Senior Teaching Fellow
Member
Member
- Name:
- Dr Philipp Wirtz
- Email address:
- pw10@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4773
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
- Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 306
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 2-3pm
Biography
I received my PhD from SOAS in 2013 after studies and research in Germany, Iran, Turkey and the UK. My research areas include the modern history of the Middle East, particularly of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, especially contemporary Turkey. I am interested in "ego documents" and personal narratives, contacts between the Ottomans and the world around them as well as questions of cultural change and cultural politics.
Past research:
Personal narratives in the Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, especially autobiographies. Relationships between cultural production and politics in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East.
Current research projects:
- German expatriate intellectuals in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, 1880-1933.
Wirtz, Philipp (2017) Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies: Images of a Past World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.
Wirtz, Philipp (2010) 'A Long Farewell: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Autobiographies, 1920-1950'. Polyvocia: The SOAS Journal of Graduate Research 2, pp 46-63.
Wirtz, Philipp (2016) 'Presenting Ottoman childhoods in post-Ottoman Autobiographies'. In: Fortna, Benjamin C., (ed.), Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After. Leiden: Brill, pp 223-249.
Wirtz, Philipp (2011) 'Perceptions of the First World War in Turkish Autobiographies'. In: Miller, Alisa and Rowe, Laura and Kitchen, James, (eds.), Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 275-292.
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