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EMSAL SEMA EGE (SEMA EMSAL EGE)

ANKARA UNIVERSITY

Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi

(Faculty of Languages and History-Geography)

Department of English Language and Literature (1936)

Education

- PhD: Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

-MLitt: Department. of English Studies, University of Strathclyde

-MA: University of Ankara, Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, Department of English

Literature

-BA: University of Ankara, Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, Department of English

Literature

-High School: Turk Egitim Dernegi Ankara Maarif Koleji (Ankara College)

Academic Affiliations

-University of Ankara, Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, (Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi

[DTCF] ), Department of English Literature, 1989-

-Northern Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean University, English Coordinator, 1987-1988

Other Universities taught at (while also teaching at DTCF)

-Middle East Technical University (Ankara); Faculty of Education, Department of English Language

Teaching, 2002

-University of Atılım (Ankara), 1997-1999

- VISITING PROFESSOR - SPAIN

ERASMUS Program

University of Basque Country -Universidad Del Pais Vasco- November 13-20, 2011

Courses Taught:

-“Literature of the Second Language (British and Americasn Literature);

-“US Literary Texts”;

-“History and Culture in the English Speaking countries” (US History and Culture)

Publications

Memoir

Compiled and Introduced. 75. Yıl, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı Anı

Kitabı: Geçmişten Geleceğe, Süreçte Bir Gün -8 Nisan 2011 (Memoir: The Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the

Foundation of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography and the Department of English Language

and Literature) Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları, December 2014, ISBN 978-605-136-193-2 (391 pages)

(Turkish)

Books

1.Four Works of Horror in English Literature,1995 (Turkish)

2.Science, Scepticism, and an Ironic Myth, 2001 (English)

3.Dreaming of Istanbul in Scotland (36 Poems), Istanbul, 2004 (Turkish)

4.The Colours of Istanbul, (100 Poems) Istanbul, 2005 (Turkish)

5.Wanderings in the Land of the ‘Thistle’, Scotland (25 Poems) (English, Unpublished)

Translation

1.Helen With the High Hand, Arnold Bennett, Turkish Ministry of Culture Publications, Ankara, 2000

2.Stories from English Literature, Ankara, 2000

3.Tales of Horror in English Literature, Ankara, 2000

4.Stories from English Literature, Turkish Ministry of Culture Publications, Ankara, 2001 [Daniel Defoe, Maria

Edgeworth, S. Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, M.R. James J. Conrad, H.G. Wells, Doris Lessing]

5. Translations from Contemporary World Literatures, ed. Gürsel Aytaç (Prof.), Turkish Ministry of Culture Publications,

Ankara, 1999 [Rupert Brooke (poems), Virginia Woolf (Proffesıons for Women- ‘Angel in the House’), Malcolm

Bradbury (Eating People is Wrong), Doris Lessing (The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ]

6. Selections from World Travel Literatures, ed. Gürsel Aytaç (Prof.), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Ankara, 1994 [Lord Byron

(Travels), J.M. Synge (Aran Islands), H.G. Wells (Autobiography)]

Articles

- 'Felsefi Bir Yorumlama: Romantik Edebiyatın Özü ve Darwin Öncesi Romantik Dönem Şair ve Yazarlarını Darwin Sonrası

Ütopya/Distopya Yazarı Olarak Okuyabilmek', ('Reading the Romantics as post-Darwinian Utopians/Dysyopians'), Batı Kültür ve

Edebiyatlarında Romantizm, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, ss. 363-397, Ankara, 2014. ISBN 978-605-136-183-3 (Turkish)

-'İngiltere'de Aydınlanma; İçsel ve Dışsal Sınırların Aşılması` (Enlightenment in England: Transcending the Limits -

Inner and Outer`), Batı Kültür ve Edebiyatları Kitabı, (in The Book of the Western Cultures and Literatures) Dil ve Tarih-

Coğrafya Fakültesi, pp. 471-518 (465-512) Ankara, 2014. ISBN 978-605-136-134-5 (Turkish)

- 'Yeni Bir Kıtada, Amerika'da, Kimlik Oluşturmak ve Ulus Olmak, Bradford'dan B, Franklin'e, Jefferson'a, ve P.

