Academic Bio
Cagdas Acar is a PhD candidate in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. His research interests include the literary production of late Ottoman bureaucrats and their translations as instruments of change, print culture’s co-existence with manuscript traditions, and the reading cultures in Ottoman Turkish, Armenian, and Armeno-Turkish, especially between 1840s and 1860s. He is a member of Translators' Society in Turkey (CEVBIR) and has so far translated novels by Hubert Selby Jr. and J. G. Ballard as well as short stories by Conan Doyle. He worked as an adjunct instructor in Istanbul Arel University, Bogazici University, and Yasar University, teaching translation technologies and translation project management. In 2014 he was given "Elif Ertan New Voice in Translation" Award by Translation & Interpreting Association Turkey. Cagdas holds a BA degree from Bogazici University in Translation and Interpreting Studies and an MA degree from KU Leuven in Western Literature.