Selim Kuru (Near East Language and Literature)
Office: Denny 220F, Box 353120
Phone: 206-543-4959
Email: selims@uw.edu

Website: https://nelc.washington.edu/people/selim-sirri-kuru

I am a historian of Western Turkish literature and literary culture who is trained as a philologist my interests include formulations of gender in Ottoman and Modern Turkish literatures, literary circles and literary competition in Anatolian Turkic city-states and the Ottoman Empire within a large frame of literature as a consistent and pervasive human experience. My courses on Ottoman and Modern Turkish cultures and literatures as well as language courses in Ottoman Turkish and advanced level modern Turkish language incorporate verbal and visual texts to investigate the role of literature and arts in the formation of societies.