School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Yorgos Dedes

Key information

Roles
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Turkish
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

Research interests

Frontier epics: early Ottoman literature and language (influence of Persian and Greek); Balkan (especially Greek) Muslim literature (al Jamiada); early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture.

PhD Supervision

Name Title
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
Aydin Ozcandan An Islamic Visual Culture Analysis of Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Fountains and Their Epigraphs
James Scott The usage of Neo-Ottoman architectural styles in contemporary Turkish religious contexts

Publications

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