CV - Department of English Language and Literature

Education Degrees:
Ph.D., American Literature; Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A, August 1996.
Dissertation:
“Family Scenes: Variations on a Pattern in the Novels of Eudora Welty.”
Professors O. M. Brack and Marvin Fisher (Department of English), directors.
M.A., American Literature; Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, İzmir, Turkey; 1988.
Thesis: “Katherine Anne Porter’ın Eserlerinde Kadın Kavramı.”
B.A., English Language and Literature; Faculty of Letters, İzmir, Turkey; 1985.
Graduation Thesis:
“Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley.”
Teacher Training Certificate, Teacher Training Program; Ege University, Faculty of Social Sciences;
1984.
Positions Held:
Institution: Ege University, English Language and Literature Department; İzmir, Turkey; March 2009present..
Position: Professor.
Institution: Ege University, English Language and Literature Department; İzmir, Turkey; June 2002March 2009.
Position: Associate Professor.
Institution: Ege University, English Language and Literature Department; İzmir, Turkey; January 19982002.
Position: Assistant Professor.
Institution: Ege University, English Language and Literature Department; İzmir, Turkey; August 19961998.
Position: Lecturer
Institution: Arizona State University; Department of English; Tempe, Arizona; August 1993-June 1996.
Position: Graduate Teaching Associate: Teaching two writing courses per semester.
Institution: Ege University, English Language and Literature Department; İzmir, Turkey; May 19891992.
Position: Teaching & Research Associate.
Institution: Dokuz Eylül University, School of Foreign Languages; İzmir, Turkey;
Jan. 1987-May 1989.
Position: English Instructor: Teaching ESL and translation courses.
Institution: Various middle and high schools; İzmir, Turkey; May 1985-Jan.1987.
Position: English Instructor: Teaching English as a second language.
Publications:
“A Native Memoir: Writing a Life, Breaking ‘Silences All Around.’” accepted to be published in the
Proceedings of Third International American Studies Association World Congress, “Trans/American,
Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation,” University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-23, 2007.
“Restoried Identities: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Innovations and Reproductions of
Cultures and Societies. Proceedings of the International INST (Research Institute for Austrian and
International Literature and Cultural Studies) Conference. Ed. Herbert Artl et al. Wien: INST, 2006.
May 2006.
“From a New Paradise to a New Earth: European Myths and New World Alternatives Converse in
Linda Hogan’s Power.” Special issue of Litteraria Pragensia15.30 (2005): 51-57.
“Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Representation of Multiple Southern
Narratives.” The Unifying Aspects of Cultures. Proceedings of the International INST (Research
Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies) Conference. Ed. Herbert Artl et
al. Wien: INST, 2004. April 2004.
“Az összetett deli elbeszeles Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God cimü müveben.” Ami
a Kultura Összeköti. Ed. Hima Gabriella. Karoli Gaspar Reformatus Egyetem: Szerzok, Hungary,
2004. 119-29.
“Ellen Glasgow’s The Sheltered Life: A Bitter Critique of the Southern Cultural
Mythologies.” Interactions 12.13 (2003): 13-22.
“Subverting Cultural Narratives: Eudora Welty’s Use of Myths in The Robber Bridegroom.” Thieves of
Languages. Ed. Eleonora Chiavetta. Palermo: Annali della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Universita
di Palermo, La Memoria, 14, 2003. 111-120.
“Between Generations, Across Cultures: Exploring Female Memory in Women’s Fiction,” The
International Fiction Review 29.1&2 (2002): 62-8.
“Gendered Reinventions and Mythical Revisions in Women’s Texts: Continuities and
Intertextualities.” Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts. Ed. Theodora Tsimpouki and
Angeliki Spiropoulou. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002. 169-80.
“Rewriting the Madwoman: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ as a Turn-of-the-Century Response to Jane Eyre.”
Proc. 22nd All-Turkey English Literature Conference, Re-writing in/and English Literature:
Proceedings. Konya: Selçuk Üniversitesi Matbaası, 2002. 253-63.
“Weddings, Birthdays, Funerals: Family Reunions as Social Rituals in Eudora Welty’s Fiction.” The
Journal of American Culture and Literature: Rites and Rituals(2001-2002): 32-42.
“What Do These Women Want?: Pierre and the New World of Gender.” Melville “Among the Nations”:
Proceedings of an International Conference. Ed. Sanford E. Marovitz and Athanasios C.
