Victoria Holbrook

Victoria Rowe Holbrook is a graduate of Harvard and Princeton and a member of the Columbia University Society of Fellows. She has taught at Columbia, Ohio State as a tenured Associate Professor, Bosphorus, Koç, Bilkent, and most recently Istanbul Bilgi University. She is the author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance , articles bridging literature, philosophy, and religious thought, and several translations from Turkish and Persian, including Nobel Prize...See more

Victoria Rowe Holbrook is a graduate of Harvard and Princeton and a member of the Columbia University Society of Fellows. She has taught at Columbia, Ohio State as a tenured Associate Professor, Bosphorus, Koç, Bilkent, and most recently Istanbul Bilgi University. She is the author of The Unreadable Shores of Love: Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance , articles bridging literature, philosophy, and religious thought, and several translations from Turkish and Persian, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle , Nurdan Gürbilek's The New Cultural Climate in Turkey : Living in a Shop Window , the Ottoman verse romance Beauty and Love by Galip, and a commentary on Rumi's Spiritual Couplets by Kenan Rifai She is working on a book about Platonism in the rest of the world. See less