Res. Assist. Gülşah GÖÇMEN E-Mail: [email protected]

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Res. Assist. Gülşah GÖÇMEN
E-Mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Academic Titles
Research Assistant: 2011- …, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University
Research Assistant: 2010-2011, English Language and Literature, Western Languages and
Literatures, Aksaray University
Research Assistant: 2008-2010, American Culture and Literature, Başkent University
Academic Degrees
Ph.D.
: 2010-…, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University
Dissertation title
: “Ecological Interactions: The Sense of Place in E. M. Forster’s
Howards End, D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, and Ford Madox Ford’s
The Good Soldier”
Master of Arts
: 2007-2010, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University
Thesis Title
: An Analysis of the Collapse of Metanarratives in Winterson’s The
Passion, Gut Symmetries, and Weight: A Lyotardian Approach
Bachelor of Arts
: 2007, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University
Scholarships
The Council of Higher Education (Turkey) Scholarship. Visiting Scholar at English
Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. 15
August 2013 – 15 August 2014.
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Research Interests
The Novel, Literary Criticism and Theory, Ecocriticism, Place Studies,
Postmodern Fiction, Modernist Fiction, Contemporary Philosophy
Foreign Languages
English (Excellent), German (Average)
Publications
Book Chapters
 Dindar, Gülşah. “Derin Ekoloji Hareketi ve Ekoeleştiri: Bir Garip Şair Orhan Veli.”
Ekoeleştiri: Çevre ve Edebiyat. Ed. Serpil Oppermann. Ankara: Phoenix, 2012. 59-92.
Print.
 Dindar, Gülşah. “The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to “Naturality” or a
Deep Ecological Reappraisal of “Nature”?” The Future of Ecocriticism: New
Horizons. Eds. Serpil Opperman, Ufuk Özdağ, Nevin Özkan, and Scot Slovic.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 159-171. Print.
Proceedings
 Dindar, Gülşah. “Nostalgia Redefined in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.”
Kazuo Ishiguro and His Work: Proceedings of the Nineteenth METU British Novelists
Conference. Eds. Hülya Yıldız-Bağçe, Özlem Türe Abacı, Şule Akdoğan, et. al.
METU: Ankara, 2012. 57-64. Print.
Translations
 Dindar, Gülşah. “Havva’nın Savunması.” By Aemelia Lanyer. Ortaçağdan Onyedinci
Yüzyıla İngiliz Kadın Yazarlar. Ed. A. Deniz Bozer. Hacettepe: Ankara, 2014. 147150. Print.
 Dindar, Gülşah. Abstract translations: Encyclopedias about Muslim Civilisations. Ed.
Aptin Khanbaghi. Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Series. Edinburgh University Press
in Association with The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim
Civilisations, 2009. Print.
Poetry/Fiction
 Göçmen, Gülşah. “Ağıt.” Koridor Kültür, Sanat ve Edebiyat Dergisi Arts. 1.1 (2006).
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Conference Papers
1. Dindar, Gülşah. “Ted Hughes’s Dark Ecopoetics where ‘Camaraderie does not Hold’.”
The Tenth Biennial ASLE Conference, Lawrence, Kansas City/USA, 28 May-1 June
2013.
2. Dindar, Gülşah. “Questioning Environmental Ethics in the Absurdist World of Edward
Albee’s The Zoo Story.” Four-Footed Actors: Animals on Stage Conference, The
University of Valencia, Valencia/Spain, 12-14 Dec. 2012.
3. Dindar, Gülşah. “Douglas Dunn’s Elegies: Recreating the Sonnet through
Lamentation.” 11th ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English) Conference,
Boğaziçi University, İstanbul/Turkey, 4-8 Sep. 2012.
4. Dindar, Gülşah. “Jude the Liminal: a Man of Reason or Passion?” 11th ESSE (The
European Society for the Study of English) Conference, Boğaziçi University,
İstanbul/Turkey, 4-8 Sep. 2012.
5. Dindar, Gülşah. “Nostalgia Redefined in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.”
British Novelists: Kazuo Ishiguro and His Work, METU, Ankara/Turkey, 12-13 Dec.
2011.
6. Dindar, Gülşah. “From Hemingway to Current Climate Change: The versatile
symbolism of Mount Kilimanjaro.” Environmental Change, Cultural Change,
University of Bath, Bath/England, 1-4 Sep. 2010.
7. Dindar, Gülşah. “The Garip (Strange) Movement: A Poetic Return to ‘Naturality’ or
‘Nature’ itself?” International Conference on the Future of Ecocriticism: New
Horizons, Kemer-Antalya/Turkey, 4-6 Nov. 2009.
8. Dindar, Gülşah. “An Ecoconscious Reconstruction of the Atlas Myth in Jeanette
Winterson’s Weight.” “Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism” 12th Cultural
Studies Symposium, Ege University, İzmir/Turkey, 29 Apr.-1 May 2009.
9. Dindar, Gülşah. “Winterson’s Gut Symmetries: Exploring Infinite Probabilities: Is it
Love or Quantum Physics?” “Studies in English”, Third International IDEA
Conference, Ege University, İzmir/Turkey, 16-18 Apr. 2008.
Conferences Attended without Presentation
1. “Cognition, Neuroscience and the Arts.” March 1, 2014, Brown University, Providence, RI,
USA.
2. “The 129th Annual MLA Convention in Chicago.” 9-12 January 2014. Marriot Hotel,
Chicago, IL, USA.
3. “One Day, James Joyce...” 5 December 2011, Hacettepe University, Ankara, TURKEY.
4. “Native American Voices: Languages of Survival.” 16-17 November 2009, Hacettepe
University, Ankara, TURKEY.
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Professional Memberships
ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (2010-...)
Awards
Third Place Winner, Brain Child Poetry Contest, Hacettepe University, Ankara, 2004.