CURRICULUM VITAE Full Name: Department: Institution: Date and Place of Birth: Present Address: Özlem Uzundemir American Culture and Literature Başkent University, Faculty of Science and Letters September 8, 1967 İzmir Başkent University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature, Bağlıca, Ankara Telephone: 2466666/ 2026 Fax: 2466630 e-mail: Home Address: uzundem@baskent.edu.tr Kırkpınar Sokak 7/5 Çankaya, Ankara Home Telephone: 4402462 Academic Qualifications Degrees Held: Ph.D. (1996) Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, M.A. (1992) Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, B.A. (1989) Department of English Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University Ph.D. Dissertation: M.A. Dissertation: Languages other than Turkish and English: Narrative Techniques in Doris Lessing s Stories and Sketches, Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Rüçhan Kayalar Women in Love as a Polyphonic Novel, Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Laurence A. Raw German (ÜDS: 75)
Professional Experience: Teaching Areas: Thesis Supervision: 1989-1996, Research Assistant, Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University 1996-1999, Lecturer, Department of American Culture and 1999-2003, Assistant Professor, Department Chair, Department of American Culture and 2003-2005, Assistant Professor, Department of American Culture and 2005-2006, Assistant Chair, Department of American Culture and 2006-2007, Assistant Professor, Department of American Culture and 2007- Lecturer, Department of American Culture and Survey of English Literature Survey of European Literature Research and Writing Introduction to the Novel Introduction to Literary Studies Literary Theory I Modern American Fiction Postmodern Fiction Women s Issues in Literature Literary Theory Modern American Poetry I & II Translation Being Black and a Woman: The Question of Double Identity in the Poetry of Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Helene Johnson, (MA) Tuna Mutlu, Başkent University 2002. Author as Scriptor in Postmodern Fiction: Orhan Pamuk s The Black Book and Paul Auster s City of Glass, (MA) Saniye Çancı, Başkent University 2004. Publications: Through the Other Eye : Some Recurrent Themes in Doris Lessing s Stories, The Fourth METU British Novelists Seminar: Proceedings, March 1996, 139-148. Narrative as Rhythm: Virginia Woolf s The Waves, The Fifth METU British Novelists Seminar: Proceedings, March 1997, 81-89. A Desire for a Dialogue between the East and the West: Orhan Pamuk s Benim Adım Kırmızı, Dialogue and Difference: Proceedings of the Fourth Cultural Studies Seminar, May 1999, Ege University, 131-138.
Barok, Türk Dünyası Kavramları ve Terimleri Ansiklopedik Sözlük, Vol I, Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2001, 339-340. Bayronculuk, Türk Dünyası Kavramları ve Terimleri Ansiklopedik Sözlük, Vol I, Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2001, 371-372. Benim Adım Kırmızı da Doğu ile Batı, Geçmiş ile Günümüz Arasında Diyalog Arayışları, Doğuş University Journal, 3 (2001): 112-119. Dadacılık, Türk Dünyası Kavramları ve Terimleri Ansiklopedik Sözlük, Vol II, Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2003, 71-72. Düalizm, Türk Dünyası Kavramları ve Terimleri Ansiklopedik Sözlük, Vol II, Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı, 2003, 248. Ayla Kutlu s Kadın Destanı and the Modification of the Epic, Çankaya University Journal of Arts and Sciences, 3 (2005): 119-126. Ayla Kutlu nun Kadın Destanı ve Destan Türünde Değişiklikler, Ünlem Sanat Dergisi. 15 (2006): 27-30. Challenging Gender Roles through Narrative Techniques: Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 70 (2006): 8-10. (MLA Index) Once an Insider, Now an Outsider: Doris Lessing s African Laughter, Çankaya University Journal of Arts and Sciences, 10 (2008): 153-160. The Paragon between the Image and the Word: Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Proc. Of the 3rd International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, 16-18 April 2008. İzmir: Ege University Press, 2009. 259-265. Resim ve Edebiyat İlişkisinde Kadın İmgesi: Percy Bysshe Shelley nin Şiirinde Medusa, Nazım Hikmet te Jokond, bilig 51 (2009): 231-244. İmgeyi Konuşturmak: İngiliz Yazınında Görsel Sanatlar (Giving Voice to the Image: Visual Arts in English Literature), İstanbul: Boğaziçi UP, 2010.