Christodoulou. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001. 384-93.
“Crossroads of Stories: History, Fiction, Orality.” Crossroads of History: Experience, Memory,
Orality, XIth International Oral History Conference.Ed. Janis Wilton et al. Vol. II. İstanbul: Boğaziçi
University Printhouse, 2000. 523-528.
“No Adventures for Women in Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
Genteel Ideals and Vernacular Realities in Mark Twain.” The Journal of American Culture and
Literature The Milennium Special Issue (1999): 59-73.
“Melville's Fayaway: Puzzle Woman, Feminine Principle and Noble Savage in Typee.” Ege İngiliz ve
Amerikan İncelemeleri Dergisi (Aegean Journal of English and American Studies) 11 (1998): 23-31.
“‘The Story of an Hour’ or The Story of a Woman's Lifetime.” Ege İngiliz ve Amerikan İncelemeleri
Dergisi (Aegean Journal of English and American Studies) 11 (1998): 33-40.
“Didion's ‘On Going Home’: The Rhetoric of Fragmentation.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 6
(1997): 35-42.
“Kate Chopin's Problematic Novel: The Awakening, An Uncompleted Romance.” The Journal of
American Culture and Literature 15th Anniversary Special Issue (1997): 46-60.
“Eudora Welty on Writing an American Quilt: Justifying Women's Work in the American Literary
Canon.” The Centennial Review 40.3 (1996): 587-600.
“Katherine Anne Porter's ‘Maria Conception’: Exemplifying the Role of Religious Formation in
Womanhood.” Ege Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatı Dergisi (Aegean Journal of Language and Literature) 9
(1992): 271-275.
Publications in Turkish:
“Sessiz Kızların Kuyuları: Ayla Kutlu’nun ‘Kadınlar ve Kuyular’ Öykülerinde Sessizliğin Kırılışı.” Kültür
ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar 2006-2007 Seçkisi. İstanbul, 2008. 215-236.
“Bir Yazar Büyürken: Ayla Kutlu ve Zaman da Eskir.” Varlık 1199 (2007): 39-42.
“‘Hep Yaşayan’ Söze Methiye: Taş Üstüne Gül Oyması.” Akköy Kültür Sanat Edebiyat
Dergisi 44 (2007): 10-13.
“Sessiz Kızların Kuyuları: Ayla Kutlu’nun ‘Kadınlar ve Kuyular’ Öykülerinde Sessizliğin Kırılışı.” Kültür
ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar. Ekim 2006..
(Aynı makale, derginin Mart 2008’de kitap formatında yayınlanan seçkisinde yer alarak yeniden
basılmıştır.)
“Bir Yazar Geçmişe Bakarken: Kuşaktan Kuşağa Kadınlar.” Tarih ve Toplum 207 (2001): 13-18.
“Emir Bey’in Kızları, Ayla Kutlu’nun Kadınları,” Varlık 1108 (2000): 55-60.
Kadına Destan Yazmak, Kadını Tarihe Yazmak: Ayla Kutlu ve Kadın Destanı.” Kültür
Araştırmaları Dermeği ve Koç Üniversitesi Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, “Kimlik ve Kültür”
Sempozyumu Bildiri Kitabı. (basıma hazırlanıyor)
Bookreviews:
“Beauty and Love.” The International Fiction Review 34 (2007): 198-200.
“The Other Side of the Mountain.” Kadın / Woman 2000 Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi VI.1 (2005): 12325.
“The Chinese Femme Fatale: Stories from the Ming Period.” Kadın / Woman 2000 Kadın Araştırmaları
Dergisi VI.2 (2005): 117-22.
“The Man Who Was Mark Twain: Images and Ideologies.” Interactions 14.13 (2004): 105-106.
“The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir.” Journal of American Studies of
Turkey 20 (2004): 85-89.
“Postcolonial Literatures.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9 (1999): 103-105.
“Curfew.” The International Fiction Review 25 (1998):123-124.
Books and Book Chapters:
Kadın Yazarlardan Eski Masallar Yeni Meseller. İzmir: Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi, 2008.
“Remembering a Dismembered Past and Community: Linda Hogan’s Narratives of ‘Healing, History,
and Survival’.” The Language of Autobiography: Discourses of Gender, Class and Ethnicity. Ed.
Eleonora Chiavetta. Roma: XL Edizioni Sas, 2007. 99-125.
