U.
1991 "Yunus Emre,
Filoloji ve Türk Halk Geleneği,"
at the conference Uluslararası Yunus Emre Semineri, UNESCO Türkiye Milli Komisyonu,
Ankara, Turkey.
"The Tower of
Difference: Translation of Ottoman Poetry," annual meeting of the Mid-East
Literary Seminar, The Impact of
Translation, Princeton University.
"Postmodernism and the Turkish Novel," University of Washington College Seminar Series, Seattle.
1990 "Ibn 'Arabi
and Ottoman Dervish Traditions: The Melami Supra-Order," 4th Annual Symposium of the Ibn 'Arabi Society: Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, 1165-1240 A.D., His Life and Times, University
of California/Berkeley.
"Turkish Culture:
Narratives of Turkish Studies,"
1989 "Polemicizing the Poetic: Divan and anti-Divan in Turkish Criticism," first annual meeting of the Mid-East Literary Seminar, Canonicity and Middle Eastern Texts, OSU.
1987 "The Castle of Forms:
Rumi and Galib," Eleventh Biennial Conference of
the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic studies, The Heritage of Rumi, in honor of Annemarie Schimmel.
"Images of
Turkish Romance: From Metaphor to Symbol," Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Symposium, Begetting Images,
"Turkish
Romances,"
"The Paradigm of
Love and Turkish Romance," OSU.
"Turkish Romances,"
1986 "The Paradigm of Love
and Types of Romance,"
"Bektashi Lyrics: A Question of
Style," at the conference University of Strasbourg, L'école
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
l'Institut Francais d'études Anatoliennes d'Istanbul, Groupe de Recherche d'études Orientales: International Round Table, "L'Ordre des Bektachis et les Groupes se Réclamant de Hadji-Bektach," Strasbourg, France.
"Christian Disciples at the
Funeral of a Muslim Saint," Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Symposium: "Cultures in Confrontation,"
1985 "Aesthetics of Shaykh Galib,"
"Genre and Style
in Turkish Narrative Poetry,"
1983 "Hüsn-ü Aşk'ta Kale-i Zat'üs-Suver" annual Türkoloji
Kongresi,
"Truth and
Poetry in Beauty and Love,"
American Research Institute in
1982 "Mevlevi Music and
Calligraphy," School of International and Public Affairs,
1981 "History of Turkish
Music," Austrian Cultural Center,
CONFERENCES DIRECTED
1998 "Modernism and Social
Change: In Honor of Adalet Ağaoğlu,"
1997 (Co-directed) "Yunanlılar, Türkiyeliler, Ulusal Kimlik" (Greeks,
Turks, National Identity), Bilim ve
Araştırma Enstitüsu
(BİLAR),
1994 "Culture and Society:
The Third Graduate Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Language
Arts,"
1992 "Poetics of Change: The Second Graduate Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Language Arts," OSU.
1990"The 'Other'
1989 "Canonicity and Middle Eastern Texts," first annual meeting of the Mid-East Literary Seminar, OSU.
1987 (Co-directed)
"Begetting Images," Society of Fellows in the Humanities Symposium,
OTHER LECTURES
1999 “
1998 "The Coup Novel: An
Interview with Adalet Ağaoğlu,"
at the conference Modernism and Social
Change: In Honor of Adalet Ağaoğlu,
Paper: "The Second Modern and the
Ottomanesque," Middle East Studies Association (
1995 Respondant for Walter Andrews, "Metin
Nerede? Hangi Metin? Kimin Metni? Latifi Tezkiresi''nden Derrida'nın
GLAS'ına, Bilgisayardan Metinler Üzerine Post-Modern Teorilere..."
