Tudora Arnaut

Fedora (Tudora) Arnaut has worked since 1996 at the Comrat State University (Moldova), Eastern Mediterranean University (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus), and since 2000 at the Department of Turkic Studies of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Due to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Dr Arnaut is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford for a period of two years.

Dr Arnaut studies and teaches on topics related to Turkic folk literature (Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Karaim, Urum-speaking, Crimean Tatar), ashug literature, comparative analysis of the Turkic world, oral tradition of the Gagauz, modern Gagauz literature, and the pre-Islamic oral and written literature of the Turks.

During her scientific activity, Dr Arnaut has written more than 65 published articles on  Gagauz language and literature. She has edited and compiled nine books on the preservation and development of the Gagauz language and culture, translated seven books into Turkish and Gagauz, and is a co-author of textbooks on the Gagauz language prepared for Ukrainian secondary schools, where Gagauz can be studied as an independent subject. 

Dr Arnaut speaks Gagauz, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian, and Russian.