Can Bahadır Yüce

Dr. Can Bahadır Yüce teaches courses on World History, the Modern Middle East, and the History of Political Thought. He received his M.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Butler University and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His research explores the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Middle East, with a focus on Turkey, where he also worked as a journalist. He is also a poet, and his most recent collection was published in 2022. 

Articles 

“What happened at the Tepebaşı Theater: A Tale of the Cold War on the Periphery.” Left History, vol. 26, no. 2, 2024, pp. 34-50. 

“Identity Construction through Language: The Case of the Turkish Language Reform.” OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, vol. 9, no. 2, 2019, pp. 100-117.  

“The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation’s Friend: The Turkish Reception of Pierre Loti.” Postscriptum, ISSN: 2456-7507, vol. 4, no. 2, 2019, pp. 131–145.  

“Gender Anxieties and the Formation of a Literary Genre.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 4.2, 2018, pp. 72-91. 

“Clashing Masculinities: Amos Oz’s Panther in the Basement,” The Rupkatha Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 2018, pp. 95-101.  

“Gendering the West: Cultural Anxiety in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.” Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 23-33.  

Books 

Gölgesi Batıya Düşer, Istanbul: Kırmızı, 2022. 

Unuttum Dünya, Istanbul: Sel, 2008; reprint, Everest, 2014. 

Uzakta Beyaz, Istanbul: Can, 2003; reprint, Everest, 2014. 

Yaslı Mızıka, Istanbul: Can, 2000; Everest, 2014. 

Şiirim Gibi Yaşadım [Interviews with Hilmi Yavuz], Istanbul: Dünya, 2006. 

• HIS-103 World History I 
• HIS-105 World History II 
• HIS-253 / POL-210 Modern MENA 
• HIS-300 Historian’s Craft 
• HIS-352 / POL-345 History of Political Thought 
• HIS-390 / POL-390 Empire 
• FYE-112H More Than a Game: Soccer in Global Context