Frenau'ya' ('The Rise of a New Nation in America, from Bradford to B. Franklin, Jefferson, and P. Frenau'), Littera,

vol. 33, Ankara, 2014 (Turkish)

- ‘Oscar Wilde, the Aesthete – H.G. Wells, the Scientist, and “The Rediscovery of the Unique”’ in Wilde’s Viles: Studies

of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Annette M. Magid,

Cambridge Scholars Press, ISBN 13:978-I-4438-4328-7; ISBN: I-4438-4328-8, 2013

- 'The Lonely Voyagers at the "Salted Death "; from Shakespeare to Darwin, from Coleridge to Melville, from Defoe

and Swift to Poe and Conrad ', Littera, vol. 30 Ankara, June 2012, pp. 97-112

- 'The Acclaimed Outsiders: Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells', Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi

Dergisi, (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Journal), Cilt/vol: LII 2012, Ankara, 1-21

- 'Doris Lessing and H.G. Wells, The Time Travellers, "The Historians of the Future” ' Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

2011. ISBN(13): 978-1-4438-2993-9

-'William Golding and Doris Lessing: The Island, the Planet, and Cosmic Determinism' , Littera, vol. 28 Ankara, 2011,

pp. 79-92

-‘Üç Ülke, Üç Kadın Yazar: V. Woolf (1882-1941), H. E. Adıvar (1884-1964), ve Katherine A. Porter (1894-1980)’

(‘Three Different Countries, Three Different Female Writers- V. Woolf, H.E. Adıvar, Katherine. A. Porter), Littera, vol.

27 Ankara, December, 2011 (Turkish)

- ‘İngiliz ve Amerikalı Yazarlar: Savaş Konusu ve Unsurları (1800-1955)’ [‘Approaches to War in English-American

Literature (1800-1955)’ ] Littera, vol. 26, Ankara, December, 2011 (Turkish)

- ‘A Brief Look at Darwinism, American Industrialism, and English Scientific Fantasy, 1880-1914’, Littera, vol. 25

Ankara, December,

- Amerika’da Kommunistik Yerleşkeler, Utopia ve Reform, 1800-1900’ (‘Communistic Settlements in the United States

of America, Utopia, and Reform, 1800-1900’ ) Littera, vol. 23, Ankara, December 2008 (Turkish)

- ‘Has Anything Changed from “The Taming of the Shrew ”?’ -Branch of the European Society for the Study of English

and American Studies, Universitatea “Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Faculty of Letters,

Shakespeareana 2008, Galati University Press, Romania

- ‘The Food and the “Food of Growth”; from the Kitchen to the Laboratory -from the Food Grown in the Garden to the

Food Made by the Scientist’, T.C. Kültür Üniversitesi, Istanbul, March 2008

- ‘Sanat Sanat için ve Fikir Romanı; Benzerlikler ve Farklılıklar' (‘ “Art for Art’s Sake ” versus “Art for Propaganda”;

The Differences and Similarities’, Akşit Göktürk’ü Anma Konferansı (In the Memory of Akşit Göktürk), University of

Istanbul, Istanbul 2007 (Turkish) P S???????

- ‘İngiliz Amrikan Edebiyatında Militarist Düşünceler’ ‘Notions of Militarism in the Nineteenth Century American and

English Literature), Littera, vol. 21, Ankara, December 2007 (Turkish) P S???????

- '18 .yy ve 19 yy. İngiliz ve Amerikan Yazınlarında Gelişim, Yazar, ve Yazım (Sanat, Bilim, Bilgi) (‘Progress and

Literature: Art, Science, and Knowledge in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English and American Literary

Texts’) , Littera, vol. 20, Ankara, June 2007 (Turkish)

- ‘18. ve 19 yy. İngiliz Edebiyatında Beden ve Akıl’ (‘ The Body and the Mind in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

English Literature, Akşit Göktürk’ü Anma (In the Memory of Akşit Göktürk), University of Istanbul, Istanbul 2007

(Turkish)

- ‘Milliyetçilik ve On dokuzuncu Yüzyıl İngiliz ve Amerikan Edebiyatı' (‘Patriotism in the Nineteenth Century English

and American Prose and Poetry’, Littera, vol. 19. Ankara, June, 2006 (Turkish)

- ‘Shakespeare as a Universalist –“Unchangefulness in the Midst of Change” ’, Branch of the European Society for the

