Dr Hüseyin Alhas is an Assistant Professor and Department Vice Chair in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Social Sciences University of Ankara. He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University in 2014, his MA from the same department in 2017, and his PhD in 2024. His doctoral dissertation, The Shifting Faces of Epic Heroes: The Evolutionary Trajectory of Heroic Ideals in William Davenant’s Gondibert and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, examined how transformations in seventeenth century politics, religion, philosophy, and literary theory reshaped the idea of the epic hero. His doctoral research included a research period of twelve months at Durham University, supported by a TÜBİTAK 2214 A Visiting Researcher Grant.

Alhas works across epic studies, manuscript studies, computational philology, British Romanticism, Anglo Saxon heroic poetry, seventeenth century English literature, comparative poetry, translation, and Ottoman British literary relations. His research examines how heroic identities, cultural memory, and poetic authority are created, transmitted, and transformed across manuscript, print, linguistic, and historical contexts. His work combines close reading with archival investigation, textual history, comparative analysis, and digital research methods.

His publications have appeared in international peer reviewed journals including English Studies, The Seventeenth Century, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, The Explicator, and Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly. His recent research addresses Ottoman archival evidence concerning Lord Byron’s Missolonghi mission, representations of Ottomans in William Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida, the censorship of Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedy in the Ottoman Empire, Quranic textuality in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Thomas Hobbes’s theory of epic poetry, and the changing forms of heroic identity in seventeenth century literature. His publication record received the ASBÜ AHCI Publication Award in 2024 and 2025, as well as the university’s Field Specific Index Award in 2025.

Since 2019, Alhas has contributed the bibliography of scholarship published in Türkiye to “William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship”, the annual international bibliographical project published by Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly. He is also a poet and translator. His English translations of poems by Rüştü Onur, prepared with Ulaş Özgün, have appeared in Poetry. His current book project develops his doctoral research into a broader study of Davenant, Milton, and seventeenth century heroism.

Across his research and teaching, Alhas brings together traditional philological scholarship, archival research, comparative literary analysis, and an interdisciplinary approach to the historical development of poetry and heroic literature.