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Assist.Prof. (PhD) Emine Sonal

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

Short CV

After completing her undergraduate degree at the Faculty of Ziya Gökalp Faculty of Education in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dicle University, Emine Sonal completed her Master's studies in the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature at Anadolu University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Social Sciences in the department of English Language and Literature at Ege University. She started to work as an English Instructress at the Department of Foreign Languages at Fırat University. She also worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Education in the Department of English Language and Education at Uludağ University. After that, she started her academic career as an Assistant Professor at Yaşar University. She also worked as the Head of the English Language and Literature Department and the Department of American Culture and Literature at Girne American University. She is currently working at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences in the department of English Language and Literature at Yaşar University as a full-time academician.

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Academic Titles

Asst.Prof.Dr.

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2022 -

Asst.Prof.Dr.

Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi / Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi / Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı
2014 - 2022

Asst.Prof.Dr.

AVRASYA ÜNİVERSİTESİ / FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2012 - 2014

Asst.Prof.Dr.

YAŞAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ / FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ / İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2007 - 2011

Research Assistant

EGE ÜNİVERSİTESİ / EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ / AMERİKAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ
2002 - 2006

Lecturer

ULUDAĞ ÜNİVERSİTESİ / EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ / YABANCI DİLLER EĞİTİMİ BÖLÜMÜ
1997 - 2003

Lecturer

FIRAT ÜNİVERSİTESİ / YABANCI DİLLER YÜKSEKOKULU / YABANCI DİLLER BÖLÜMÜ
1983 - 1997

Thesis Superviser

Master Thesis
OZAN AKÇİÇEK Disguise and empowerment in Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night and As You Like It İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi 2023
OZAN AKÇİÇEK Disguise and empowerment of women in Shakespeare's plays: Twelfth Night and As You Like It İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi 2023
PhD Thesis

