Yaşar University | Curriculum Vitae

Assist.Prof. (PhD) Evren Akaltun Akan

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

Short CV

Evren Akaltun received her Ph.D. degree from (SUNY) Stony Brook in 2017. Having taught various courses in Comparative Literature and English Literature departments at Stony Brook University, Istanbul Kültür University and Istanbul Bilgi University for nine years, she has joined the faculty of English Literature at Yaşar University. She had focused on critical reading of world literature through the works of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Virginia Woolf and Mahmoud Darwish in her dissertation. Her current studies expand on this theme by adding a special focus on the relation between philosophy and literature.

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Education

Integrated Phd

/ State University of New York at Stony Brook
Karsilastirmali Edebiyat
Thesis Name: Towards a Critical Awareness of Worldliness: A.H. Tanpinar’s Huzur, Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (2016)
Thesis Advisor: Robert Harvey
2007 - 2017

Bachelor

BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ / BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ/BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ/İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI ANABİLİM DALI/
FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
1996 - 2000

Academic Titles

Asst.Prof.Dr.

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2017 -

Lecturer

İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ / FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ / KARŞILAŞTIRMALI EDEBİYAT BÖLÜMÜ
2016 - 2017

Lecturer

İSTANBUL KÜLTÜR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ / BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ
2012 - 2015

Research Assistant

State University of New York at Stony Brook / Humanities / Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat
2007 - 2012

Thesis Superviser

Master Thesis
EBRU MCCALLUM An Analysis of Birds without Wings in terms of Turkish Nation State Formation Yaşar Üniversitesi 2024
SELİS YILDIZ ŞEN Becoming the Ghost in the Shell: Representations of the Female Cyborg in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell and James Tiptree Jr.'s The Girl Who Was Plugged In Yaşar Üniversitesi 2023
Fatemeh Gholami “Places of Movement: A Spatial Reading of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West” YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ 2022
PhD Thesis

Publications

7.1 Published or Accepted to be Published in International Journals Covered by (SCI & SCI-E & SSCI & AHCI)
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Mahmoud Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness:Redeeming Worldliness Through Exilic Consciousness The European Legacy, (), 0-0. (AHCI) 2019
7.2 Published or accepted to be published in International journals covered by other indexes
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN,HOPE TREVOR JOHN In Quest of Ourselves: A Highly Important Matter Journal of World Literature, 3(4), 442-447. Endekste taranmıyor 2018
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN ”Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Beş Şehir: an aesthetic approach to urban transformation” A/Z ITU Journal, 14(2), 21-30. Scopus, ULAKBIM, DAAI, ICONDA 2017
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN ”Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women’s Writing” The European English Messenger, 23(1), 84-87. 2014
7.3 Published in CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH indexed conference proceedings International
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN ”Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Being in the World with the Other” 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf 2018
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN “Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Bes Sehir: An Aesthetic Approach toUrban Transformation” UPAD Urban Transformation: Economic, Social and PhysicalAspects 2014
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Writing as Recuperation of the Self in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge International Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Conference 2021
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN “Precarious lives and Fractured Subjectivities: José Saramago’s Blindness and Bilge Karasu’s Gece” TC İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi, Literary Perspectives on the Pandemics 2021
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN “From Home to Cultural Crossroads: Intersecting Memories in Zafer Şenocak’s Works” Uluslararası BAKEA Sempozyumu 2021
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Becomings in Orlando: Transformation, Border Crossing and Polymorphous Identitie İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, Graduate Seminar 2021 - REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY NOVEL 2021
7.5 Published or Accepted to be Published in National Journals
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Becomings in Orlando: Temporality, Writing and Queerness Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(1), 114-125. TR DİZİN 2023
SÜNER MUSTAFA AHMET,AKALTUN AKAN EVREN The Uncanny Homes and Homelessness in Kafka’s ”A Country Doctor” Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 6(2), 363-378. MLA 2019
7.6 Published Conference Proceedings National
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar'in Estetigi ve Mimariye Yaklasimi" (Davetli Konuşmacı) Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Edebiyat ve Mimarlık paneli 2021
7.7 Other Publications
Others
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Edebiyatta Denizcilik, Denizcilikte Edebiyat Chapter:Yaşlı Gemici-Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("S.T.Coleridge'ın Yaşlı Gemici'si ve Romantik Gerçeklik" Chapter Naviga 2022
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Edebiyatta Denizcilik, Denizcilikte Edebiyat Chapter:"Ütopya-Thomas More- Bir Umuttan Çok Bir Dilek" Chapter Naviga 2022
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Edebiyatta Posthümanizm Chapter:İnsan Olan ve İnsan Olmayan Arasında: Frankenstein'ın Posthümanizme Dair Düşündürdükleri Chapter Transnational Press London 2020
AKALTUN AKAN EVREN Edebiyatta Mimarlik Chapter:”Mimarliktan Ilham Alan Romanlar: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitusu” ve ”Mimari Denemeler: Bes Sehir” Chapter YEM Yayin 2016
Non-academic Experience
Vitsan Mümessillik ve Tic. A.Ş Claims Handler 2000 2007

Administrative Duties

KOCAELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2021 -

Komisyon Başkanlığı YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2021 -

Kalite Kurulu Üyeliği YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2021 -

Anabilim Dalı Başkanı YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2020 -

Bölüm Başkanı YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ

2020 -

Courses

Comparative Literature I (2023-2024)

Weekly Hour : 4

Textual Analysis: Poetry (2023-2024)

Weekly Hour : 4

Postcolonial Literature (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

Comparative Literature II (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

Textual Analysis: Poetry (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

Comparative Literature I (2022-2023)

Weekly Hour : 4

Comparative Literature I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

Textual Analysis: Poetry (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

Comparative Literature II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

Postcolonial Literature (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 4

Postcolonial Literature (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 4

Comparative Literature II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

Contact

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