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1. Name Surname : Emsal Sema EGE

2. Academic Title : Full Professor

3. Education:

High School: Türk Egitim Derneği Ankara Maarif Koleji (TED), (Ankara College)

1968

Degree Field of Study

University Year

BA English Literature (also some American courses)

T. C. Ankara Üniversitesi University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, Department of English Language and Literature

1971

MA: English Literature

University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, Department of English Literature

1975

MLitt English Studies University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

1981

PhD English/America n Studies (Utopias and Social Histories)

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

1987

4. Academic Titles

Philologist : University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages and History-Geography,

Department of English

Literature (İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, T. C. Ankara

Üniversitesi) 1991

Assistant Professor :University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages and

History-Geography, Department of English Literature, 1991

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Associate Professor: University of Ankara, Faculty of Languages and

History-Geography, Department of English Literature, October1995

Full Professor : Assistant Professor, University of Ankara, Faculty of

Languages and History-Geography, Department of English Literature,

April 2001

5. Supervisor MA, Doctorate Theses

Unless otherwise requested, most dissertations in The Faculty of Languages and

History-Geography are written in Turkish. One major purpose: To offer those who

are interested in other literatures but not famliar with the languages, the chance to

learn about other cultures.

5.1 MA

- 'Social analysis in three satirical postwar academic novels from the fifties to the

eighties:Lucky Jim(1954)by Kingsley Amis,Eating People is Wrong(1959)by

Malcolm Bradbury, and Changing Places(1975 )by David Lodge', T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, 2006.

' "Anti-hero" : A Comparative Study of Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow and Evelyn

Waugh's Decline and Fall ' (Turkish) Ankara Üniversitesi, T.C. 2009.

-‘The Gothic and Female Identity Relation in Angela Carter and Emma

Tenant’(Turkish), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2009.

-‘ “Exile” and "Alienation" in T. Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, J. Conrad’s Lord

Jim, and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ (Turkish), T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi, 2010.

-‘A Marxist Reading of William Morris’s News from Nowhere, E.

Bellamy’s Looking Backward, and H. G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia’ (Turkish), T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi, 2010.

-‘A Darwinian Reading of Detective Fiction in the Nineteenth Century English

Literature’ (Turkish), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2011.

- 'The Relationship Between Location and the Hero/ine in Doris Lessing's The

Grass Is Singing and Anita Brookner's Latecomers ' (Turkish), T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, 2012.

- ‘A Darwinian Reading of George Eliot and a Social Darwinian Reading of W. D.

Howells 1870-1890” (Turkish), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2012.

- 'War and Alienation in G. Greene and E. Hemingway ’ (Turkish) , T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, 2013.

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-'Social Criticism Through "Alienation" in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and

Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (Turkish)”, T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2013.

-'A Comparative Study of the Elements of Power in Jack London’s Iron Heel and G.

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (Turkish), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2013.

- 'The Relationship Between Man and the Cosmic Power in H. G. Wells’s The War

of the Worlds, Doris Lessing’s The Making of The Representative for Planet 8, and

Maggie Gee’s The Flood' (Turkish) , T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2013.

-'Post-colonial Feminism: Jean Rhys and Chinua Achebe' (Turkish) , T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, 2014.

-‘Jung and "Archetypal Imagery" in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, ,

Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and George MacDonald's

Phantastes (Turkish) , T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2015.

5.2 Doctorate

- 'Feminist literary critical approach to H.G.Wells' Ann Veronica, Arnold

Bennett's Helen With the High Han, and D.H.Lawrence's Women in Love', T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi

- 'Through the Eyes of Thomas Hardy: Status of Women Within the Socio- Cultural Context of Victorian Society', T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

-''Cyberpunk: Gibson and Sterling' , T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

- ' A Comparative Study of Ideas of “Waste Land” in T.S. , Eliot, O. Wilde, and S.

