Hülya Adak

Hülya Adak is Senior Fellow at the Orient Institut Istanbul der Max Weber Stiftung and Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the Margherita von Brentano Zentrum at Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2019-2022, she was the Director of SU Gender (Sabancı University's Gender and Women's Studies Center). She served as Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (2018-2020) and Assistant & Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Sabancı University (2001-2024). She is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers and Newton Grant (British Academy, with Murat Akser). Her articles in the fields of gender studies, memory and trauma studies, empire studies and nationalism, history of human rights, literature, theater, and film studies have been published in prominent journals, including the PMLA, New Perspectives on Turkey & South Atlantic Quarterly. Her recent works include Aesthetic Interventions to Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Violence (Special Issue of the European Journal of Women's Studies, 2025, with Julia Garraio); Critical Perspectives on Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915 (Routledge, 2023, with Müge Göçek and Ron Suny), Mapping Gender: What’s New and What’s Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Max Weber Stiftung 2022, with Richard Wittmann); Performing Turkishness: Politics of Theater in Turkey and its Diasporas, (Special Issue of Comparative Drama, 2018, with R. Ertuğ Altınay), Halide Edib and Political Violence: The Armenian Atrocities, Dictatorship and Nonviolence (Bilgi UP, 2016, in turkish).