Areas of Expertise:
Identities and nationalisms in Ottoman/Turkish contexts; Turkish language and culture; historiography and literature; comparative research in Middle Eastern, Eurasian and Balkan studies

Recent Publications:

• “Ottoman Past and Turkish Future: Ambivalence in Tanpinar’s Those Outside the Scene,” South Atlantic Quarterly Special issue, “Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey Beyond the East-West Divide,” (Duke University), April 2003
• Earth and Ashes, Harcourt (New York). English translation of Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi’s novella on the Soviet-Afghan war.  September 2002
• My Name is Red, Knopf (New York). English translation of Turkish writer Orham Pamuk’s historical novel about 16th c. Ottoman miniaturists.  September 2001 (Vintage paperback edition).
• English transltion of Orham Pamuk’s “Pencereden Bakmak” (“Famous People”) story, Granta “Love Stories” issue, (New York), Fall 1999.