Sheltered Eyes Awakened: Rereading Chopin, Glasgow, and Hurston, Rewriting the Renaissance
South. İzmir: Ege Üniversitesi Basımevi, 2006.
Editorial Work:
Women in Dialogue: (M)uses of Culture. Ed. Dilek Direnç, Günseli Sönmez İşçi, Klara Kolinska. UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
When Away Becomes Home: Cultural Consequences of Migration. Ed. Günseli Sönmez İşçi, Dilek
Direnç, Gülden Hatipoğlu. İzmir: Ege University Press, 2007.
Inside Outside In: Emotions, Body and Society. Ed. Günseli Sönmez İşçi, Dilek Direnç, Züleyha
Çetiner Öktem. İzmir: Ege University Press, 2005.
Conference Papers:
“A Native Memoir: Writing a Life, Breaking ‘Silences All Around’” 3rd International American Studies
Association World Congress, titled “Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation,” University of
Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-23, 2007.
“Negotiating Reconstructed Identities: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Biennial
Conference organized by Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural
Sciences, titled “Reproductions of Cultures,” Vienna, Austria, December 9-11, 2005.
“Kadına Destan Yazmak, Kadını Tarihe Yazmak: Ayla Kutlu ve Kadın Destanı.”
Kültür Araştırmaları Dermeği ve Koç Üniversitesi Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, “Kimlik ve
Kültür Sempozyumu.” İstanbul, 14-17 Haziran 2005.
“From a New Paradise to a New Earth: European Myths and New World Alternatives Converse
in Linda Hogan’s Power.” European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference titled
“America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations,” Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic, April 2-5, 2004.
“Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Representation of Multiple Southern
Histories/Narratives.” Biennial Conference organized by Research Institute for Austrian and
International Literature and Cultural Sciences, titled “The Unifying Aspects of Cultures,” Vienna,
Austria, November 7-9, 2003.
“Ellen Glasgow’s The Sheltered Life: Out of Cultural Mythologies.” Thirteenth Annual Central New
York Conference on Language and Literature at the State University of New York College at Cortland,
USA, October 26-28, 2003.
“Subverting Cultural Narratives: Eudora Welty’s Use of Myths in The Robber
Bridegroom.” International Conference of Palermo University, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, titled
“Thieves of Languages,” Palermo, Italy, November 7-9, 2002.
“Rewriting the Madwoman: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ as a Turn-of-the-century Response to Jane Eyre.”
22nd All-Turkey English Literature Conference, “Rewriting in/and English Literature,” Selçuk
Üniversitesi, Konya, 25-27 Nisan 2001.
“Crossroads of Stories: History, Fiction, Orality.” XIth International Oral History Conference,
“Crossroads of History: Experience, Memory, Orality,” panel titled “Literature and Narrative,” İstanbul,
Turkey, June 15-19, 2000.
“Gendered Reinventions and Mythical Revisions in Women’s Texts.” International Conference of the
Hellenic Association for American Studies, “Culture Agonistes: Text Against Text,” Athens, Greece,
May 25-28, 2000.
“Between Generations, Across Cultures: Transmitting Women’s Stories in Fiction.” Women’s Studies
Conference, “We are the Stories We Tell: Women’s Contribution to Culture, Wisdom and Oral
Traditions,” Women’s Studies Program, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, May 18-21, 2000.
“Emir Bey’in Kızları, Ayla Kutlu’nun Kadınları.” “Türk Kadın Roman ve Öykü Yazarları Sempozyumu.”
Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara, 8-10 Nisan 1999.
“Weddings, Birthdays, Funerals: Family Reunions in the Novels of Eudora Welty.” European
Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, “Ceremonies and Spectacles: America and the
Staging of Collective Identities,” University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 3-6, 1998.
“What Do These Women Want?: Pierre and the New World of Gender.” First International Conference
of American Melville Society, “Melville ‘Among the Nations,’” Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997.
“Eudora Welty on Writing an American Quilt.” The Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, panel
titled “Communicating Feminine Identities,” Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 8-10,
1996.
Workshops:
“From Melting Pot to Mosaic: The Changing Role of Immigration in American Life.” American Studies
Center, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, October, 1998.
Workshop Organizer and Chair:
Organizer and co-chair of the panel titled “Multicultural Autobiography: Cultural ‘Plura’ in American
Self-Writing.” European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, “‘E Pluribus Unum’ or
‘E Pluribus Plura,’” University of Oslo, Norway, May 9-12, 2008.
