Undergraduate courses taught at Bilkent (2012-2016)
First-year
- Selections in English Literature (Medieval and Early Modern Literature)
- British History
Second-year
- British Society and Culture
- Research & Writing Techniques for Literary Essays
- Literature & Photography (elective course)
Third-year
- Renaissance Literature
- Modern British Fiction I (1900-1950)
Fourth-year
- Theory & Practice of Criticism
- British Drama
- Twentieth-Century Poetry
Research Supervision
I have supervised a wide range of undergraduate Senior Projects, from an academic paper on the figure of the dandy in the works of Oscar Wilde and David Bowie, to a drama project presenting scenes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Postgraduate Supervision
Supervisor for Ankara University English Literature PhD thesis on 'Representing and Challenging Censorship on the English Stage, 1965-2005', currently in preparation.
Jury member on several theses written in the MA/TEFL programme run by the Graduate Faculty of Education at Bilkent, most recently for theses on non-native teacher identities and on inter-cultural communicative competence.
University of Strathclyde - Graduate Teaching Assistant
While a doctoral student I worked as a GTA, teaching seminars on the Romanticism and Modernism course, and receiving a Teaching Excellence Award.
University of Edinburgh, Institute for Applied Language Studies - English Language Instructor
In the summer of 2006 I was a full-time, temporary teacher of EFL to classes of adult international students. These courses were largely intended for students considering going on to pursue postgraduate studies at Edinburgh or elsewhere.
Other EFL and translator roles
From 1998-2007, I worked in a variety of positions as an EFL teacher and tutor, in Italy, England and Scotland. This included a period with Berlitz in Edinburgh, and another working as a translator at the Ospedale Pellegrini in Naples.
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