Near and Middle East Section
Dr Yorgos Dedes
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Key information
- Roles
- Near and Middle East Section Senior Lecturer in Turkish Centre for Ottoman Studies Advisory Board Member Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Member Member
- Department
- Near and Middle East Section
- 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
Office hours: on campus Tuesday 3:00-5:00pm; or online by appointment via Google calendar.
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 |
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
Contact Yorgos
- Telephone