IRAKLEOUS STYLIANOS

STYLIANOS IRAKLEOUS

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Position

LECTURER

Entity

Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies

Building/ Office

Fragkopoulos,

Address

65, Kallipoleos Ave.

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Stelios Irakleous obtained his PhD from Leiden University. He holds a BA from the University of Cyprus and an MA from Leiden University. His research is focused on Karamanlidika, Ottoman language and literature, and the linguistic and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean. He was previously employed in the research projects “An Electronic Corpus of Karamanlidika Texts” and “Migrations: Identity Preservation and Identity Transformation: Asia Minor and Cyprus, Past and Present” and "CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East". He has taught previously at Leiden University and the University of Cyprus.

Karamanlidika, Historical Linguistics, Ottoman language and literature, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic and Cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Books

Irakleous S., Michael N.M., Koutoupas A. (eds.) Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Asia Minor, Cyprus and Egypt (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).

Book chapters

Irakleous S., “From Asia Minor to Cyprus: The use and loss of Turkish language amongst the Asia Minor refugees and their descendants in Cyprus.” In Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Asia Minor, Cyprus and Egypt, edited by Stelios Irakleous, Michalis N. Michael, Athanasios Koutoupas, 140-171 (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2022).

Irakleous S., “Karamanlidika is Ottoman; Viewing the pages of Anatoli”, In Press and Mass communication in the Middle East, Festschrift for Martin Strohmeier, edited by Börte Sagaster, Theoharis Stavrides & Birgitt Hoffmann, 65-88 (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press 2017).

Irakleous S., “Sociolinguistic aspects of Αγγελιαφόρος Τζοτζουκλάρ ιτζούν”, In Cultural encounters in the Turkish-speaking communities of the late Ottoman Empire, edited by Evangelia Balta, 393-411 (Istanbul: Isis Press 2014).

Articles

Irakleous S., “Language and society in late 19th and early 20th Cyprus through the work of Vasilis Michaelides: Turkisms and multilingual poetry”. Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, Vol. 55 (2025) 337-365.

Irakleous S., “The cataloguing of the Turkish Cypriot Ottoman newspapers’ archive of the Press and Information Office in Cyprus. Initial description and remarks.” Hyphen, a typographic forum, Vol. 13, No. 19 (2021): 67-77.

Irakleous S. and Bakirtzis N., “Karamanlides at Saint John Lambadistis Monastery in Kalopanagiotis: Pilgrimage Votives, Architecture and Sacred Landscape.” Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, Vol. 50 (2020) 383-405.

Irakleous S., “Dayandı da yaşadı: Reading between the lines of Serapheim Attaliates’s and Kykkos Monastery relationship.” Special Issue edited by Michalis N. Michael, Archivum Ottomanicum,Vol. 32, (2015): 179-197.

Irakleous S., “On the development of Karamanlidika Writing Systems, based on Sources of the Period 1764-1895.” Mediterranean Language Review, Vol. 20 (2013): 57-95.