Study of English and American Studies, Universitatea “Dunerea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Faculty of

Letters, Shakespeareana 2006, Galati University Press, 2006, Romania

- ‘Edebiyat, Çocuklar, ve Toplum (‘Literature, Children, and Society’), The Memory Book: The Eightieth Anniversary

of the Foundation of the Republic), University of Ankara, 2003 (Turkish)

- ‘Rupert Brooke, “Gezi”’, The Memory Book: The Sixty Sixth Anniversary of the Foundation of The Faculty of Literatures

and Social Sciences, (Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Altmış Altıncı Kuruluş Yıldönümü Anı Kitabı), University of Ankara,

2002 (translation)

- ‘The Battle of the Wits: Fabian Society and H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw’, University of Ankara , The Journal of the

Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 2000, No.

40

- ‘Aldous Huxley and his Dilemma’, The Journal of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences (T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 2000, No. 40

- ‘Robinson Crusoe, Bir İyimserlik ve Kişisel Başarı Öyküsü’ ('Crusoe, A Story of Optimism and Individual Success’),

Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Ankara, Spring 1995 (Turkish)

- ‘Edward Bellamy, “Machine Culture” and the American Reader’, The Journal of the Faculty of Literatures and Social

Sciences (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 1994-1995, 37 (English)

- ‘The Path to a Saner World’, The Journal of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences 1994-1995, 37 Ankara

(English)

- ‘G.K. Chesterton, The Superman and the Common Man’, The Journal of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences,

1994-1995, No 3, Ankara (English)

- ‘E.M. Forster, Sanat ve Propaganda’, (‘E.M. Forster, Art and Propaganda’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Spring 1994, Ankara

(Turkish)

- ‘Zamyatin, Düzen, ve Mutluluk’ (‘Zamyatin, Order, and Happiness’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Winter 1994, Ankara

(Turkish)

- ‘Ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ve fin de siecle Edebiyatı’ (‘Nineteenth Century; fin de siecle Literature’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı,

Spring 1993, Ankara (Turkish)

- ‘Sosyo-ekonomik Roman –İngiliz, Amerikan’ (‘Socio-economic Novel; English-American Literature’), Gündoğan

Edebiyatı, Winter 1993, Ankara (Turkish)

- ‘Anti-Science, Anti-Technology Attitude, 1870-1900- United States of America and Britain’, The Journal of the Faculty

of Literatures and Social Sciences, 1992, No.2 , Ankara (English)

- ‘Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, the Differences’, The Journal of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, 1991, No.1

Ankara(English)

Paper Presentations/ Chair at International Conferences

- 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), University at Buffalo, (Susquehanna

University) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 'The Influence and Lyrical Epitome of Wilde's Stories Illustrating

Children's Suffering', April 3-6, 2014

- Society for Utopian Studies, College of Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, USA, 'From Wellesley to "Bosporus"

: An American Female Utopia Realized in Istanbul', November 14-17, 2013

- 3rd

International BAKEA Symposium of Western Cultural and Literary Studies, 'The History of Evil Innovators in

English and American Fiction: "Fatal Science" in the "Fatal" Garden, the "Fatal" Cellar, the "Fatal" Room, and the

"Fatal" Island '”, Gaziantep, Turkey, October 9-11, 2013

- Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada

‘ “The Jolly Corner” of the “Buried Alive”: The Utopia of the Distressed Individual in Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde,

Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and Doris Lessing’, October 4-7, 2012

- Chair: Session 37 ‘THOMAS MORE’, Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2012

- 43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA in association with John Fischer College),

Rochester, New York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

“ ‘Crusoes’ in Shakespeare, Swift, Melville, Darwin, Twain, Conrad, and Wells: ‘Crusoes or Not?’

- Organizing Chair: 43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), John Fischer College,

Rochester, New York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

PANEL I: “‘Ancient Mariners’ and the Sea, the Deck, and the Island”

Papers Presented:

-“The Antebellum Anxieties of Race and Gender in E. A. Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (USA)

-“Being a True Account of Susan Barton: The Unknowable in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (USA)

-Dual Instincts:Dueling,Voyaging and the Pleasure Principle in Conrad’sTales (USA)

- Organizing Chair: 43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), John Fischer College,

Rochester, New York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

PANEL II: “The Seafarers –Victims or Heroes?”

