Boğaziçi University | Current PhD Students

Aycan Akçamete (B.A. Hacettepe University, M.A. Hacettepe University)

Areas of Interest: Contemporary British drama, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Culture and Theater, Performance

Melis Günekan (B.A. Marmara University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare Adaptation, Turkish Theater, Ecopoetics

Working Dissertation Title: ”Adaptations and Rewritings of Shakespeare: The Reflection of Local and Political Concerns on the Stage in Turkey”

Lamia Kabal (B.A. Boğaziçi University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Critical Theory and Philosophy, Ecopoetics

Aysun Kan (B.A. Boğaziçi University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: In-yer-face Theatre, Ecopoetics

Merve Kansız (B.A. Boğaziçi University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: 20th/21st century British and American Drama, Performativity, Hate Speech, Islamophobia, Xenophobia

Şebnem Nazlı Karalı (B.A. Boğaziçi University, M.A. Bahçeşehir University)

Areas of Interest: Theatre and Performance studies, Diaspora Literature, Human Rights, Women playwrights from Middle East and Caucasia.

Can Koparan (B.A. Yeditepe University, M.A. Yeditepe University)

Areas of Interest: Contemporary Novel, Science Fiction Studies, Critical Theory, Anthropology

Working Dissertation Title: Language and Resistance in Contemporary Science Fiction Novel

Ömer Faruk Peksöz (M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: Literary Theory, Continental Philosophy, Theology

Bircan Sıkık (B.A. Hacettepe University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: British Romanticism, Victorian Poetry, Lyric Conventions in Western Literature, Suffering in Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry

Working Dissertation Title: Experimentations with the Lyric: The Classical Body in Pain Revisited in Contemporary Anglo-American Poetry

İpek Kotan Yiğit (B.A. Boğaziçi University, M.A. Boğaziçi University)

Areas of Interest: Victorian novel, the Gothic, American Transcendentalism, Genre Fiction (Horror, Mystery, Sci-fi), Semiotics