Publications

Various Critical Review essays, Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth Century Novel. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2022.

“The One-Eyed Tailor.” The Bosphorus Review of Books, November, 2022

https://bosphorusreview.com/

“Root to Rise.” Eckleburg Review. February 2020. Print edition No. 21.
eBook available https://www.eckleburg.org/eckleburg-no-21/

“Suzy Wong: A Fragment of a Dream.” North American Review. Fall 2019. *Finalist for the Torch Prize in Non-fiction. https://northamericanreview.org

“On Writing Suzy Wong: A Fragment of a Dream.” Open Space, North American Review. December 3, 2019. https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/suzy-wong-fragment-dream

“An Immigrant Embraces Long Island.” Newsday, September 22, 2019. https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/newsday-reader-essay-expressway-1.36600045

“Calamity and Despair.” Vol.1 Brooklyn.com, September 17, 2019. https://vol1brooklyn.com/2019/09/18/calamity-and-despair/

“The Joan of Arc Puppet Show.” The Threepenny Review, Summer 2019. https://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/158_su19.html

The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire. New York: Routledge Publishing, 2003. https://www.routledge.com/The-Other-Empire-British-Romantic-Writings-about-the-Ottoman-Empire/Swenson/p/book/9780415762656

The Fantastic Story of Mustafa Turhan: An Oral History. New York: Swensonia Inc. 2010.

“Literacy and Heritage: Growing up Turkish on Long Island.” Memoirs in the Light of Day. Ed. Margaret Dinzler Shaw. New York: Lamberson Corona Press. 75-82. 2008.

“Voices across the Frontier: Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood.” Arab Women’s Lives Retold. Ed. Nawar al-Hassan Golley. Syracuse University Press.  111-128. 2007. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/951/arab-women-s-lives-retold/

“Unlettered Tartars and Torpid Barbarians: Teaching the Figure of the Turk in Shelley and De Quincey.” Interrogating Orientalism. Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler. Ohio University Press. 182-197. 2006. https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/24118

Random House Teaching Guide, Absent by Betool Khedairi. 2007 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/92298/absent-by-betool-khedairi/9780812977424/teachers-guide/

Random House Teaching Guide, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. 2005. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119522/reading-lolita-in-tehran-by-azar-nafisi/9780812979305/teachers-guide/