Plath',

T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi (Turkish)

(Works assigned and supervised from 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 till retirement in

October 2016)

MA

‘The Images of Child in the Eighteenth Century Fiction; Child and Parent Relations

Through a Century (D.Defoe, Richardson, H. Fielding, O. Goldsmith, T. Smollett,

and J. Austen) (Turkish), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

DOCTORATE:

-‘The British Romantic Poets and American Transcendentalists’(Turkish) , T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi

'A Comparative Study of the Works of (‘science fiction’) P.D. James, Lowry, and

K. Ishiguro', T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

-'Parallelisms (in the use of Location) in the Works of Bennett and Woolf -the

Writers With Opposite Notions of “The Novel” '(Turkish) , T.C. Ankara

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Üniversitesi

-' “Passages” to India-“Passages” to Britain: A Comparative Study of the Ideas of

Empire in R. Kipling, E.M. Forster, and S. Rushdie (Turkish), T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi

-'War and “Wars” in W. Morris, J. London, H.G. Wells, S. Crane, E. Hemingway,

and J. D. Passos' (Turkish) , T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

- 'Ideology, Power, Discourse, and Gender in Sarah Scott, Florence Dixie, and Fay

Weldon', Atılım University (External Supervisor):

A Selected List of Graduate Dissertations

-'Elements of Suspense in Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray'

- 'Seventeenth Century English Women Poets'

- 'Lady Eleanor Davies and Literature'

-'Anne Bradstreet and Poetry”

-'Virginia Woolf’s The Waves As Displaying Her Understanding of Novel

(Modernist Fiction)'

- “ 'Lord Peter Wimsey' in Dorothy Leigh’s Whose Body”

-'Metaphysical Poetry and Henry Vaughan '

-'The Importance of English Emblem Books'

-'Materialism in John Galsworthy’s The Man of Property'

-'Anti-Hero in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow '

-'Social Criticism in Kingsley Amis’in Lucky Jim'

-'Symbols in Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock '

-'Thackeray and Poetry' - 'Oscar Wilde as a Poet' - ' "State of Inertia” in Osborne’s Two Plays'

-'Arthur Miller, “The Collapse" of the "American Dream"'

- 'Town and Country in Whitman’s Poetry'

-'Katherine Anne Porter's Women Characters'

- 'The "Good" and the "'Bad" in J. R. R. Tolkien'

- 'Criticism of Imperialism in Orwell’s Burmese Days'

- 'Chraracter Study in Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana'

- 'Thomas Carlyle’s Understanding of the "Superior Man/Overman"'

- 'Nature: W. Blake's “The Sick Rose”, W. Cowper’s “ The Poplar-Field”, Anne

Finch’s “To the Nightingale” '

-'Character study in Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes'

- 'H.G.Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau, Man and Science'

- 'A Study of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Women Characters in The Hound of the

Baskervilles'

-'Character Study in John Galsworthy’s Strife '

-'A Comparative Study of Jane Austen’s ‘Catherine’; Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Half A

Life Time Ago’ '

- 'Religion in Graham Greene’s, The Heart of the Matter '

-'Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s Father Brown '

- 'Women in George Meredith’s The Egoist'

-'Characters in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes '

- 'Ideas of "Rebirth/Reneval'' in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities '

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-'Elemets of Suspense in Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe'

-'A Comparative Study of Themes in Virginia Woolf's and Katherine Mansfield's

Stories'

-- 'Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce as Writers of Suspense'

-'Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders: Character Study'

- 'W. Collins; Imperialism '

-'T. L. Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey'

- 'D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers; Female Characters'

- 'George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London'

-'George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier'

-'Rudyard Kipling, "The Man Who Would Be King"; Notions of Imperialism'

- “Fast Food Culture and American Fast Food Eaters”

-'Charles Dickens’s Hard Times; Character Study'

- '“The House as the Hell" ; Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights'

- 'Society and Women in Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd, The

