Rate Professor Abdulhamit Arvas

Academic Background

Ph.D. in English with specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies, Michigan State University.

Research Interests

Early modern sexuality and race in a global context; Anglo-Ottoman encounters; global Shakespeare; transgender history; queer sexualities in Turkey; cross-cultural encounters in the Renaissance Mediterranean.

Appointments

Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; affiliations in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, Middle East Center, and Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies; previously Assistant Professor of Theater, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Awards

Fellowships and grants from Fulbright, Mellon, Folger Shakespeare Library, SSHRC Early Modern Conversions (University of Cambridge), University of Oxford, University of California Humanities Research Institute.

Publications

• Co-editor, Critical Confessions Now, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 (originally postmedieval journal issue, 2020).
• Articles in English Literary Renaissance, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Survey, postmedieval, GLQ.
• Contributions to The Postcolonial World, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature, England’s Asian Renaissance, Trans Historical, A Companion to Global Shakespeares.

Additional Contributions

Preparing new edition of Shakespeare's Othello for Oxford University Press; mentorship through Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.