N. İpek Hüner Cora is Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, 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. Her research interests include the history of Ottoman literature in the early modern era, gender, and sexuality as well as history of reading. She is especially interested in tracing stories featuring women across centuries and geographies. Among her publications is “‘Isn’t she a Woman?’: The ‘Widow of Ephesus’ in the Ottoman Empire,” which appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies in 2020.
N. İpek Hüner Cora is Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She has completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, 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. Her research interests include the history of Ottoman literature in the early modern era, gender, and sexuality as well as history of reading. She is especially interested in tracing stories featuring women across centuries and geographies. Among her publications is “‘Isn’t she a Woman?’: The ‘Widow of Ephesus’ in the Ottoman Empire,” which appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies in 2020.