Didem Z Havlioglu, Associate Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Coordinator of the Shared Partnership for Less Commonly Taught Languages

Please note: Didem has left the "Asian & Middle Eastern Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I am a literary historian working on women and gender in the Muslim world, particularly the Ottoman Turkish literary history. My book, Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-bending and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press, 2017) is about the first woman writer in the Muslim world, Mihri Hatun (d. circa 1512) whose collection of poetry survived. I examine Mihri's writing within the Islamicate literary traditions and argue that her work not only performs but also subverts the male-dominant intellectual discourse and space.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2204 Franklin Center, Room 111, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jodKWse1wRk

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• TURKISH 101.01, ELEMENTARY TURKISH Synopsis

  Perkins 087, W 10:15 AM-11:05 AM; Online ON, MF 10:15 AM-11:05 AM

• AMES 180FS.01, HEROES AND VILLAINS Synopsis

  Crowell 107, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 180FS.01, HISTORY 169FS.01, ICS 180FS.01)

• FOCUS 195FS.04, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS Synopsis

  FreemanCtr 001, Th 06:00 PM-07:30 PM

• TURKISH 203.01, INTERMEDIATE TURKISH Synopsis

  Perkins 087, W 01:45 PM-02:35 PM; Online ON, MF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM

• TURKISH 102.01, ELEMENTARY TURKISH Synopsis

  Perkins 072, W 10:15 AM-11:05 AM; Online ON, MF 10:15 AM-11:05 AM

• TURKISH 204.01, INTERMEDIATE TURKISH Synopsis

  Perkins 072, W 01:45 PM-02:35 PM; Online ON, MF 01:45 PM-02:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

University of Washington

2008

Specialties:

Turkish

Research Interests:

Modern/Ottoman Turkish Language and Literature, Middle East Women's Studies, Early Modern Ottoman Intellectual and Literary History

Keywords:

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Recent Publications

1. Havlioglu, D, Mihrî Hatun Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (November, 2017), Syracuse University Press, ISBN 0815654154  [abs]
2. Border Crossing with the Black Book: Overcoming the Spatial, Cultural and Linguistic Distances, in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk (2017), Approaches to Teaching World L, ISBN 1603293191  [abs]
3. Havlioğlu, D, The Writing Subjects, Journal of Middle East Women'S Studies, vol. 12 no. 2 (July, 2016), pp. 291-295, Duke University Press [doi]
4. Havlioğlu, D, On the margins and between the lines: Ottoman women poets from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, Turkish Historical Review, vol. 1 no. 1 (May, 2010), pp. 25-54, Brill, ISSN 1877-5454 [repository], [doi]