CURRICULUM VITAE

She comes from Turkey's teacher-training school tradition: she completed Beşikdüzü İMKB Anatolian Teacher Training High School, entered by national examination, and learned English in its preparatory year. She graduated on a full scholarship from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Fatih University. In the year of her graduation she took the Arabic preparatory programme at Istanbul University's Faculty of Theology; that is where she learned the source language of the classical texts and met the faculty she would work with. The decision to pursue a master's degree in Turkish-Islamic Literature followed at the end of that year. Coming to theology from literature required the field's own formation, so she completed a bachelor's degree in Theology through Istanbul University's ILITAM programme in 2021.

Her subject has not changed since: the Ottoman commentary (şerh) tradition. Her master's thesis examined Eyüp Sabri Paşa's commentary on the Kasîde-i Bürde; her doctoral thesis examined İbrahim Hanîf Efendi's Turkish commentary on Qādī ʿIyāḍ's al-Shifāʾ. Both were published as books. She has written articles and encyclopaedia entries in the same field, and has served as a section editor of Dergiabant since 2024.

She began teaching as soon as she completed her doctorate, while still a research assistant. In 2024–2025 she taught Ottoman Turkish, Readings in Ottoman Turkish Texts, Diction and Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Professional Practice, and Persian II, and gave seminars and courses in the same period. In September 2025 she was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Islamic History and Arts at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University's Faculty of Theology, where she continues to teach.

She learned Arabic in the preparatory programme at Istanbul University. She studied Persian during the pandemic, through online courses taken in the quarantine months; the Persian course she now teaches and the practice applications she builds for students grew out of that work.

She develops open-access applications so that course texts can also be studied on a phone; the work continues an interest that began with the first website she built at eleven. In 2025, to place that teaching work on an academic footing, she began a second doctorate in Educational Technologies at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University. In the same year she also completed a bachelor's degree in International Trade and Logistics at Anadolu University's Faculty of Business.