Peter Cherry received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. He joined the BIAA as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2017–18) and later held posts as Assistant Professor in Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University (2018–21) and as Visiting Lecturer at the University of West London (2021–22). From 2022–23, he was Communications and External Relations Officer for an NGO, before becoming Assistant Director at the BIAA. His first book, Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain was published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury in 2021. He is Principal Investigator on two British Academy-funded projects: Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture and Society (2025-2027) and Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions (2025-2026). Peter also represents the BIAA on the Academic Advisory Board of The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative. He has published journal articles and contributed to edited collections on topics related to Turkish and British literature, culture and cinema; generally through themes of gender, sexuality, race, travel, world literature, translation and migration. Peter also co-hosts the BIAA’s Heritage Türkiye podcast with Dr Işılay Gürsu.
Fields of Expertise: Late Ottoman and Turkish Literature and Culture; British Literature and Culture; British-Turkish Cultural Exchanges; Travel and Migration Writing; Comparative Literature; Theories of World Literature; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Masculinity Studies