Publications

7.2 Published or accepted to be published in International journals covered by other indexes
SONAL EMİNE TRAVMA EDEBİYATI İLE İLGİLİ BİR KİTAP DEĞERLENDİRMESİ: “38, TRAVMA, İYİLEŞME VE ANNEMİN YÜZYILI” Uluslararası Anadolu Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 7(2), 558-563. Academic Resource Index, EBSCO, Ulric's, ESJI,International Scientific Index, ASOS Index 2023
SONAL EMİNE, DUSHIME Charlene Erica THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BUILDING A COLONIAL FRIENDSHIP IN A PASSAGE TO INDIA BY E.M. FORSTER IN THE CONTEXT OF ARISTOTLE’S THEORY OF FRIENDSHIP Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi, 5(1), 67-86. MLA, Index Copernicus, ResearchBib, Google Scholar, Eurasian Scientific Journal Index, International Citation Index, CrossRef, WorldCat, Türk Eğitim İndeksi, Directory of Indexing and Impact Factor, Sindex, CiteFactor, Asos indeks. 2021
SONAL EMİNE BLANCHE DUBOIS AND STELLA KOWALSKI: VICTIMIZED SISTERS IN A MALE DOMINATED WORLD DEPICTED IN A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Uluslararası Anadolu Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 5(1), 329-341. Academic Resource Index, Index Copernicus, Root Indexing, SIS, Cite factor, DRJI, ASOS, Infobase Index, International Citation Index, I2OR 2021
SONAL EMİNE The Depiction of the Traditional Culture in Yaşar Kemal’s novel entitled The Legend of the Thousand Bulls International Journal of English and Education, 8(1), 84-100. ISI-Scientific Indexing, Global Serial Directory, The Library-UC SAN DIEGO, COSMOS, ESJI -EURO ASIAN SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL INDEX, I20R - GLOBAL IMPACT FACTOR, Ulrichs Web 2019
SONAL EMİNE The New Gilead Society in the city of “Gilead” depicted in the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies, 4(6), 7-13. ISI-Scientific Indexing, International Impact Factor Services, Genamics Journal Seek 2018
SONAL EMİNE Yaşar Kemal’in ”Binboğalar Efsanesi” isimli Eserinde Yansıtılan Geleneksel Kültüre Bakış Altaistics, Turcology, Mongolistics International Scientific Journal, 1(1), 184-197. Uluslararası indexlenen dergi olarak yazılmış. 2018
SONAL EMİNE A MYTHICAL APPROACH TO YAŞAR KEMAL'S NOVELS: AĞRI DAĞI EFSANESI AND YER DEMİR GÖK BAKIR Journal of International Social Research, 9(47), 150-156. EBSCO, MLA, Proquest CSA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts), Index Islamicus, Journal Seek, Scientific Indexing Services, Academic Journal Database, DRJI and WorldCat, SIOP SocIndex, EconBiz, TEI (Türk Eğitim İndeks 2016
Ergin Seçkin,SONAL EMİNE Suggested Curriculum Developments to Communicate Women’s Rights through Literature: Poetry by Women Poets Muriel Rukeyser from U.S.A., Şuküfe Nihal from Turkey and May Zeyadeh from Egypt ARTICLES ART IN THE PRESS, (), 1-5. Endekste taranmıyor 2005
7.3 Published in CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH indexed conference proceedings International
SONAL EMİNE New Gilead Society in the city of “Gilead” depicted in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood”. The . Barcelona-Spain July-16-18, 2016. The International Academic Forum CITY/ GLOBAL 2016. IAFOR.ORG 2016
SONAL EMİNE A Comparison of the Setting in Homer’s Epic Poem, The Iliad with the Setting of the Hollywood movie, Troy 15th Cultural Studies Symposium: ”Culture and Space” 2015
SONAL EMİNE The Construction of National Identity in William Faulkner’s "Sartoris" and Yaşar Kemal’s "The Legend of the Thousand Bulls": A conflict of Old and New Values 6th Turkish-German Congress of Psychiatry 2007
Ergin Seçkin, SONAL EMİNE Migration as the last resort of the under-privileged: Migration stories in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Yaşar Kemal’s The Wind from the Plain 10th International Cultural Studies Symposium titled “When ‘Away’ Becomes ‘Home”: Cultural Consequences of Migration” 2005
SONAL EMİNE Teaching Short Stories through Drama International Balkan ELT Conference: Theory and Practice of TESOL,Trakya University 2002
SONAL EMİNE THE PLIGHT OF THE “SLIGHTED” WOMAN IN THE SHORT STORIES: VIRGINIA WOOLF’S “THE MARK ON THE WALL” AND CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN’S “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” ULUSLARARASI MULTİDİSİPLİNER KADIN KONGRESİ (13-16 Ekim 2009) 2009
SONAL EMİNE Teaching Short Stories through Drama International Balkan ELT Conference: Theory and Practice of TESOL 16.06.2002 2002
SONAL EMİNE A Comparative Study of the Marxist Elements in the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Beyond the Mountain by Yaşar Kemal Conference: "Marxism and the World Stage” at University of Massachusetts. 06.09.2003 2003
SONAL EMİNE The Importance of Autobiographical Narratives in the American Literary History The 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 09.01.2011 2011
SONAL EMİNE Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski: Victimized Sisters in a Male Dominated World Depicted in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 2nd International Congress on Academic Studies in Philology (BICOASP) 2020
Ergin Seçkin, SONAL EMİNE Suggested Curriculum Developments to Communicate Women’s Rights through Literature: Poetry by Women Poets; Muriel Rukeyser from U.S.A., Şuküfe Nihal from Turkey and May Zeyadeh from Egypt The conference titled “On the Road to sustainable Excellence: Communicating across the Curriculum”, The American University in Cairo, 2005
7.4 Books & Book Chapters International
SONAL EMİNE, HOWLETT Jeffrey GENDER ISSUES IN NORTH AMERICAN FICTION Page (-) DORA Basım-Yayın Dağıtım Ltd. Şti. 2022
SONAL EMİNE THE HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY: FROM PLATO TO THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD Page (-) Dora Basım Yayın Dağıtım 2021
SONAL EMİNE İki Evrensel Yazar: John Steinbeck veYaşar Kemal ve İki Çalışma Örneği Page (-) Gece Kitaplığı 2014
7.5 Published or Accepted to be Published in National Journals
SONAL EMİNE WILLIAM FAULKNER’IN SARTORİS İSİMLİ ESERİNDE YANSITILAN YEREL KÜLTÜRE BAKIŞ Munzur Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (MÜSBİD), 9(2), 196-216. Academic Resource Index, Index Copernicus, ROOT Indexing, SOBIAD, ESJI, DRJI, ASOS, Acarİndex, General Impact Factor 2020
SONAL EMİNE “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck: A Freudian Approach OLYMPOS, Uludağ Universitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Dergisi, 1(), 0-0. Endekste taranmıyor 1999
SONAL EMİNE A Study on TV Advertisements: From the Point of View of Semiotics OLYMPOS, Uludağ Universitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Dergisi, (3), 1-7. Endekste taranmıyor 1999
SONAL EMİNE The Symbols used in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne OLYMPOS, Uludağ Universitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Dergisi, (3), 1-7. Endekste taranmıyor 1999
SONAL EMİNE Increasing Students’ Motivation in a Foreign Language Learning Situation Dil ve İnsan, 2(7), 8-18. Endekste taranmıyor 1997
7.6 Published Conference Proceedings National
SONAL EMİNE Yaşar Kemal’in “Binboğalar Efsanesi” ve William Faulkner’ın “Sartoris” isimli eserlerinde Ulusal Kimlik Oluşturma Çabası: Yeni ve Eski Değerler Arasında Yaşanan Çelişkiler (Davetli Konuşmacı) Bir Edebiyat Adası Yaşar Kemal Sempozyumu 2016
Kırtunç Ayşe Lahur,SONAL EMİNE Türk Basınından Yakın tarihli Örneklerle Kadına Yönelik Olumsuz Tutumlar: Söylem Analizi Açısından Bir İnceleme (Sözlü Sunum) 4. Ulusal Kadın Çalışmaları Toplantısı ”Kadın Sorunlarının Çözümüne doğru Yöntem, Strateji ve Politikalar” 1998
SONAL EMİNE Increasing Students’ Motivation through Task-based Methodology in ELT Classes”. USIS, Regional ELT Conference (Sözlü Sunum) Looking at the Trends for the 90’s: A Focus on Sources, Resources and Applications 1993
SONAL EMİNE Homeros’un Büyülü Yazın Dünyası: İlyada Destanı ve İnsan-Doğa İlişkisi Eksenindeki Benzetmeler (Sözlü Sunum) III.Mitoloji Günleri Düşünbil Dergisi 2015
7.7 Other Publications
Journals
SONAL EMİNE Homeros’un Büyülü Yazın Dünyası: İlyada Destanı ve İnsan-Doğa İlişkisi Eksenindeki Benzetmeler Felsefe Dergisi Düşünbil, (52), 7-11. 2016
Others
SONAL EMİNE Rhetorical Skills I Handbook for students of American Culture and Literature Department Chapter:What Happened to Traditional American Ideals in 1930? Chapter Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi 2006
Kırtunç Ayşe Lahur,SONAL EMİNE Rhetorical Skills Handbook for Students of American Culture and Literature,Faculty of letters Ege university Chapter:The Reason for the Separation of America from Great Britain Chapter Ege University 2006
Non-academic Experience
Ege Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi 15th International Cultural Studies Symposium 2015 2015
the Association of Scientists As an editor in chief 2012 2012
University of Wroclaw, Poland Visiting scholar guest in the frame of Erasmus Exchange Program 2010 2010
Anadolu University, Eskişehir As a participant in the seminar titled “Best Practices for Teaching Writing” 2005 2005
USIS-Ankara As a participant at the American Studies Conference, titled “Continuous Present, Future Perfect: American Temporalities”, 2004 2004
USIS- Uludağ University, Bursa As a participant in the Summer Institute titled “Content-Based Approach in Language Teaching’. 2003 2003
Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi İleri Düzey Yaratıcı Drama semineri 2002 2002
The Faculty of Educational Science, Ankara University, Ankara As a participant in the seminar titled “The Curriculum Development in Creative Drama”, 2001 2001
The Contemporary Drama Society -Ankara, 26 February 2001- 3 March 2001. As a participant in the seminar titled “Drama in the International Education 2001 2001
The Faculty of Educational Science, Ankara University, Ankara, As a participant in the seminar titled “Creative Drama 2000 2000
USIS- Bilkent University, Ankara As a participant in the Summer Institute titled “Literary-Content-Based Teaching Course 1994 1994

