School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Key information

Roles
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Turkish Centre for Ottoman Studies Advisory Board Member Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Member
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD(Harvard)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
424
Email address
gd5@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
+44(0)20 7898 4344
Support hours
Fridays 12 noon - 2:00pm

Biography

Language and literature; history

Research interests

Frontier epics: early Ottoman literature and language (influence of Persian and Greek); Balkan (especially Greek) Muslim literature (al Jamiada)

PhD Supervision

Name Title
Mr Ahmet Atas The Politics of Melancholia in Kurdish Diasporic Novels
Miss Senem Gökel Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries
Seda İzmirli Karamanlı Theodosia Sophroniades: An Ottoman Greek and Circassian Female Intellectual Espousing Women’s Rights In Late Ottoman Istanbul
Ummugulsum Kurukol Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.

Publications

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