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Borte Sagaster serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cyprus since January 2007, following significant research positions at Berlin's Centre of Modern Orient (1993-1999), Istanbul's Orient Institute (1999-2003), Heidelberg University (2004), and Giessen University's SFB Erinnerungskulturen (2006), plus a 2005 visiting professorship at Cyprus. Her academic journey reflects deep engagement with Ottoman and Turkish cultural institutions across Europe and Turkey.
Her educational foundation includes a Master's degree (1989) and PhD in Ottoman Tanzimat-period literature (1995), both from Hamburg University's Department of Oriental Studies, supported by an Orient Institute Istanbul doctoral scholarship (1991-1993). This specialized training established her expertise in late Ottoman literary transformations.
Sagaster's research centers on 19th-20th century Modern Turkish literature with distinctive emphases: Turkish autobiographical writing, detective fiction evolution, literatures of non-Turkish Ottoman communities, women's literary contributions, 'Other' representation, and cultural memory's role in canon formation. Her work consistently employs comparative frameworks to examine Turkey's literary landscape through minority perspectives and identity negotiations, revealing how literature mediates historical consciousness and social change.
Analysis of her publications since 2006 shows evolving scholarly trends: early work focused on genre studies (detective fiction, poetry movements), shifting toward cultural memory and minority literatures after 2009. Her research demonstrates methodological sophistication in analyzing how Turkish literature processes historical trauma, constructs national identity, and incorporates marginalized voices, particularly evident in her 2019 monograph History of Modern Turkish Literature and 2021 memory studies contributions.
No scientific awards or fellowship recognitions are documented in the available materials. Regarding academic mentoring, the provided texts contain no information about graduate students supervised or doctoral committees chaired. Similarly, while her collaborative editorial projects (e.g., Crime Fiction in and around the Eastern Mediterranean) indicate research partnerships, specific grant funding details remain unreported.
Professor Sagaster's scholarly activities show no indication of laboratory or formal research team leadership; her work appears primarily individual and publication-focused, though her editorial collaborations with institutions like Bamberg University Press suggest active participation in academic networks. Her sustained output through 2021 confirms ongoing research vitality within Turkish literary studies.
