C - Department of English Language and Literature

Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü
Ege University, Faculty of Letters
Department of English Language and Literature
Bornova 35100, İzmir, Turkey
Phone: +90 232 3111975
e-mail: [email protected]
Education, Degrees
PhD: Ege University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, English Language and Literature,
İzmir, 1996.
Dissertation: “Changing Stories: Realism and Postmodernism in Doris Lessing’s Novels”
(1995), Ege University.
MA: Ege University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Western Languages and
Literatures, İzmir, 1989.
Thesis: “Comparison of Methods and Approaches Used in Teaching English as a Foreign
Language: A Turkish Perspective” (1989), Ege University.
BA: Dokuz Eylül University, English Language Teaching, İzmir, 1986.
Positions Held
Professor, Ege University, 2011Associate Professor, Ege University, 2005-2011
Assistant Professor, Ege University, 1996-2005
Research Assistant, Ege University, 1992-1996
Instructor of English, Ege University, 1987-1992
Publications
Articles and Encyclopedia Entries
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2015) “Confinement, Resistance and Freedom in Postcolonial
Women’s Writing,” Proceedings of Ege University 14th Cultural Studies Symposium. Ed. Nevin
Yıldırım Koyuncu, Scott Slovic, Klara Kolinská, İzmir: Ege Üniversity Press, 169- 176.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2013) “Eşsiz Bir Düş Gücü Kurmacası: Uğultulu Tepeler ve
Tutkulu Aşkın Yıkıcı Gücü,” Nüans: Journal of Art History. Ankara: Sistem, No: 3 (Spring/ Summer):
174-77.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2011) "Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration: Reconsidering
Literary and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century," IDEA: Studies in English. Ed. Evrim Doğan
Adanur, New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 47-58.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2010) “Flora Nwapa.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth- Century
Fiction. Gen. Ed. Brian W. Schaffer. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 1267-68.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2010) “Deviant Femininity as a Metaphor for Female Liberation in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth.” Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian Culture and the Art of Fiction: Essays for the
Bicentenary. Ed. Sandro Jung, Gent: Academia Press, 99-111.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2009) “Postcolonial routes and diasporic identities: Belonging and
displacement in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage and A Distant Shore.” Journal of Postcolonial
Writing, Abington, Oxen: Routledge, 45:2, 163-70.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2010) “Postcoloniality, Knowledge and Creativity in Buchi
Emecheta’s Early Autobiographical Fiction: In the Ditch and Second-Class Citizen”, TRANS:
Internet- Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, No: 17, 1-8.
http://www.inst.at/trans/17Nr/3-3/3-3 silkue17.htm.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2008) “Wonderful Adventures: Transcending Liminality and
Redefining Identity in Mary Jane Grant Seacole’s Autobiography.” Ariel, Calgary, Alberta: Calgary
University Press, 39: 1-2, 113-27.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2004) “The Postcolonial Feminist Discourse in Flora Nwapa’s
Women are Different.” World Literature Written in English, Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University
Print, 40: 1, 125-35.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2004) “‘Nation and Narration’: Cultural Interactions in Orhan
Pamuk’s My Name is Red.” TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, No:15, 1-10.
http://www.ins.at/trans/15Nr/05_03/silkue15.htm
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2003) “Transgressing the Linguistic Boundaries: The Feminine
Poetic Discourse in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” Interactions: Aegean Journal of
English and American Studies, İzmir: Ege University Publications, 12: 103-15.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2003) “Woman as the Unhistorical Other: Re-reading George
Eliot’s Middlemarch.” Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American Studies, İzmir: Ege
University Publications, 12: 89-102.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2001) “Postcolonial Perspectives: The Changing Image of Africa
in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” Proceedings of the 5th International Ege University Cultural
Studies Symposium, Special Issue, İzmir: Ege University Publications, 59-67.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2000) “A Post-Colonial Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness and Nostromo: Africa and South America as the Exotic Other.” Journal of English
Literature and British Culture, Ankara: Hacettepe University Publications, 8: 147-73.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2000) “Time and History in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: A
Re-reading.” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ankara: Çankaya University Publications, 1:
65-80.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (1998) “The Elements of Fantasy in Angela Carter’s Heroes and
Villains.” Aegean Journal of Language and Literature, İzmir: Ege University Publications, 11: 14758.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, Reşit Küçükboyacı (1996) “Characterisation Techniques in Doris
Lessing’s Novels.” 4th METU English Novelists Conference Proceedings, Ankara: METU
Publications, 19-47.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (1994) “Lost in the Funhouse or Lost in a Metafictional Text: A
Deconstructive Analysis.” Aegean Journal of Language and Literature, İzmir: Ege University
Publications, 10: 175-82.
