Team Members
Himmet Umunç
Professor of English Literature
Himmet Umunç, PhD, is professor of English Literature at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. His research interests include British studies, American studies, representation of Turkey in British and American writings, literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, and comparative literature. He has published in learned journals and presented papers at national and international conferences
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Merve Sarıkaya Şen
Research Group Director
Associate Professor
Merve Sarıkaya-Şen, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include transmodernity and feminism, with a particular focus on memory/trauma/diasporic works in contemporary English and American fiction.
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Defne Tutan
Assistant Professor
Defne Tutan, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Specialized in Cultural Studies, Dr. Tutan has worked extensively on the intersection of postmodern and postcolonial discourses, with a special interest in their impact on the representation of alternative histories. Her more recent research has focused on historical adaptations, history as adaptation and biopics.
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Seda Åžen
Assistant Professor
Seda Åžen, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include urban studies, graphic narratives, contemporary American poetry, creative writing and memory, modernist studies, literary cartography, and ethnic literature.
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Deniz Kırpıklı
Assistant Professor
Deniz Kırpıklı, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include memory studies, migration, contemporary fiction, and Romantic poetry.
Gül Varlı Karaarslan
Gül Varlı Karaarslan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include feminist theatre, third theatre, gender studies, food studies, and contemporary memoirs.
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Assistant Professor
Tarık Tansu Yiğit
Assistant Professor
Tarık Tansu Yiğit, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Yiğit is a historian of the United States, with a particular focus on the cultural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century. His research interests include the US Civil War Era, material history, and memory studies.
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Melike Tokay Ünal
Assistant Professor
Melike Tokay Ünal, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her research interests include transatlantic cultural and social flows, World War I narratives, American expatriates in Paris, social history of medicine and hospitals, American philanthropy, and travel writing.
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Senar Arcak
Research Assistant
Senar Arcak, MA, is Research Assistant at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Senar Arcak is interested in climate change studies, postmodern literature, and contemporary novel.
Ä°rem UÄŸur
Research Assistant
Having received her undergraduate degree from Hacettepe University, Department of American Culture and Literature, Ä°rem UÄŸur is Research Assistant at the Department of American Culture and Literature, BaÅŸkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Ä°rem UÄŸur is interested in American drama, American social history and gender studies.
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