Papers Presented:

-Conrad’s Sea and Ship as a Paradigms of Paradoxical Unities” (UK)

-‘The Changing Psychology at Sea: Melville’s Moby Dick and Conrad’s ‘Typhoon’ “ (Turkey)

- Dashed All to Pieces, Tempests and Other Natural Disasters in Literary Image, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de

Letras, Portugal, ‘Catastrophe as the Saviour –H.G. Wells (In the Days of the Comet) and H. Rahmi Gurpinar (A

Wedding under the Comet)’, 1-3 December 2011.

- Ankara University, 2nd International Conference –Literature and Science, Turkey, ‘Streets of London’, November 3-5,

2011

- Society for Utopian Studies in association with Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, The United States

of America; ‘Romantic Poetry –The Real and Eternal Archive of Utopia’, October, 2011

- Evelyn Waugh Society, Somerset, Bath, United Kingdom, "E.Waugh’s 'Vile Bodies' - H.G. Wells’s 'Samurai'

”, August 2011

- 42st Northeast Modern Languages Association Convention, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, The

United States of America; ‘Doris Lessing and William Golding: The Victims of Pre-Destination’, April, 2011

- Society for Utopian Studies (in association with Carleton University) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The United States of

America; ‘Virginia Woolf and Woolfs of Other Lands’, October, 2010

- 41st Northeast Modern Languages Association Convention (Host Institution McGill University), Montreal, Canada;

‘Souls, Secrets, and Stars, Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells –Fin de Siècle Observers’, April 2010

- Joseph Conrad Society in association with Chapman University -Conrad Under California Skies- Los Angeles, The

United States of America: ‘Conrad, “The End of the Tether” and H. G. Wells, “The Mind at the End of Tether” ’,

January 2010

- University of Atılım, Idea Conference, Ankara; ‘Doris Lessing and H. G. Wells, Mankind in the Making’, April 2010

- University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), Portugal,(Dis)entangling Darwin; ‘From the Galapagos Islands to the

Island of Dr Moreau, From the “Origin of Species” to “the War of the Worlds”, November, 2009

- University of Presov, Slovakia, Crossing the Boundaries –Transgressing the Boundaries in New Literatures in English;

‘The Ottoman Sultans and the English Men of Letters, “Down and Out in Paris”, London and Istanbul’, October 2009

- Chair, University of Presov, Slovakia, Crossing the Boundaries –Transgressing the Boundaries in New Literatures in

English; Session: American Post Colonial Crossings, ‘Crossing the Boundaries and Frontiers , 26 October 2009

- University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), Portugal, 10th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society; ‘The

Prophet as the “Superman” and “The Game of Cheat the Prophet” ’, July 2009

- University of Ankara, International Symposium, Literature and Science I, ‘War in English and American Literary

Texts, 1800-1970’, May, 2009 (Turkish)

- 9th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society in association with University of Limmerick, Ireland; ‘The

Child of Nature, “The Yellow-Breached” Philosophers versus The Children of the “Machine Culture”, “The Enfant

Terrible”’, July 2008

- Keynote Speaker, Shakespeare 2008, Universitatea “Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Romania; ‘Has

Anything Changed since the “Taming of the Shrew” ?’ April, 2008

- University of Ankara, The Republic and the Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya; ‘The Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya

and What We Owe to the Departments of American and English Literature’, May 2008

- Chair , The Republic and the Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya; May 2008

-. University of Kültür, Istanbul, The Representations of Food in British Literature, ‘The Food and the “Food of Growth”

’, Istanbul, November 2007

- Keynote Speaker, Universitatea “Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Romania, Shakespeare 2006 ;

‘Shakespeare as a Universalist’, April 2006

- The Society for Utopian Studies, Colorado Springs, The United States of America;

‘ “From Paradise Lost” to “Paradise Gained”, The Yearnings of Female Characters in Works Which are not Utopias’,

October, 2006 (the paper was accepted for the Conference; the full paper was sent via email though, for health reasons,

the Conference could not be attended )

- University of Ankara, Literary Texts, International Symposium; ‘Nineteenth Century American-English Literature and

Patriotism’, Ankara, November 2006 (Turkish)

- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Symbiosis:, Anglo-American Literary Relations, Biennial Conference; ‘ “The

Cry of the Children”, Children as the Symbiosis on Both Sides of the Atlantic’, 30 June- 3 July 2005

- The Society for Utopian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, The United States of America;‘The Call of the Wild in Utopia’,

November 1999

- University of the West of England, Bristol, The United Kingdom, Anglo-American Textual Relations, Symbiosis; ‘

“Passages to India”, The Moses and the Enfant Terrible, the Masters of Symbiosis’, July 1999

- Magee College, Derry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Borders and Crossings; ‘ “Down and Out” in Paris, London,

and Istanbul’, July 1998

-. The University College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, The United Kingdom,

Symbiosis Inaugural Conference, Anglo-American Textual Relations; ‘Reversing the Voyage of “Mayflower”’, March

1997

- 15th All-Turkey English Literature Conference, The British Council in association with the University of Hacettepe,

Ankara; ‘The Martian Attack on Victorian Society’, April 1994

- The H.G. Wells Society in association with North London University, London, The United Kingdom, The H.G. Wells

Society Annual Conference; ‘The Critical Outsider and his Political Rhetoric’, September 1993

- Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus, Nicossia; ‘Science and Western Literature’, June 1988

Paper presentations/chairs at national conferences/ symposiums

-Panel Organizer and Speaker. 'Gelecekten Önceki Gelecek, Geleceği Gelecekten Önce Görmek'

(' "The Future" [that comes] Before the Future; To See the "Tomorrow" Before the Tomorrow'), '), Dil ve Tarih-

Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara, May 13, 2014 (Turkish)

-Panel Organizer and Speaker. 'İngiliz ve Amerikan Edebiyatlarında Sömürge Konusu' ('Ideas of Colonization and

Expansionism in English and American Literatures '), Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara, May 14, 2014

(Turkish)

-Chair at 21st British Novelists Conference: The Bronte Sisters and Their Work, Middle East Technical University, Faculty

of Education, Ankara, December 12-13, 2013

- Organizer- Presentation: Prof Dr Sema E Ege, “İstanbul Poems” (“Istanbul Poems by Sema E Ege ”), T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, 15 May, 2013, 13.30 (Turkish)

- Organizer- Presentation: Prof Dr Sema E Ege, “İngiliz Edebiyatı Şiir Dinletisi” (Poetry Reading -English poems), T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, 15 May, 2013, 11.00 (English)

- “Düşlerin ve Gerçeklerin Edebiyatı, Edebiyatın Gerçekleri Şekillendirmesi –İngiliz / Amerikan Edebiyatlarından

Örnekler”, (‘The Impact of Reality on Literature and the Impact of Literature on Reality –English and American

Literatures)’ T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, 28 February 2013, 14.30

- Chair: 20th METU British Novelists Conference: Salman Rushdie and His Work, December 12-13, December 2012,

Mİddle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

- ‘Yetmiş beşinci Yıl Teşekkürü’ (‘An Acknowledgement of Gratitude: What we Owe to the Teachings at the

Department of English Studies and the Department of American Culture and Literature’), Ankara University, April

2011 , Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of DTCF (Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences)

- Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, The Society of English Literature and Language (İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Topluluğu

[IDEAL], ‘Literature and Truth’, December 2008 (Turkish)

-University of Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk;

‘The World Order -One Writer and Four Politicians: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, W. Churchill, and Stalin’

, March 2008, Istanbul

- University of Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk;

‘The Challenge of the Understandings of the Novel: “Art for Art’s Sake” and “The Novel of Ideas” ’, March 2007,

Istanbul

- University of Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk;

‘Reason and Body in English Literature –the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century’, March 2006, Istanbul

-Chair, Middle East Technical University, British Novelists Conference: James Joyce, April 2005, Ankara

- Chair, Middle East Technical University, British Novelists Conference: Joseph Conrad, December 2004, Ankara

-University of Ankara, The Eightieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Republic;

‘Literature and Society’, 2003

- University of Ankara, The Sixty sixth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya; ‘Rupert

Brooke’, 2002 (Translation, Poetry Reading)

-Turco-British Association, Ankara, ‘The Concept of Time in Edwardian Literature’, October 1997