Administrative Duties

Anabilim Dalı Başkanı Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi

2018 -

Anabilim Dalı Başkanı Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi

2014 -

Membership in Scientific and Professional Organizations

Contemporary Drama Society of Turkey, Ankara

1998 - 2018

Association of Scientists, İzmir, Turkey.

2010 - 2015

ASAT (American Studies Association of Turkey), Ankara

2003 - 2005

TEMA, The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestration and the protection of Natural Habitats, Trabzon, Turkey.

2012 -

Courses

ELIT 119 Introduction to British History (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 203 Literary Theory & Criticism I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 301 British Poetry Prose I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 303 British Novel I (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 309 American Drama (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 403 British Novel III (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 407 American Poetry (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 124 Textual Analysis (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

TRA 104 Reading Skills II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 204 Literary Theory& Criticism II 3 (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 206 Mythology (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 302 British Poetry Prose II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 304 British Novel II (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 406 British Novel IV (2021-2022)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 119 Introduction to British History (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 203 Literary Theory & Criticism I (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 301 British Poetry Prose I (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 303 British Novel I (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 403 British Novel III (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 407 American Poetry (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 309 American Drama (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 304 British Novel II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 406 British Novel IV (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 302 British Poetry Prose II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 204 literary Theory & Criticism II (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 408 American Novel (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 206 Mythology (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

AME 202 Literary Terms (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

ELIT 201 Critical Thinking (2020-2021)

Weekly Hour : 3

Contact

Üniversite Cad. No: 37-39 Ağaçlı Yol
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