Spring 2012 Office Hours: MW 2:30-3:30, R 11-12

Roberta Micallef received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas in Austin in 1997. She taught Turkish language and culture courses as well as Women’s Studies courses at Uppsala University (1997-2000) and at the University of Utah (2000-2005) before accepting a position as Assistant Professor of Turkish at Boston University in 2005. She has published numerous articles in Turkish studies and gender studies and is currently working on an article about Turkish women political prisoners as well as a collection of articles about 19th- and 20th-century Middle Eastern travel narratives. She serves as Secretary of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages and is an active member of the Turkish-language-teaching community. She is among the first group to receive ACTFL training toward Turkish oral proficiency testing, and has received numerous grants for teacher training projects, professional workshops, and materials development.