Canan Bolel
Project Description
Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures, Literature, and Languages of the Eastern Mediterranean, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture
Ph.D. University of Washington (2022)
| Contact Information: Email: cananbo@uw.edu |
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Faculty Profile
Canan Bolel is an Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures, Languages, and Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Her research revolves around the themes peculiar to the social and cultural histories of Sephardic communities of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. Her first book project focuses on marginalized Sephardic Jews of late Ottoman Izmir.
Bolel is also a literary translator. She translates from Ladino, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish into English. She recently started working on a collaborative translation project with Dr. Laurent Mignon to translate the works of Beki L. Bahar, Turkey’s first female playwright, into English, as well as her Ladino poems into Turkish and English. Currently, she is working on the English translation of Sevim Burak’s enigmatic yet brilliant Osmanlı Bankası.
Bolel received her Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Washington in 2022. She holds a Master of Sciences in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.