-British Council, Feedback Seminar, ‘.H.G. Wells’, Ankara, December 1993

Some of the International Conferences attended without a paper presentation

- The H. G. Wells Society in association with The Polytechnic of North London, London, The United Kingdom, Annual

Conference of the H.G. Wells Society, September 1987, 1989, and 1991

- International Symposium, Eaton Programme for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies, The Centenary of The Time

Machine; The H. G. Wells Society (Host Institution Imperial College of Science and Technology), London, July 1995

- International Conference of Science Fiction, University of Liverpool, The United Kingdom, July 1996

Some of the National Conferences/Symposiums attended without a paper presentation

-University of Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memmory of Akşit Göktürk; March 2009

- Middle East Technical University, Ankara, British Novelists Conference, Doris Lessing, March 1996

-British Council-All Turkey English Literature Conferences (Ankara, Istanbul, Eskisehir etc.) (1987, 1989, 1990, 1992)

Administrative Duties

- Member: Ankara University Foreign Academic Relations Board (The Rector’s Office) (December 2008- June 2012 )

- Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, DTCF -Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences,

Ankara University (December 2006- April 2008)

- Member: The Administrative Board of DTCF -The Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, Ankara University

(June 1998- February 2001)

-Member: The Advisory Board for Scholarships (for the Faculty academics to conduct research abroad), DTCF -

Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, Ankara University (June 1998- October 2003)

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-Head of the English Language Teaching Department, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Ankara University (July 2003-

May 2006)

- Member: The University Administrative Board, Atılım University, Ankara (December 1997)

Academic/Administrative Duties

- Jury Member, Student Competition: “The Sense of Belonging to DTCF” in celebration of the Seventy Fifth

Anniversary of the Foundation of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences (DTCF), Ankara University

(September 2011-January 2012)

-Advisory Board: “2nd

International Conference –Literature and Science”, the Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the

Foundation of the Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences (DTCF), Ankara University (April-November 2011)

-Organising a Panel for North East Modern Languages Asscociation March 2012 (May 2011-March2012)

- Advisory Board: Programme for the Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Faculty of Literatures and

Social Sciences (DTCF), Ankara University (May 2010- )

- Member: Advisory Board, The Journal of The Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, DTCF, Ankara University

(June 1998- February 2001)

- Member: Editorial Board, The Journal of The Faculty of Literatures and Social Sciences, DTCF, University of Ankara

(2001- November 2004)

Other Academic Responsibilities

-External Examiner: Academic Promotions;

-External Examiner at vivas (Ankara University and other national universities);

-The recruitment of English readers for The Preparatory School, Ankara University.

Duties at various governmental bodies (or private institutions)

-Member: Advisory Board, The Department of World Literatures Translations, The Turkish Ministry of Culture,

Ankara (January 2001-December 2002)

-Preparing English language exams for staff recruitments: Ministry of Health; Ministry of Work and Social Security;

Ministry of Transportation; The Institute of Statistics (the Office of the Prime Minister’s); the Office of Treasury and

Customs (the Office of the Prime Minister’s); etc.

Foreign

- Weekly meetings with Japan's Ambassador to Turkey, Mrs Atsumo Toyama (December 1997 - April 1998)

Editorial/Advisory Board

- Afyon Kocatepe University , The Journal of Social Sciences

- Anadolu University, The Journal of Social Sciences

- Ankara University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Journal

- Atatürk University, The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences

- Cumhuriyet University , The Journal of Social Sciences

- Doğuş University, Journal of British Literature and Culture

- Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters Journal; Journal of British Literature and Culture

-Littera, The Journal of Western Languages and Literatures, University of Hacettepe

- Mersin University, The Journal of Language and Literature

- Pamukkale University, The Journal of Social Sciences

- Selçuk University, The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences

-Adiyaman University, The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences

Television Programme

Turkish Radio and Television (State Television)

Sema Ege’s Poems -included/read in the documentary called “Knowing Çanakkale (Dardanelles -Hellenspont)” (24

/04/ 2005: 22.30) (04/2006)

Radio Programme

Turkish Radio and Television (State Radio)

Educational Programs Division,

Subject: Island ‘In the midst of the Sea’ (‘Denizin Ortasında’), 2 programmes, June 2012

http://www.trt.net.tr/ondemand/podcastgalaeri.aspx?GaleriResimKodu=d2945018-9211-4570-9f19-a5f75ccbd47c8

Some of the MA/PhD theses completed/in progress

-‘Feminist Literary Critical Approach to H.G. Wells’s Ann Veronica, A. Bennett’s Helen with the High Hand, and D. H.

