Oneiric Battles: Feminism and Anti-Feminism through Dream Allegories in Early 20th-Century Turkish Periodicals
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents
Zeynep Tek
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Literature, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
Zeynep Tek is assistant professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and teaches courses on modern Turkish literature, poetry analysis, critical literary theories, and the relationship between literature and cinema. She is interested in literary dream narratives, the satirical press, comparative literature, gender and women’s studies in the late Ottoman period and early Republican Turkey, on which she has written several papers, book chapters, and books. Her feminist biography of a 20th-century Turkish poet, author, and feminist activist, is forthcoming in Turkish. Awarded an international postdoctoral research fellowship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Tek is currently at Harvard University’s CMES working on a research project addressing the modern Ottoman dream allegories.