Kim Fortuny
Academic CV: KimFortuny_31.10.2022_CV
Contact Information: fortuny@boun.edu.tr
Areas of Expertise
Twentieth-Century English and American Poetry, Ecopoetics
Education
Ph.D., English, Emphasis on American Letters, The University of Iowa (2000)
M.A., English, Emphasis on Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American and English Letters, Portland State University (1993)
B.A., Western Languages and Literatures, Boğaziçi University (1988)
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
El 101/102: Survey of English Literature
ENGL 105: Introduction to Literary Forms
HUM 101/102: Cultural Encounters I/II
CL 205/206: Literary Theory and Criticism I/II
EL 201: Medieval Literature
EL 202: The English Renaissance
AL 311: Survey of America Literature, 17th-19th Centuries
AL 312: Survey of American Literature, 19th Century to Present
EL 303: Restoration and Augustan Literature
EL 306: The Romantics
EL 305: Studies in Shakespeare
EL 408: Modern Poetry
EL 412: Senior Thesis
Department Electives:
AL 487: American Nature Writing
CL 486: Literature and the Environment
EL 484: The American Romantics
CL 481: Twentieth-Century Poets on Poetry
AL 488: Fiction of the American South
EL 489: Creative Non-Fiction: The Essay
Graduate Courses:
MA:
EL 511: 20th-Century North American Poetry: Modernism to Postmodernism
EL 688: Travel Literature and Social Aesthetics
EL 588: Ecopoetics
PhD:
EL 68K: Ecopoetics
EL 68A: Pro-Seminar: Literary Aesthetics
Selected Publications
Books:
Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture: Ecocriticism and Transnational Literature. London: I.B. Tauris (Bloomsbury Press), 2019.
American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, Baldwin, Settle. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Travel. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2003.
Refereed Articles
“Nazim Hikmet’s Ecopoetics and the Gezi Park Protests.” Middle Eastern Literatures (SOAS, Routledge) 19.2 (2016): 162-184.
“Herman Melville’s Near East Journal and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Five Cities: Affinities of Culture, Nature, and Islamic Mysticism in Istanbul.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Routledge). 37.2 (2015): 127-145.
“Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Pink Dog’ and Other Non-Human Animals.” Textual Practice (Routledge). 29.6 (2015): 1099-1116. Reprinted in Literary Theory: An Anthology. Third Edition. Eds. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2017. 1567-1580.
“Islam, Westernization and Post-Humanist Place: The Case of the Istanbul Street Dog.” ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment) (Oxford UP). 21.2 (2014): 271-297.
“James Baldwin’s 1970 Turkish Interviews: “The American way of life” and the Rhetoric of War from Vietnam to the Near and Middle East.” TSLL (Texas Studies in Literature and Language), University of Texas Press. 55.4 (2013): 434-451.
“Public Tropes and Private Narratives: Orientalist Discourse in Byron’s The Giaour.” Interactions. Izmir: Ege University Press, 2011.
“The Integration of Nature and Culture in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s ‘Poetics of Loss.’” Journal of Turkish Literature. Ankara: Bilkent University Press, 2011.