Woodlanders, Tess of the Dubervilles, and Jude The Obscure '

- 'Anthony Trollope’s S. Harding in The Warden'

-'Women Characters and Self-Discovery in George Eliot’s Middlemarch'

- 'Alienaton in Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray '

-'Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'', ‘'Ode on the Death of a

Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’' , '‘Ode on the Spring’' '

-'Robert Browning’s ‘'Love Among the Ruins'’, ‘'Home Thoughts From Abroad'’,

‘'Prospice” '

- 'W. Wordsworth’s “The Daffodils”, “To the Daisy” '

- 'Elements of Comedy in George Farquhar’s The Beaux Stratagem' --'D.H. Lawrance’s Sons and Lovers, A Study of Paul ' -'A Study of Thomas Hardy’s Short Stories: ''On the Western Circuit'', ''To Please

His Wife'', ''The Fidler of the Reels'', ''A Few Crusted Character” '

- 'A Comapartive Study of ‘Romance’ and ‘Picaresque’ Fiction'

-'Fanny Burney’s Camilla- A Picture of Youth ,The Relationship Between the

Woman and the Society'

- 'The Child in William Blake’s po etry (‘'The School Boy'’)'

-'William Shakespeare’s ''Portia; Julius Caesar '

- 'Pastoral Elements in Anne Finch’s ‘'A Nocturnal Reverie'’ and William

Collins’is‘'Ode to Evening” '

--'Characters and Viewpoints in T. L. Peacock’s Headlong Hall '

-'The Way of All Flesh: As Bildungsroman'

- 'A Study of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles as Detective

Fiction'

- 'George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four , The Annihilation of Individualism ”

- 'Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford; Society and Woman'

-'“Lonliness'' in Alfred Tennyson’s ‘'The Lady of Shalott’' and Lord Byron’s‘'The

Prisoners of Chillon’' '

- 'Character Study: Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock'

- 'Bram Stoker 's Dracula, Horror Fiction'

-'Elements of Suspense/Horror in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Stories'

-'Notions of Charity in Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield and T.

Smollett's Humphry Clinker'

- 'Francis Bacon as a Utopian'

-'Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones: the Country and the Town'

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- 'Women Characters in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility'

- ' "Pathos’' in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities ”

-'Thomas Hardy’s Women Characters in The Woodlanders'

- 'A Comparative Study of Lucy Snowe and Madame Beck in Charlotte

Bronte’s Vilette'

-'Oscar Wilde’s Understanding of Socialism'

- 'Symbols in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe '

- 'Estrangement in George Eliot’s Silas Marner'

-'Cultural Differences in Henry James’s The Golden Bowl'

- 'Social Life in the Eighteenth Century and in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice '

- 'The French Revolution and Britain in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities'

- 'Eighteenth Century Comedy: Character Study; She Stoops to Conquer '

- ' Symbols in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights'

-'Benjamin Disraeli’s Coningsby; Political Notions'

-'Characters in E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View'

- 'John Galsworthy’s Strife; Character Study'

- 'Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers '

- 'Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: the Parent and the Child'

-'Eighteenth Century Comedy: George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem'

-'Nature in William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau

- 'Notions of Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century Poetry'

- 'Symbols in Virginia Woolf’'s Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves '

- 'Orientalist Texts in English Literature'

-'Charles Darwin; As a Man of Letters and As a Man of Science' -'A Study of H.G. Wells's Approach to Imperialism / Capitalism in The War of the Worlds and in In the Days of the Comet' -'The Impact of Scotland and Samoa on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Catriona ' - 'A Study of Doris Lessing’s Short Stories, A Man and Two Women '

- 'A Study of Women in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge'

- 'The Theme of ''Goodness' in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice'

- 'Man and Sin in R. Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nathaniel

Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment '

-'The Theme of ''Poverty'' in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Roxana'

- ' ''Young Woman'' in Margaret Drabble’s The Garrick Year and A Summer Bird-

Cage'

