Zeynep Tek is interested in literary dream narratives, satirical press, comparative literature, gender, and womens studies in the late Ottoman period and early Republican Turkey. She is an assistant professor at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and teaches courses on modern Turkish literature, poetry analysis, critical literature theories, and the relationship between literature and cinema. Her recent articles include “Son Dönem (Anti-feminist) Osmanlı Mizah Basınında Güzide Sabri'nin Feminist Mizahı: ‘Tevfik Efendi’ Adlı Hikâyenin Romana Uzanan Kurgusu [Güzide Sabri’s Feminist Humor in the Late (Anti-Feminist) Ottoman Humor Press: The Plot of the Story ‘Tevfik Efendi’ and its Extension into a Novel],” “Mütareke Dönemi Mizah Edebiyatında Haraşo (Beyaz Rus Kadını) İmgesi [The Image of Khorosho (White Russian Woman) in Turkish Humorous Literature During the Armistice Period],” “Nahid Sırrı Örik’in Kıskanmak Romanında Ferik Cemal Paşa’nın ‘Geçkin’ ve ‘Talihsiz’ Kızı [‘Spinster’ and ‘Unfortunate’ Daughter of Ferik Cemal Pasha in the Novel Kıskanmak by Nahid Sırrı Örik],” “‘Evde Kalmış Bir Kız’ Olmanın Trajedisi: Tarık Buğra Hikâyesi Üzerine Bir Okuma [The Tragedy of ‘Spinsterhood’: An Analysis of a Story by Tarık Buğra].” Her feminist biography of a 20th-century Turkish poet, author, and feminist activist, is forthcoming in Turkish. In the 2022-23 academic term at Harvard University’s CMES, Tek was awarded an international postdoctoral research fellowship by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and is working on a research project addressing modern Ottoman dream narratives under the supervision of Professor Cemal Kafadar.