Lawrence’s Women in Love’

-‘Thomas Hardy; Status of Women within the Socio-Cultural Context of Victorian Society’

-‘Utopia and Counter Utopia -E. Bellamy, H.G. Wells and A. Huxley’

-‘The Gothic and Female Identity Relation in Angela Carter and Emma Tenant’

-‘The Anti-Hero in A.Huxley’s Crome Yellow and in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall’

-‘ “Exile” in T. Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, J. Conrad’s Lord Jim and James Joyce’s Ulysses’

-‘A Marxist Reading of William Morris’s News from Nowhere, E. Bellamy’s Looking Backward, and H. G. Wells’s A

Modern Utopia’

-‘A Darwinian Reading of Detective Fiction in Nineteenth Century English Literature’

-‘A Darwinian Reading of George Eliot and a Social Darwinian Reading of W. D. Howells’

-‘Cyberpunk Fiction –Gibson and Sterling’

- A Comparative Study of the Elements of Power in Jack London’s Iron Heel and G. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

- Cosmic Power in H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, Doris Lessing’s The Making of The Representative for Planet 8

and Maggie Gee’s The Flood

-‘G. Greene, E. Hemingway War and Alienatıon’

-‘The Images of Child in the Eighteenth Century Fiction.

-‘Social Criticism in Malcolm Bradbury’s Eating People is Wrong, in Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, and in David Lodge’s

Changing Places’

-‘A Marxist Reading of W. Morris’s News from Nowhere and T. Hertzka’s Freeland’

-‘The British Romantic Poets and American Transcendentalists’

-‘Jung and Archetypal Imagery in Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol), Lewis Caroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

and George MacDonald (Phantastes)

- Post-colonial Feminism: Jean Rhys and Chinua Achebe

Some of the Courses taught

Undergraduate

Translation

A Survey of American Literature

Selections from English Literature (from 10th

c. to the present)

Textual Analysis (American-English short story)

Eighteenth century English Novel

Edwardian Novel

Modernist Novel

Nineteenth century English Literature (prose and poetry)

(Romantic poets, Victorian period etc.)

1900-1950 English Novel

English Novel, 1950 -

Postgraduate Courses

Utopian Literature (American-English)

Campus Novel and Critical Approaches

Seventeenth century English Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry

Feminist Theories

Modernism and Cyberpunk

Anglo-American Textual Relations

English American Woman Writers

Transnationalism

English - American Modernist Fiction

Memberships (old and new)

-Turco-British Association, Ankara (1988-1993)

-H.G. Wells Society, London (1989-1995)

-‘Symbiosis’, Anglo-American Literary Relations (England-USA) (1997, 1999, 2005)

- IDEA- Istanbul (2008)

-The Society for Utopian Studies (1999, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012)

-The Utopian Studies Society (2008, 2009)

- Northeast Modern Languages Association (2010,2011,2012-2013)

-The University of Strathclyde (Alumni), Scotland

Some major headings(topics etc.)

-American History, Culture, and Literature (Prose and Poetry)

(From the beginnings to 1928) (social history, political changes, independence, Puritanism, communal experiments, the

impact of pre-Darwinian (utopian) socialism, influx of immigrants, the aftermath/impact of the 1848 uprisings in the

Continent, socialism in the United States (from ‘Continental poison’ to Christian Socialism), fears of Marxism, the

impact of Social Darwinism, industrial capitalism, the advancement of technology, notions of becoming the sole nation of

the Future, reforms (i.e. Progressivism) and their reflections in literary texts (prose and poetry)

-English Social History, Culture, and Literature (poetry, fiction, non-fiction)From particularly the days of Thomas More

to the present day.

- Social History: Continental Europe from late nineteenth century to the outbreak of World WarII

- Russian social history; 1917-1925

-Comparative Literature

-Utopia-Anti-Utopia; Cyberpunk; Science Fiction (English-American)