Lecturer (Part-Time)

R. Aslıhan Aksoy-Sheridan graduated from Bosphorus University’s Department of Western Languages and Literatures with high honours in 2000, receiving her M.A. from the same department in 2003 with her thesis “The Embowelled Brain: The Carnivalesque in the Works of Jonathan Swift and Flann O’Brien”. She received her second M.A. in Turkish Literature in 2009, from Bilkent University, with her thesis “Textual Ambivalence in the Narratives of Ahmet Mithat Efendi”. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in Ottoman history at the same university, focusing on Ottoman miscellaneous manuscripts, her prospective dissertation, “Imaginary Journeys into the Ottoman Imperial Past and Future: A Study of Pseudo-Historical Narratives of the 17th–18th Century”, investigating early modern communal conceptions of history propagated in the Ottoman Empire. She has been an instructor of Turkish history and language at Bilkent University. In 2012–2013, she received a fellowship from Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC), where she conducted extensive archival research on 17th-century Ottoman miscellanies held in the Süleymaniye manuscript library. The author of numerous academic articles, her interests focus primarily on the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, particularly miscellanies and forms of literacy and cultural consumption in the early modern period.