Biography
Seda is an Assistant Librarian-Collections Development at the Aga Khan Library, London, and currently writing her PhD dissertation at SOAS in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Department. Seda holds a BA and MA degrees from the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. Previously, she collaborated on a research project entitled “Women Writers’ Literary Environment In Late Ottoman Istanbul (1869- 1923)”, funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). In her role there, she translated, edited and catalogued periodicals and various literary texts in Ottoman-Turkish and French. She was a PhD Placement Holder in the “Ottoman-Turkish Press in Bulgaria” Project at the British Library in 2021, cataloguing digitised minority press items in Bulgaria as part of EAP’s Ottoman-Turkish press project with the aim to preserve archival material in danger.
