CV - Department of English Language and Literature

Education
PhD: Ege University, Social Sciences Institute, English Literature, Izmir, Turkey, 2000.
MA: Ege University, Social Sciences Institute, English Literature, Izmir, Turkey, 1995.
BA: Ege University, Faculty of Letters, English Language and Literature Literature Department, Izmir,
Turkey, 1992.
Education Degrees:
Ph.D., English Literature, Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, Izmir, Turkey, June 2000.
Dissertation: "Gender, Identity, Ideology: Discourse of the Oppressed in the Works of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner." English Literature, Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences,
Izmir, June 2000.
Thesis: "Rhetorical Analysis of Oscar Wilde's Plays." English Literature, Ege University, Institute of
Social Sciences, Izmir, 1995.
Language Proficiency:English, Bulgarian, French
Academic Positions Held:
Assist. Prof. Dr.: Ege University, 2001-to the present
Research Assistant: Ege University, 1992-2000
Publications:
1. "Semetey-I" ve "Semetey-II"; Manas Destanı Üzerine İncelemeler (Çeviriler-1), Türk Dil Kurumu
Yayınları. Yayına Hazırlayan: Fikret Türkmen, Ankara, 1995. 72-152.
2. "Assimilation or Hidden Fanaticism In The Stories 'Eli The Fanatic' and 'My Son The Fanatic,'" Ege
Journal of English And American Studies 11 (1998): 229-235.
3. "Kültür," Ege Journal of English And American Studies 11 (1998): 221-228. (translated article)
4. "Celebrating Mother Goddess, Subverting Male Authority: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Herland'" The
Journal of American Culture and Literature (2001-2002 Issue): 24-31.
5. "Discoursing the Body: Re-producing the Christian Myth in Michele Roberts' The Wild Girl,"
International 22nd All-Turkey English literature Conference, Proceedings, 2001.
6. " 'Body' as a Metaphor of 'Home' and 'Self-exile': Fay Weldon's Puffball." Selves at Home, Selves in
Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement. Proceedings of the 7th Cultural Studies Symposium,
2003.
7. "Memory and Remembering: Reclaiming Self and History in Wide Sargasso Sea," Interactions 13:2
(Fall 2004): 59-77.
8. "Revising Scripts of Femininity in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin," Interactions 16:2 (Fall
2007): 73-86.
9. "Re-writing and Mystifying Wilde's 'Art for Art's Sake' by Tom Stoppard," The OSCHOLARS Library,
2008. (http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Appendix/Library/Sroppard.htm).
10. "Memory and Survival: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills." 11th International Cultural Studies
Symposium. Memory and Nostalgia, 2007.
11. "Disquieting Ambivalence in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin." Journal of Social Sciences
40:8 (June 2008): 25-34.
12. "Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism," Ş-Şiir Dergisi 15 (1994): 22-23.
13. Detective Fiction as a Gendered Genre. Izmir: Ege University Press, 2008.
14. "D. H. Lawrence'ın Aşık Kadınlar ve Lady Chatterley'in Sevgilisi Romanlarında İstilacı Erillik."
Erkek Kimliğinin Değişe(meye)n Halleri. Ed. Huriye Kuruoğlu, İstanbul: Beta, 2009. 67-79.
Conference Papers:
1. "Feminine Subjectivities and Patriarchal Constructions in Fanny Burney's Evelina," Romantic Era
Novel Conference, Gröningen-Holland, 17-19 November, 1999.
2. "Discoursing the Body: Re-producing The Christian Myth In Michele Roberts' 'The Wild Girl,'"
Uluslararası 22. Tüm-Türkiye İngiliz Edebiyatı Konferansı, Konya, 25-27 Nisan, 2001.
3. "Disruptive Discourses: Gender Ideology in Schreiner's The Story Of An African Farm." TransMissions: Theory, Research and Teaching in British Literary and Cultural Studies in Europe, Budapest,
9-12 May 2002. (Sponsored and invited by the British Council)
4. " 'Body' as a Metaphor of 'Home' and 'Self-exile': Fay Weldon's Puffball." Selves at Home, Selves in
Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement. Ege University 7th Cultural Studies Symposium,
İzmir, May 8-10, 2002.
5. "Re-writing and Mystifying Wilde's 'Art for Art's Sake:' Tom Stoppard's Travesties," KCTOS:
Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies, Re-written Literatures: Transforming Texts,
Transforming Cultures Section, Vienna, 6-9 December, 2007.
6. "Memory and Survival: Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills" Memory and Nostalgia. 11th
International Cultural Studies Symposium. İzmir, May 9-11, 2007.
7. "Disquieting Ambivalence in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin." Second International IDEA
Conference: Studies in English, Hacettepe University, Ankara, 17-19 April 2007.
Panel papers:
"Anı Kitaplarının Edebiyattaki Yeri" söyleşiye panelist olarak katılmıştır. 12. İzmir Book Fair. Panelists:
Ayla Kutlu, Hidayet Karakuş, Nevin Koyuncu, Mehmet Atilla. Bilgi Yayınevi, 28 April 2007.
Grants
1998-1999 Central European University, Department of Gender and Culture, Doctoral Support
Program.
M.A. Theses Supervised:
1. S. Gökçe Özel: "Ideology, Woman, and Madness in Jean Rhys's Fiction," M.A., 2003.
2. M. Önder Göncüoğlu: "The Boundaries of Fact and Fiction Represented In John Fowles's
Mantissa," M.A., 2004.
3. Didem Erten: Virginia Woolf'un Mrs. Dalloway ve Adalet Ağaoğlu'nun Ölmeye Yatmak Eserlerinde
Toplumsal Bir Gerçekliğin Yansıması Olarak Ölümün Kişisel Temsilleri," M.A., 2004.
4. Orkun Kocabıyık: "On the Road to Nowhere: Chasing the Self in Postmodern Detective Novels,"
M.A., 2005.
5. Uğur E. Küçükboyacı: "3D Parody with Illusion and Reality," M.A., 2005.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
Seminars in Drama Studies I-II
Gender and Literature
Contemporary Women's Literature
Survey of English Literature I-II
Introduction to Literary Terms I-II
Graduate Courses Taught
Discourse and Ideology (MA)
Gender and Genre (MA)
Studies in British Literature II (PhD)
Service to the University
Activities in the Human Resources Group for the project "Universitem"
Other: Associate editor of the OSCHOLARS
Erasmus Staff Mobility Program Visits:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of English Studies, Athens, Greece, 2007
Università di Bologna, Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Ravenna, Italy, 2008.
Memberships
ESSE and IDEA