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Assist.Prof. (PhD) Esen Kara Göktoğan

Faculty of Human and Social Sciences / Dept. of English Language and Literature

Short CV

Esen Kara received her B.A. in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ankara University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Culture and Literature at Dokuz Eylül University. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the “the right to the city” movement and its representations in the transnational American novel. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Yaşar University English Language and Literature Department and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on post-colonial literature, modern Turkish novel, and classical literature. Her post-doctoral research focuses on contemporary Turkish literature and the intersections of post-colonial studies and critical post-humanism.

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Education

Post Doc

/ Dartmouth College
Comparative Literature
2023 - -

Phd

AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI (DR) (İNGİLİZCE) / DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ/AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI (DR) (İNGİLİZCE)/
Thesis Name: Claiming the Right to the City: Representations of Los Angeles in the Transnational American Literature (2018)
Thesis Advisor: Esra Çoker
2009 - 2018

Master

AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ / DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ/AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ/AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI PR. (İNGİLİZCE)/
Thesis Name: The Use of the Female Doppelganger in Shirley Jackson's Fiction (2009)
Thesis Advisor: Esra Çoker
2006 - 2009

Bachelor

BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ / ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ
DİL VE TARİH COĞRAFYA FAKÜLTESİ/BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ/İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI ANABİLİM DALI/
DİL VE TARİH COĞRAFYA FAKÜLTESİ
2001 - 2005

Academic Titles

Asst.Prof.Dr.

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2020 -

Lecturer

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2013 - 2020

Lecturer

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / YABANCI DİLLER YÜKSEKOKULU /
2008 - 2013

Thesis Superviser

Master Thesis
EBRU MCCALLUM An Analysis of Birds without Wings in terms of Turkish Nation State Formation Yaşar Üniversitesi 2024
EBRU MCCALLUM Dynamics of nation state building in Louis de Bernieres' Birds without Wings Yaşar Üniversitesi 2023
ZEKAYİ KILIÇ Intersectionality of Queer Lives in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other Yaşar Üniversitesi 2023
EFE BİR The Right to the City in the Global Anglophone Fiction: Americanah and Exit West Yaşar Üniversitesi 2023
PhD Thesis

Publications

7.1 Published or Accepted to be Published in International Journals Covered by (SCI & SCI-E & SSCI & AHCI)
KARA ESEN Ecological Imagination and Women’s Memory in Contemporary Turkish Novel Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, (), 0-0. (AHCI) 2024
KARA ESEN Crossing the Threshold of the City: Urban Refugees in Hector Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 61(3), 313-326. (AHCI) 2020
7.2 Published or accepted to be published in International journals covered by other indexes
KARA ESEN The Pastoral Ideal and the Neoliberal City: Production of Nature in T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain Monograf, 13(1), 109-133. EBSCO 2020
KARA ESEN Rewriting the City as an Oeuvre in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Interactions, 27(), 75-89. MLA 2018
7.3 Published in CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH indexed conference proceedings International
KARA GÖKTOĞAN ESEN Navigating the Mediterranean Waters: Aesthetic Interventions as Counter-Memory in The Diwan of Mad Ibram American Comparative Literature Association / Canada 2024
KARA ESEN Indigenous Posthumanism and Rewriting History: Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman 41th International American Studies Association of Turkey Conference / Türkiye 2022
KARA ESEN Ecological Imagination and Women's Memory in Contemporary Turkish Literature American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting / US 2022
KARA ESEN The Coyote and the Pilgrim: Production of Nature in the Garden 25th AISNA Biennial Conference / Italy 2019
KARA ESEN Contested Spaces and the Right to the City: Representations of Los Angeles in the Transnational American Literature Kent School of Architecture: ”Writing Buildings” / UK 2016
KARA ESEN Transgressing National, Cultural, and Disciplinary Boundaries in Teaching Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in Turkey American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting / USA 2015
KARA ESEN Spaces of Power and Resistance: Remapping the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North 58th British Association of American Studies Conference / UK 2013
KARA ESEN,ULUÇAY DİLEK MELİKE Social Media and the Transformation of Civic Participation: A Turkish Demonstration Case 8th Biennial Conference of The Society for Multi Ethnic Studies / Spain 2012
7.5 Published or Accepted to be Published in National Journals
KARA ESEN Dişil Kent Bilinci ve Bir Flanöz Romanı olarak Fosforlu Cevriye Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 40(1), 326-337. TR DİZİN 2023
7.6 Published Conference Proceedings National
KARA ESEN,İÇÖZ NARLI FULYA Anlamın Kenarındaki Çığlık: Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatında Bastırılmış Kadın Sesleri (Sözlü Sunum) 2. Kadın Yazarlar Sempozyumu 2012
7.7 Other Publications
Others
KARA ESEN Kent Üzerine: Düş, Yer, Müşterek ve Hareket Chapter:Modern Türkçe Edebiyatta Kent Okumaları Chapter Yakın Yayınları 2024
KARA ESEN Portakal Dönencesi Chapter:Önsöz Chapter Livera 2023
KARA ESEN,İÇÖZ FULYA Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatı Chapter:Anlamın Kenarındaki Çığlık: Erendiz Atasü Edebiyatında Bastırılmış Kadın Sesleri. Chapter Can Yayınları 2014
KARA ESEN Batı Edebiyatında Kahraman (Hero in Western Literature) Chapter:The Anti-heroines as the Return of the Repressed in Shirley Jackson’s Fiction Chapter Pamukkale Üniversitesi Yayınları No 17 2010
Art Activities
Diğer Uluslararası Karma Writers Meet: Sema Kaygusuz, Paul McVeigh Yaşar Üniversitesi, Selçuk Yaşar Kampüsü 2016-02-24 2016-02-24
Non-academic Experience
Akademik Yabancı Diller Okulu İngilizce Okutmanı 2005 2008

Membership in Scientific and Professional Organizations

American Comparative Literature Association

2015 - 2024

American Studies Association of Turkey

2022 -

Memory Studies Association

2024 -

Awards

TUBITAK-BIDEP International Post-doctoral Fellowship / Dartmouth College USA

/ TÜRKİYE
2023

Erasmus Teaching Mobility Grant

Erasmus / İSPANYA
2022

Eğitimde Başarı Ödülü

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / TÜRKİYE
2019

Fellowship

Salzburg Global Seminar / AVUSTURYA
2013

Courses

ENGL 1119 CLASSICAL LITERATURE I (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1081 TURCOPHONE LITERATURE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE I (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 5553 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND MULTICULTURALISM I (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 3

ENGL 1119 CLASSICAL LITERATURE I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1081 TURCOPHONE LITERATURE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 5553 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND MULTICULTURALISM I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ENGL 1128 CLASSICAL LITERATURE II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1082 TURCOPHONE LITERATURE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 5554 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND MULTICULTURALISM II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ENGL 3317 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL I (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1119 CLASSICAL LITERATURE I (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 3318 19TH CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1128 CLASSICAL LITERATURE II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

ENGL 1082 TURCOPHONE LITERATURE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

Contact

Üniversite Cad. No: 37-39 Ağaçlı Yol
Bornova / İZMİR