(Where's the Text? What Text? Whose Text? From Latifi's Tezkire to
Derrida's GLAS),
1994 Discussant:
"Historiographies of the
1993 Paper: "Theory's Not
Dead—It's Just Moved to
Chair: "Beyond Margins: Turkish
Cultural Studies and the
1992 Paper: "Nationalist or
Modernist? The Poet Yahya
Kemal," annual
Chair: "That Obscure Object of
National Desire,"
1991 Paper: "You and I and
the Language of Verse," annual
Chair: "The Subjects of Ottoman
Verse,"
Faculty advisor and Chair: "The
Faculty advisor and Chair: "Graduate Student Conference in Greek and Turkish Modernism," OSU
1990 Chair: "The Legacy of
Persian Sufi Literature to Classical Persian Culture," a the conference Legacy of Persian Sufism,
Director of special meeting of The
Graduate Conference in Difference and the Turkish in the Literary Arts, annual
Paper: "Postmodernism and Turkish
Fiction: Orhan Pamuk's Beyaz Kale,"
Chair: "The Sign at The Crossroads: Discourses of of
Turkish Culture,"
Chair: "The Greek Others,"
Paper: "A Postmodernist Turkish
Novel," 33rd International Congress of Asian and North African Studies,
1988 Departmental representative:
"Intertextuality and Middle Eastern Texts,"
Mid-East Literary Seminar,
Director of lecture series: "Modes of Discourse in Turkish Texts," Professors Talat Halman, Annemarie Schimmel, and Ilhan Başgöz, OSU
1986 Chair: "Narrative
Genres," annual
Paper: "The Paradigm of Love and
Types of Romance,"
Respondent for Þerif
Mardin, "
Paper: "Shaykh
Galib's Masnavi Commentary,"
American Oriental Society annual meeting,
1985 Paper: "The Turkish
Symbolists' Narrative Roots," annual
Paper: "Personality and Literary
Criticism,"
1984 Paper: "Aesthetics of Shaykh Galib," annual
UNIVERSITY
At
Ohio State University, 1987-2005:
Coordinator
of the Turkish Program in Ottoman and Modern Language, Literature, and Culture
Associate
Faculty of the Division of Comparative Studies
Affiliate
of the Center for Folklore Studies
DEVELOPMENT
-
Initiated a faculty exchange agreement between
-
Initiated a student exchange agreement between OSU and
- Co-authored with Margaret Mills an OSU Academic Enrichment Funds proposal for the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures ($150,000), 1998.
- Since 1997 engaged in on-going negotiations for an agreement between the Agha Khan Educational Foundation and OSU, for OSU to offer a one-year certificate program for instruction in educational technology to Tajik educators.
-
Initiated in 1997 and continue to coordinate an annual faculty exchange
agreement between OSU and
- Authored the Turkish Studies Developmental Proposal, submitted to The Republic of Turkey on behalf of The Ohio State University College of the Humanities, the Department of Near Eastern, Judaic, and Hellenic Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on Turkish Studies, 1993 ($1,500,000).
- Founded in 1990 a biennial international conference on Ottoman/Modern Turkish/Turkic Literary and Cultural Studies for graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s.
- Designed course offerings and degrees in Ottoman and Modern Turkish, 1988-present.
- Helped draft proposals for departmental B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
- Wrote Strategic Plans for Turkish and Persian programs in 1988.
- Founded Turkish and Persian video film library, 1988.
-
Wrote proposals for funding of lecture series, conferences, and scholarships,
1988-present.
SERVICE ON COMMITTEES:
Professional
Turkish Studies Association Nominating Committee, Chair, 1990-92
University
Research and Graduate Council - Research Committee - Senate - Faculty Council - Mediterranean Progam (founding member) - Internal Review Committee, Department of Near Eastern, Judaic, and Hellenic Languages and Literatures
College
Turkish Studies Development (Chair), Dean's Advisory
Interdepartmental
Departmental
Faculty
Duties and Responsibilities (Chair) - Language Instruction - Chair's Advisory -
Chair's Council - Graduate Studies (Chair) - Colloquium and Lectures - Graduate
Associates and Lecturers - Curriculum – Cultural Theory Search - Chair Search -
Arabic search - Hebrew search - Persian search - Instructional Unit
Representatives - Strategic Planning - Ph.D
RESEARCH ABROAD
2003 6 months' research on
Turkish cultural politics,
1994-96 15 months'
research on modernist Turkish poetry,
1993-94 6 months' research
on Turkish modernism,
1988-89 9 months' research
on Ottoman manuscript commentaries on Persian poetry, Süleymaniye
and Topkapı libraries,
1979-84 5 years' research on Ottoman poetry, music theory, voice, reed flute and the art of making flutes, calligraphy, and Sufism at the Turkish National Classical Music Chorus, National Conservatory, Istanbul and Bosphorus Universities, and with private teachers, Istanbul
1978 3 months' research in
classical Persian poetry and vocal music at the
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2005-present Self-employed writer and translator.
1987-2005 Assistant, then Associate Professor of Turkish at Ohio State University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Associate Faculty in Comparative Studies; Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Folklore Studies.
2000-2001 Visiting
Professor, Bilkent Unversity,
1998 Visiting Professor,
1995 Visiting Professor,
1985-1987 Mellon Teaching and Research Fellow, Society for Fellows in the Humanities, and Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
1980-1984 Part-time
teacher of English at primary and secondary schools, the Turco-British
Association, and privately,
1977 Assistant Director,
1975-1977 Research
Assistant to Professor Wilson B. Bishai,
1972-1980 Employed and self-employed, full-time or part-time, as singer, musician, band leader, composer and lyricist under contracts in New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Boston, and Istanbul.