-'Town and the Country in Thomas Hardy’s Jude The Obscure and The Mayor of

Casterbridge'

- 'Women in Margaret Cavendish's Works'

- 'The Theme of Disappointment/Frustration in William Makepeace

Thackeray’s Henry Esmond'

- 'Social Criticism in Dombey and Son'

- 'A Study of Industrialisation in 'William Morris’in News From Nowhere , '

- 'Abraham Cowley's Poetry '

-'Warnings' in H.G. Wells’ın The Time Machine and in The First Men in the Moon'

- 'A Study of Female Issues in Fanny Burney’s Evelina '

-'The Island Tradition in XVI - XVIII. Literature'

- 'Samuel Butler and Satire'

- 'A Comparative Study of Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe’s

Poetry'

- 'Gothic Eements in The Magic Toyshop'

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-'Social Ills (Poverty) in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and Silas Marner ' - 'A Comparative Study of Stories of Adventure: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island '

-'Materialism in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones '

- 'Transnationalism, Imperialism in Kipling’s Kim''

- 'Fanny Burney; Cecilia , The Relationship Between Women and Society'

-'Symbols of Movement and Transition in Coleridge's ''Frost At

Midnight'', Shelley's ''Ode to the West Wind'', and Browning's ''Love Among The

Ruins'' '

- 'The Theme of Frustration in Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall and The Needle’s

Eye '

- 'A Comparative Study of Characters in Ivanhoe and The Last of the Mohicans'

Some Comparative Studies of Turkish Translations of

- 'Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express'

- 'Virginia Woolf, 'To The Lİghthouse'

-'The Spy Who Came in From The Cold'

- 'Translation of Charles Lamb’s Essays'

- 'Jailbird'

-'The Democratic Way of Life'

- 'Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man"

- 'Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Sırça Fanus"

Sema Ege: Teaching Philosophy True/Humanly Progress.

Intensive Research, Transcending Inner and Outer Limits/Limitations;

Sharing the findings with others, Modesty, Objectivity.

The purpose is to make the students enter the "life after the university" with the

knowledge, the skill, and the experience essential for success, that is, as people

capable of making sound contributions to human progress.

Language:

The purpose, through the study of texts in English, is

to enable the students to develop a greater understanding of language and its

effects, of the conventions of English usage, and of diverse modes of expression -

and, thereby, make them capable of conveying their knowledge of literature and

articulating their own ideas in an effective/impressive way. That is, make them

capable of not only exact thinking but also capable of exactness of expression.

Literature:

To enable the students to have a sound knowledge of English/American

Literature, hence an idea about the history of these cultures as literature, in a

way, is the product and the reflection and to some extent the "arbiter", "the

shaper" of (in a word, the epitome of) historical developments.

Life: The purpose,

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through the study of literary texts -that is, the observations, insights, comments,

criticisms, forebodings, warnings, aspirations, dreams, visions of creative and

innovating men and women, through their paradoxical or relatively straightforward

approaches to man and his place in society and/or in the universe, is

-to enable the students to have a greater understanding of human nature, of human

motivations and values,

-to enable the students to have a wider, clearer, sounder view of other peoples'

motivations, ways/modes of thinking and/or aspirations -hence help to remove the

possible causes of gaps and separations -thereby leading to much smoother relations

between peoples with different cultural, social, political, and economic

histories,

-to make the students perceive the interrelatedness of various disciplines,

-to awaken the students to very essence of life, that is, the uniqueness of things, that

no two things are alike, but equally, and paradoxically, the

interrelatedness of facts, and also to what J. Donne put as: 'no man is an

island'.

