Victoria Rowe Holbrook has been teaching philosophy in the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University since 2009. She teaches courses such as "Architecture and Philosophy" and "Self and Space." She translates and writes. Recent translations include: O Humankind: Yā-Sīn by Cemalnur Sargut (Louisville: Fons Vitae 2021), a Turkish compilation of commentaries on chapter 36 of the Quran; Listen: Commentary on the Spiritual Couplets of Mevlana Rumi by Kenan Rifai (also Fons Vitae, 2011), Turkish prose commentary and Persian verse; The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Shop Window by Nurdan Gürbilek (London: Zed 2010), Turkish essays in cultural and literary criticism. Two recent articles of hers on relationships between Ancient Greek and Islamic philosophy are: “Metaphysics of Beauty in Islam,” Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia vol. XVII, fasc. 1, 45-51.(2022) and “Plato, Fetters Round the neck, and the Quran,” Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensi, vol. XVI, fasc. 4, 27-45 (2021).

A recent piece of art criticism is her “Being with a Painter,” in The Living Thing About a Painting, a catalog for a painting exhibition by Jill Bullitt (Istanbul: Kiraathane Edebiyat Evi 2022). She is now working on relationships between Islamic philosophy and German Idealism.

Metis Publishing in Istanbul has asked Victoria to write a memoir, and Birgül Oğuz has just finished the Turkish translation. It will be published in November 2024. The title is still under consideration. In the past year, she wrote three articles staking out new territory: "Theôria in Islamic Platonism," forthcoming in Refik Güremen (ed), Theôria as Cognition in Plato (Brill); "Divided Line and Degrees of Being: Plato and Islamicate Cosmology," forthcoming in The Reception of Plato From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, eds. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, George Steiris, George Arabatzis (De Gruyter); and "The Separation of Goodness and Beauty: Plato, Galip, Lacan," forthcoming in Challenging Conventions: Love, Lovers, and Beloveds in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry, ed. Christiane Czygan (De Gruyter).