She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Comparative Literature at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her publications include Efendilik, Kölelik, Şarkiyatçılık (The Master, The Slave, The Orientalist, 1980); Babalar ve Oğullar: Türk Romanının Epistemolojik Temelleri (Fathers and Sons: The Epistemological Foundations of the Turkish Novel, 1990), Don Kiflot'tan Bugüne Roman (The Novel from Don Quijote until Today, 2000) and an edited volume with Sibel Irzık, Kadınlar Dile Düşünce (When Women Fall into Language, 2005). She has published various articles in Turkish and in English on the Turkish novel and on the questions of world and comparative literature.
Literature became one of the cultural areas which contributed to the discursive construction of nationhood in the new nation-states that were formed in eastern Europe… Detay