-to make the students realize that things that may appear as opposites can be

complementary,

-to furnish the students with the ability to look at things from diverse perspectives,

-to make them have a full grasp of the importance of creative thinking, of creativity

-that is, the importance/essential goodness of creating, in A. Marvell's words,

'far other worlds and seas', or of what W. Blake put as: 'what is the life of man,

but Art and Science'; to make them realise that for man with infinite

potentialities of creativity not even "the sky is the limit"

Thus the Ultimate Goal is

- to enable the students to discover and enlarge their mental potentialities/

proclivities, to broaden their minds,

-to furnish the students with the progressive reasoning power, the ability of

establishing evidence for why something is so,

-to make the students realise that not only knowledge but a critical and

inquiring mental habit, the flexibility of mind as opposed to rigidity (the rigid way

of thinking) is the sole prerequisite of true / humanly progress. TEXTS -READING SKILLS I, II

Prof. Dr E Sema Ege: ANTHOLOGY

ANTHOLOGY: Texts Selected and Compiled by Prof. Dr E Sema Ege

(University/Academic Sources, Travel/Museum Sources, English Literature and American

Literature etc.). The Anthology includes informative and thought provoking questions -

questions intended to promote/improve critical/analytical and creative thinking- as well as

questions meant to build up English. All questions are prepared by E. S. Ege. (To be

published)

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-ENGLISH /AMERICAN LITERATURE (Symbiosis) I, II

Prof. Dr E Sema Ege: ANTHOLOGY I

An Anthology of English and American Literary Texts. (English Literature: from

Beowulf to English Romantics. American Literature: from Colonial Times -e.g. William

Bradford- to Transcendentalism.) All texts are selected and compiled by Prof. Dr E Sema

Ege. The Anthology also contains informative questions as well as questions intended to

foster critical/analytical and creative thinking. All questions are prepared by E. S.

Ege. (To be published)

- ENGLISH /AMERICAN LITERATURE (Symbiosis)

Prof. Dr E Sema Ege: ANTHOLOGY II

English and American Literary Texts; Selected and Compiled by Prof. Dr E Sema

Ege. (English Literature: from English Romantics to the Present. American Literature:

from Transcendentalism to the Present.) The Anthology contains informative questions

as well as questions intended to enhance critical/analytical and creative thinking. All

questions are prepared by E. S. Ege. (To be published)

6. Publications

- 2019 ( An Anthology of English/American Texts; selected and compiled by E Sema EGE

- 2018-2019 Academic Year, Reading Class [ contains informative and thought

provoking questions by E Sema EGE ] ) To be published.

6.1 Articles in Peer Reviewed Periodicals

-Ege. E.S., 'Amerika'nın ilk Kadın Edebiyatçıları, "Yeni Dünyanın" "Yeni

Kadınları": Ann Bradstreet (1612-1672), Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727), Phillis

Wheatley (1754-1784)' (' "The New Women" of "the New World", Ann Bradstreet

(1612-1672), Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727), Phillis Wheatley (1754-

1784), Littera, vol. 34, pp. 9-28. 2015 (Turkish)

-Ege. E.S., 'Yeni Bir Kıtada, Amerika'da, Kimlik Oluşturmak ve UlusOlmak, Bradford'dan B, Franklin'e, Jefferson'a, ve P. Frenau'ya' ('The Rise of a

New Nation in America, from Bradford to B. Franklin, Jefferson, and P.

Frenau'), Littera, vol. 33, Ankara, 2014 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., 'The Lonely Voyagers at the "Salted Death "; from Shakespeare to

Darwin, from Coleridge to Melville, from Defoe and Swift to Poe and Conrad ',

Littera, vol. 30, pp. 97-112, Ankara, June 2012

-Ege. E.S., 'William Golding and Doris Lessing: The Island, the Planet, and

Cosmic Determinism', Littera, vol. 28 , pp. 79-92 , Ankara, 2011

-Ege. E.S., ‘Üç Ülke, Üç Kadın Yazar: V. Woolf (1882-1941), H. E. Adıvar

(1884-1964), ve Katherine A. Porter (1894-1980)’ (‘Three Different Countries,

Three Different Female Writers- V. Woolf, and H.E. Adıvar, Katherine. A.

