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University of Pennsylvania

Literature History Arts and Culture English and Literature Literary Theory Literature Performing Arts Gender Studies Cultural Studies

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Abdulhamit Arvas is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, with affiliations in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, the Middle East Center, Theater Arts, and Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He earned his BA from Hacettepe University in Turkey, MA from Eastern Michigan University, and PhD in English with additional specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies from Michigan State University. Before joining Penn, Arvas served as Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Shakespeare in Drama at Vassar College. He is an extraordinary member of Exeter College at the University of Oxford. His research and teaching center on early modern literature and culture, comparative histories of sexuality and race, queer studies, trans history, cross-cultural encounters, and Islam in the Renaissance.