Iclal Vanwesenbeeck Translator & Editor

Iclal Vanwesenbeeck is an associate professor at the State University of New York, Fredonia. Her current research focuses on animal studies, primarily animals and the Iraq war and music and literature; in particular, opera in late Ottoman literature. She is also the translator of various poems by the Ottoman poet Nigâr binti Osman, Halide Edip’s fiction, prose poems by Mehmet Rauf, and Samipaşazade Sezai’s short story, “Pantomime”. Burcu Karahan is a lecturer in Turkish Literature and Language at the Comparative Literature Department, Stanford University. She specializes in late 19th and early 20th-century Ottoman literature, with a particular focus on the novel, literary translation, sexuality, and Ottoman modernization. Her current research and translation project explores erotic fiction from the Second Constitutional Era, examining its connections to national and literary history.