Academic Bio
N. Ipek Huner-Cora is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Her work focuses on the history of Ottoman literature, gender, and sexuality. Her dissertation in progress, titled "The Story Has It: Prose, Gender, and Space in the Early Modern Ottoman World," uses fictional prose stories scattered in manuscript collections and questions primarily how men and women, as well as their social and spatial relations, were narrated and perceived in Ottoman literary fiction. By doing so, it proposes to add to our knowledge of gender and literature in the Ottoman Empire and, more specifically, to provide insights into Early Modern Ottoman minds and mentalities. Huner-Cora is also taking part in a dictionary project compiling Ottoman erotic terminology.