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DEPARTMENT OF TURKISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
RESEARCH AREAS
Prof. Ali Budak Westernization and Turkish Literature, 19th Century Journalism and Magazine Publishing, 19th Century Culture and Literature History, Identity and Culture in Contemporary Turkish Novel
Prof. Mehmet Kanar The comprehensible translation of basic works related to Old Turkish Literature in narrative or poetry, The publication and simplification of language of important New Turkish Literature texts before 1928, Preparing Ancient Anatolian Turkish masterpieces for publication, Preparing comprehensive dictionaries by scanning Ancient Anatolian Turkish texts, Expanding the current dictionary by text scanning, Expanding the current Ottoman Turkish dictionary, Comprehensive publication studies on paleography texts, Translating Persian Literature Classics into Turkish, Expanding the current Persian-Turkish dictionary as a comparative and multilingual dictionary, Preparation of an anthology that chronologically shows the development of Turkish poetry and narrative
Prof. Melda Üner New Turkish Literature, 19th Century Turkish Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism, Literature Theory, Contemporary Criticism, Narrative techniques
Assist. Prof. Nergiz Gahramanlı New Turkish Literature, Stories and Novels, Narrative Techniques, Children’s Literature
Assist. Prof. Bahar Gökpınar Methodological issues in biographies, the fictionalization/historical perception of biographic material (Memoirs, Biographies, Monographies) Feminist biography and feminist historiography, Effective use of private archives and non-official documents in socio-cultural historiographies, Ottoman Women's Movement in the context of 19th century "Westernization-Modernization" struggles and contradictions; Ottoman Women's Magazines and Newspapers; Ottoman Press, Theoretical examinations of classical Ottoman poetry, Masculinity studies in Ottoman literature
Assist. Prof. Serkan Şener Generative models of language, Structure of Modern Turkish: Agreement; Wh-questions; Exceptional Case Marking; Structure of noun phrases; (Argument) Ellipsis, Syntax-pragmatics interface, Psycholinguistics - Language processing, child language acquisition, bilingualism and code-switching, Cognitive Science
Res. Assist. Hale Gülru Gürkanlı Kutlu Turkish Literature of the Period 1930-1945, The influence of Freud and Bergson in Republican Literature, Istanbul in Turkish Literature, Atilla İlhan Novels, Melodrama and Melodramatic Structure, New Historicism
Araş. Gör. Nilay Karakoç Comparative Literature, Cognitive Literature Studies, Narratology and Narrative Theory, Cognitive Poetics