His primary research interests are in transnational contexts of Central and Eastern European literary history, particularly modernist and contemporary fiction, as well as on literary exchanges between this region and Turkey. His monograph “Between Myth and History: The Turkish Image in Central European Literature” (Mit ve Tarih Arasında: Orta Avrupa Edebiyat Tarihinde Türk İmgesi, Bilge Kültür Sanat) was published in Turkish in 2014. In 2018, he is serving as guest editor of the journal World Literature Studies for a special issue on the notion of “frontier Orientalism.”