R. Aslıhan Aksoy-Sheridan works as an assistant professor at TED University, where she has taught courses on world literature, children's literature, critical thinking and writing, introduction to cultural studies, world history, and humanities since 2016.
Before TED University, she worked as a part-time lecturer at Bilkent University, and taught Ottoman Turkish at the Ankara Branch of Tarih Vakfı (History Foundation), between 2014 and 2017.
She received her Ph.D. on early modern Ottoman cultural history from Bilkent University in 2016. Previously, she had obtained her B.A. and first M.A. in English Literature from Boğaziçi University, and in 2009 she received her second M.A. in Turkish Literature from Bilkent University. She was a residential junior fellow at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in 2012–2013.
Her scholarly interests in the area of Ottoman cultural history focus primarily on forms of literacy and cultural consumption, particularly in miscellanies of the early modern period.

Degrees
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University, 2000
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University, 2003
M.A. in Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2009
PhD in History, Bilkent University, 2016

Research Areas:

Social Sciences and Humanities