Translations: Amedee ya da Ondan Nasıl Kurtulmalı (in collaboration with Meltem Kıran) trans. in Absürd Tiyatro, Ankara: İmge, 1995. 28-118 Profesör Taranne trans. in Absürd Tiyatro, Ankara: İmge, 1995. 120-138 The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Anatolia (in collaboration with Berkem Gürenci), Ankara: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture Publications, 2002. Book Reviews: Refakatçi: Zorlu Bir Tangonun Öyküsü, Rev. of Refakatçi, by Perihan Mağden, Bilkent liyiz, Jan. 1997: 44. Aynaların Dünyasında Büyülü bir Gezinti, Rev. of Muska. By Sadık Yemni, Bilkent liyiz, Jan. 1998: 42. Rev. of Fransız Teğmenin Kadını, by John Fowles, Bilkent liyiz, Nov. 1999: 42. Rev. of Cam Kent, by Paul Auster, Bilkent liyiz, Nov. 1999: 42. Rev. of Uçu, by Erendiz Atasü, Bilkent liyiz, Nov. 1999: 42. Rev. of Seke Seke, by Can Yücel, Bilkent liyiz, Jan. 2000: 45. Rev. of Son Yüzyıl Büyük Türk Şiiri Antolojisi, by Ataol Behramoğlu, Bilkent liyiz, Jan. 2000: 45. Renkli Bir Resimli Dünya da Venedik, İstanbul, Rönesans ve Osmanlı ya Yolculuk, Rev. of Resimli Dünya, by Nedim Gürsel, Bilkent liyiz, May 2000: 48. Presentations: Doris Lessing s African Experience, British Cultural Studies Course on Art and Empire: The British Experience, British Council, Ankara, November 1996. Once an Insider, Now an Outsider: Doris Lessing s African Laughter, 19th All-Turkey English Literature Conference, Boğaziçi University, 1998. Ayla Kutlu s Kadın Destanı and the Modification of the Epic, Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship, Swansea University, 2003. Narrative Techniques in Doris Lessing s Stories, 1st International Doris Lessing Conference, New Orleans, 2004.
Panelist in American Studies Curriculum in Turkey Panel, 30th Annual Conference of the American Studies Association of Turkey, Kadir Has University, 2005. Gender Roles through Narrative Techniques in Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthous,, 1st IDEA Conference, Boğaziçi University, 2006. The Paragone between Word and Image: Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray, 3rd IDEA Conference, Ege University, 2008. Şiirde Resim Betimlemeleri ve Kadın İmgesi: Percy Bysshe Shelley ve Nazım Hikmet, Uluslar arası Sempozyum: Edebiyat ve Bilim I, Ankara University, 2009. Citations: Berkan Ulu, Mustafa Şahiner, Bir Geleneğin Kırılma Noktası: Ekfrasis ve İngiltere de Müzecilik, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 27.2 (2010): 129-147. Mustafa Kırca, and Firat Karadas, The Problem of Miniaturist Art as Reflection of Reality in Orhan Pamuk s My Name is Red, The Poetics of Shadows: The Double in Literature and Philosophy, Ed. Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2008, 123-133. Gonca Gökalp-Alparslan, Metinlerarası İlişkiler ve Gılgamış Destanının Çağdaş Yorumları, İstanbul: Multilingual, 2007, 249. Conferences and Summer Schools Attended: 1989, Cambridge Summer School in Literature 8-26 July 1996, British Council International Seminar, British Cultural Studies at University, College or School, Oxford University and Strathclyde University Critical Questions, English Literature in the New Century, Conference organized by the British Council, Berlin, 1998. Research Interests: Other Professional and Academic Duties: Modern and Postmodern Fiction Contemporary Women Writers Narrative Techniques in Fiction Visual Arts and Literature Ad hoc referee for Journal of Arts and Sciences, Çankaya University Organizing Committee Member of 30th and 31st Annual Conferences of the American Studies Association of Turkey