Books and Chapters in Books
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2012) “Teaching Gender in a Turkish Context: A Case Study.”
Teaching Gender. Eds. Alice Ferrebe and Fiona Tolan. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:
Palgrave Macmillan, 173-88.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2011) Sömürgecilik Sonrası Roman ve Eleştirisi, İzmir: Ege UP.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2004) Industrialization, Modernity, and the Woman Question,
İzmir: Ege U P.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner (2003) Bağdat Yollarında Romanında Kimlik Arayışı ya da Türk
Kültüründe Diasporik Açılımlar.’ Kültür ve Modernite. Eds. Gönül Pultar, Emine O. İncirlioğlu,
Bahattin Akşit, İstanbul: Tetragon, 315-30.
Editorial Work
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, Aylin Atilla, İdil Aydoğan Biçer, eds., (2009) Proceedings of the
Third International IDEA Conference, İzmir: Ege University Publications.
Kırtunç, Ayşe Lahur, Gülriz Büken, Laurence Raw, Rezzan Kocaöner Silkü, eds., (2001)
New Cultural Perspectives in the New Millenium, İzmir: Ege University Publications.
Conference Papers
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner; Atilla Silkü, “Transatlantic Dialogues: City as Dystopic/Utopic
Space in Joan Riley’s The Unbelonging and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple,” Utopian Studies
Society 16th Annual International Conference: “Utopia and the Ends of the City”, Newcastle
University, Newcastle, England, 1-4 July 2015.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Writing History through Storytelling: Interpolation and
Postcolonial Transformation in the War Novels of Nwapa and Adichie.” 8th International IDEA
Conference, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, 16-18 April 2014.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Confinement, Resistance and Freedom in Postcolonial Women’s
Writing,” 14th International Cultural Studies Symposium, Ege University, İzmir, 08-10 May 2013.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner; Atilla Silkü, “Narratives of Identity in Guo Xiaolu’s A Concise
Chinese- English Dictionary for Lovers and Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake
Book,” Narratives of Difference in the Global Marketplace, The University of Northampton, England,
25-26 October 2012.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration: Reconsidering Literary and
Cultural Studies in the 21st Century.” 5th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Atılım
University, Ankara, 14-16 April 2010.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, ‘“Border Lives’: Dislocation and Diasporic Female Identity in Joan
Riley’s The Unbelonging and Waiting in the Twilight.” Re-Imagining Identity: New Directions in
Postcolonial Studies, Waterford, Republic of Ireland, 6-8 May 2009.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Animating the Body and Transgressing Borders: Curiosity,
Technology and Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”, The Novel and its Borders Conference,
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 8-10 July 2008.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Postcoloniality, Knowledge and Creativity in Buchi Emecheta’s
Early Autobiographical Fiction: In the Ditch and Second-Class Citizen”, Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies, Vienna, 6-9 December 2007.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Women, Literature and Social Change in the Victorian Period”,
Socrates-Erasmus Programme, Wroclaw University, Poland, 15-21 April 2007.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Deviant Femininity as a Metaphor for Female Liberation in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Gaskell Conference, Salford University,
Manchester, England, 22-23 September 2006.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Displacement and Mimicry in V. S. Naipul’s A House for Mr.
