Biography

I am a historian of Ottoman intellectual and cultural history with a particular interest in the interaction between historical and literary texts. My first book, the Emergence of Public Opinion in the Ottoman Empire, was a result of the strong curiosity that I had developed over the years in the social and political transformations of the Ottoman Empire. As a scholar, I work at the intersection of history and literature. For my next project, I am planning to focus on the reading culture and its transformations throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.