Charles Sabatos is head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies and a professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, where he researches and lectures on Central European, American and world literature. His monograph Frontier Orientalism and The Turkish Image in Central European Literature, for which he received a Fulbright fellowship at Comenius University and a research grant from the Slovak National Scholarship Program at the Institute of World Literature/SAS, was published in 2020 (it also appeared in Turkish in 2014). He has published articles on Slovak, Czech, and world literature in numerous academic journals and is co-editor with Katarina Gephardt and Ivana Taranenková of the forthcoming collection Home and the World in Slovak Writing: A Small Nation's Literature in Context. His translations from Slovak include Ever Green is… (Večne je zelený...) by Pavel Vilikovský, Four Elves and the Fairy (Štyria škriatkovia a víla) by Ján Uličiansky, and God’s Atoms (Atómy Boha) by Gejza Vámoš (the last of which was supported by the Trojica AIR residency program). He has also translated texts by Dominik Tatarka, Peter Karpinský and Svetlana Žuchová.
