Trine Stauning Willert is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, UK. Previously she was Assistant Professor in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Copenhagen where she was a member of the research centre 'The Many Roads in Modernity: South-East Europe and its Ottoman Roots'.

Explores historical and literary narratives of the Ottoman past in contemporary Greek society and culture

Places the development of new Greek national identities within an international context, taking account of changing geopolitical power balances in Europe and Turkey's changing roles since 2000

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to heritage, literary and cultural studies, in order to offer new insights into how the Ottoman past continues to shape national identities

1. Introduction - The New Ottoman Greece: A Heritage in Search of Identity and Inheritors.- 2. New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Historiography, Education, and Music Studies.- 3. Fearing Neo-Ottomanism: Counter-discourses and Reactions to the 'New Ottoman Greece'.- 4. Cultivating Osmanalgia: Intersections of History and Fiction in Thessaloniki.- 5. Narrating the Nation and its (Ottoman) Legacy: The Greek Historical Novel and the Role of Fiction Writers.- 6. Appropriating the Ottoman Past in Three Novels: Greek-Turkish Friendship, Nostalgia and Religious Co-existence.- 7. Epilogue - Ottoman Greece from 1980 to 2018.