Professor Walter G. Andrews, distinguished scholar of Ottoman literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, will visit Bilkent University during the first week of October. In addition to a public lecture on October 1, Prof. Andrews will conduct a workshop with the students of the newly-established Department of Turkish Literature.
Walter Andrews was born in 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Carleton College in 1961, he earned MA degrees in English (1963) and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (1965). He received his PhD in 1970 from the University of Michigan with his dissertation on Ottoman poetics. Since 1968, Andrews has been teaching courses on the theory and criticism of Ottoman and Turkish literature at the University of Washington. Prof. Andrews is best known for An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry, published in 1976, and his influential Poetry's Voice, Society's Song, published in 1984.
Professor Andrews' public lecture titled "After Society's Song: What Next?" will be delivered on Thursday, October 1, at 4:30 p.m. at the Faculty of Humanities and Letters Building, C Block Auditorium, 3rd Floor. Refreshments will be served.