Biswas.” 1st International IDEA Conference, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, 24-26 April 2006.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “‘Nation and Narration’: Cultural Interactions in Orhan Pamuk’s
My Name is Red .” ‘The Unifying Aspects of Cultures Conference’ , Vienna, 7-9 November 2003.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Bağdat Yollarında: Hürü’nün Kimlik Serüveni ya da Türk
Kültüründe Diasporik Açılımlar.” (On the Road to Baghdat: Hürü’s Search for Identity or Diasporic
Openings in Turkish Culture), Culture and Modernism: Turkey Cultural Studies Symposium, Kemer,
25-27 October 2001.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Kim Reconsidered: the Two-sided Man’s Burden.”, Kipling
Conference, Cambridge, 5-7 September 2001.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner, “Postcolonial Perspectives: The Changing Image of Africa in
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.”, New Cultural Perspectives in the New Millenium: 5th
International Ege University Cultural Studies Symposium, Çeşme, 10-12 May 2000.
Silkü, Rezzan Kocaöner and Reşit Küçükboyacı, “Characterisation Techniques in Doris
Lessing’s Novels.” Doris Lessing and Her Works: 4th English Novelists Conference, METU, Ankara,
7-8 March 1996.
MA Theses Supervised
Menteşe, Dilek. “The Industrial Novel: Shirley, Hard Times and North and South”, Ege
University, 2015.
Karaman, Elvan. “The Rebirth of Women in the Renaissance Drama”, Ege University, 2011.
Adilova, Tamila. “Space and Identity in Andrea Levy’s and Zadie Smith’s Novels”, Ege
University, 2008.
Yaşayanlar, Gamze. “(Be)longing to/ for a Homeland: Hyphenated Identities in the Moor’s
Last Sigh, Half a Life and Sour Sweet”, Ege University, 2005.
Uzluer, F. Müge. “The Concept of Womanhood in the Novels of Flora Nwapa”, Ege
University, 2005.
Toral, Çelender B. “Translation: Rewriting in Other Wor(l)ds”, Ege University, 2005.
Çetin, Önder. “The Lost Souls: Reflections of Hybridity and the Sense of Being the Other in
Multicultural and Postcolonial English Literature”, Ege University, 2004.
Sülün, Ebru. “Hamlet and Ophelia: Mad Characters in Hamlet”, Ege University, 2003.
Karadağ, Çiğdem Duran. “Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of Africa: A
Comparative Analysis of Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”, Ege
University, 2003.
Şahin, Bahriye Pire. “Representation and Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: A
Rewriting of Charlotte Brontё’s Jane Eyre”, Ege University, 2003.
Turyel, Mati. “Female Characters from Male Point of View in the Works of John Osborne,
Tennessee Williams and Haldun Taner”, Ege University, 2002.
Peker, Cem. “Studies on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and William Golding’s Lord of
the Flies: A Psychoanalytic Approach”, Ege University, 2001.
PhD Dissertations Supervised
Alp, Çiğdem. “Modernity, Modernism and Women Novelists”, Ege University, 2012.
Nediceyuva, Şafak. “Germanic Heroic Code in Old English Literature”, Ege University,
2012.
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses
Fall Semester
Studies in Victorian Fiction
Studies in British Literature I
Spring Semester
Postcolonial Studies
Studies in British Literature II
Undergraduate Courses
Fall Semester
Eng 353 Autobiography and Fiction I
Eng 441 Colonial Literature
Eng 313 English Poetry
Spring Semester
Eng 356 Autobiography and Fiction II
Eng 324 Victorian Novel
Eng 432 Postcolonial Literature
Socrates-Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Programme
“Postcolonial Women’s Writing and Contemporary Fiction, Augsburg University,
Germany, 26 May-2 June 2010.
“The Postcolonial Novel”, University of Oviedo, Faculty of Philology, Spain, 4-11 May
2008.
“Nineteenth Century Women Novelists”, Wroclaw University, Institute of English Studies,
Poland, 15-21 April 2007
Other Academic Activities
“Third International IDEA Conference”, Studies in English. Ege University, Izmir, 16-18
April 2008, Conference Coordinator.
EACLALS 2011: Under Construction: Gateways and Walls, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul,
26-30 April 2011, Organizing Committee Member.
Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English and Language, Farabi
Coordinator.
IDEA (English Language and Literature Research Association), Executive Member.
Memberships
The Kipling Society.
ASAT (American Studies Association of Turkey).
EAAS (European Association for American Studies).
PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association), Nottingham.
The Gaskell Society.
IDEA (English Language and Literature Research Association).
ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English).
PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association).
EACLALS (The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies).