About
Berkay Uluç (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Critical Translation Studies at the University of Michigan. His research centers around literary and translational modernity in the Ottoman Mediterranean, focusing on Turkish and Arabic.
EDUCATION
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 09/2019 – ongoing)
PhD, Turkish Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, 09/2018 – 06/2019)
MA, Cultural Studies, Sabancı University (Istanbul, 09/2015 – 08/2017)
Erasmus Exchange Program, Sciences Po (Paris, 09/2013 – 12/2013)
BA, Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, 09/2010 – 06/2015)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Middle East studies; Mediterranean studies; translation studies; book history; postcolonial studies; aesthetics and politics
LANGUAGES
Turkish (native fluency)
English (near-native fluency)
Ottoman Turkish (advanced reading)
Modern Standard Arabic (advanced reading)
French (intermediate reading)
Western Armenian (beginner)