Grants:
Fulbright Fellow: July 1992-July 1996.
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation International Fellow: July 1994July 1995.
M.A. Thesis Supervised:
Öztürk, A. Serdar. “A New Historicist Approach to James Joyce’s Dubliners,” Ege University, Institute
of Social Sciences, 2000.
Akçap, Hasan. “Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as Fictional Biography,” Ege University, Institute of Social
Sciences, 2001.
Sepetçi, Ufuk. “A Return to Myths in the Works of Carol Ann Duffy, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Margaret
Atwood, and Ayla Kutlu: Reinventing Myths in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction,” Ege University,
Institute of Social Sciences, 2002.
Civelekoğlu, Funda. “The Dystopia from Female and Male Points of View: The Handmaid’s Tale and A
Clockwork Orange,” Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2002.
Dalyanoğlu, Eyüp. “An Eco-critical Approach to the Novels of Virginia Woolf,” Ege University, Institute
of Social Sciences, 2002.
Savur, Gülsev Güler. “Women Writers and The Male-Female Double Bildungsroman: Emily
Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss,” Ege University, Institute of
Social Sciences, 2003.
Şenaydın, Ferah Türkkanı. “Female Victimization in Buchi Emechata’s The Joys of Motherhood and
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye,” Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2004.
Hatipoğlu, Gülden. “The Celtic Other: Ireland as Not-England,” Ege University, Institute of Social
Sciences, 2004.
Fountain, Dane. “Motivational Teaching Methods for the ESL Composition Course,” Ege University,
Institute of Social Sciences, 2004.
Ulus, Ekrem. “Mythography or Mythopoesis: P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound within the Frame of
the Twentieth Century Literary Criticism,” Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2005.
Kutlubay, Ezgi. “Identity Crisis and Subjectivity of Women in British and German Migrant Literature”
Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2005.
Çelenk, Tuğçe (Arıkan). “A Semiotic Approach to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,” Ege
University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2005.
Kovalev, Elvin Torunoğlu. “The Trauma of Dislocation and Ethnic Identity Crisis in The Novels Of
Linda Hogan, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi and Caryl Phillips,” Ege University, Institute of Social
Sciences, 2005.
Music, Pınar Önkal. “Representations of Trauma in Ethnic American Women Writers,” Ege University,
Institute of Social Sciences, 2006.
İçöz, Fulya. “Masalda Cadı: Ötekinin Arketipi” Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, Women’s
Studies Master’s Program, 2008.
Kolay, Hale. “Cahit Uçuk’un Özyaşam Öyküsü: Otobiyografi ve Kadın Tarihi.” Ege University, Institute
of Social Sciences, Women’s Studies Master’s Program, 2009.
Doctoral Dissertations Supervised:
Öztürk, A. S., “The Initiation Processes of Characters and Quest Motive in The Pilgrim’s Progress by
John Bunyan and in Beauty and Love by Şeyh Galip,” Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences,
2004.
Atilla, Aylin. “Rethinking History in Postmodern British Novel,” Ege University, Institute of Social
Sciences, 2006.
Gündüz, Atalay. “Turkey and Turks in British and American Travel Writing from 1850 to the Present.”
Ege University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2006.
İşçi, Sedat. “Eighteenth Century Realism and Daniel Defoe.” Ege University, Institute of Social
Sciences, 2007.
Courses Taught:
Graduate Courses:
Critical Theory in Praxis I
Critical Theory in Praxis II
Women’s Literature I
Women’s Literature II
Undergraduate Courses:
ENG 216 Survey of Early American Literature
ENG 224 Survey of Modern American Literature
ENG 413 Selections from American Literature
ENG 421 Contemporary American Literature
ENG 439 History of Literary Criticism
ENG 417 Contemporary Critical Theory
ENG 414 Comparative Literature I
ENG 422 Comparative Literature II
ENG 433 Studies in American Prose
Socrates -Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Program:
ModenaUniversity, Modena, Italy: 14-18 March 2005
Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland: 8-12 May 2006
Oviedo University, Oviedo, Spain: 23-27 April 2007
Masaryk University, Brno, Check Republic: 3-7 May 2009
Memberships:
TAED Türkiye Amerikan Etüdleri Derneği (American Studies Association of Turkey)
EAAS European Association for American Studies
IASA International American Studies Association