Porter), Littera, vol. 27

- Ege. E.S., ‘İngiliz ve Amerikalı Yazarlar: Savaş Konusu ve Unsurları (1800-

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1955)’ (‘Approaches to War in English and American Literature (1800-1955 ’ )\

Littera, vol. 26,

- Ege. E.S., ‘A Brief Look at Darwinism, American Industrialism, and English

Scientific Fantasy, 1880-1914’, Littera, vol. 25 Ankara, December, 2009

- Ege. E.S., Amerika’da Kommunistik Yerleşkeler, Utopia ve Reform, 1800-

1900’ (‘Communistic Settlements in the United States of America, Utopia

and Reform, 1800-1900’) Littera, vol. 23, Ankara, December 2008

-Ege. E.S., ‘İngiliz ve Amerikan Edebiyatında Militarist Düşünceler’ ( ‘Notions

of Militarism in the Nineteenth Century American and English

Literature), Littera, vol. 21, Ankara, December 2007

- '18 .yy ve 19 yy. İngiliz ve Amerikan Yazınlarında Gelişim, Yazar, ve Yazım

(Sanat, Bilim, Bilgi' (‘Progress and Literature: Art, Science, and Knowledge in

the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English and American Literary Texts’) ,

Littera, vol. 20, Ankara, June 2007

- Ege. E.S., ‘Milliyetçilik ve On dokuzuncu Yüzyıl İngiliz ve Amerikan Edebiyatı'

(‘Patriotism in the Nineteenth Century English and American Prose and Poetry’,

Littera, vol. 19, pp. 69-86, Ankara, June, 2006

7.2 Paper Presentations, Organizer, Chair, Key Note Speaker at International Conferences

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E. Sema Ege, Chair, Society for Utopian Studies, Disruption Displacement Disorder, 43rd Annual

Conference Berkeley, California, November 1-3, 2018, Chair 3.1: Utopian Disharmony and Ambiguity

(Clark Kerr) 3 Presentations, November 1, 2018

E. Sema Ege, Paper Presentation, Society for Utopian Studies, Disruption Displacement Disorder, 43rd

Annual Conference Berkeley, California, November 1-3, 2018 9.1: Disruptive Ability and Otherness (Clark

Kerr) Sunum “The Feeble Protests/Disruptions of the Disrupted, of the “You do not accept us” es; Conrad’s

“Amy Foster”, Bradbury’s Eating People is Wrong, Butlin’s “The German Boy”” November 3, 2018

VHC, Virginia, Salem, Roanoke, USA, 2018 VIRGINIA HUMANITIES

CONFERENCE, 23-24 March; March 23, 2018 Friday, 3:00–4:45, Session 2c/Taking Concrete Steps [Location: President’s Dining Room—upstairs]; “The Sad Story of the ‘Beloved’

‘Foe/Prey’” (The cancellations of all flights to New York because of the snow storm in New York

(area) on March 21, 2018 have rendered the attendance to the Conference impossible. Yet the full

paper itself was sent to the Conference to be read at the scheduled time. (Turkish Airlines ticket

Istanbul- New York, March 21, 8.15AM; NY-Roanoke Amtrak: eTicket and Receipt for 03/22/2018

Trip Ticket Number 07………85, Train 171:New York (Penn Station), NY-Roanoke, VA Depart 12.35 PM, Thursday, March 22, 2018)

- Ege. E.S., ‘ “A Bosporus Adventure”, Mary M. Patrick’s, Passos’s, and

Hemingway’s Istanbul: The Western Eye Reading the East is an Eye that Casts

Light onto Its Own View of Life’ , Urban Humanities Convergence Conference at

Essex County College, Newark, USA, March 16-18, 2016

- Ege. E.S., Paper Presentation: 'Science, Friend or Foe? From Bacon to Franklin, to

Wells; From Swift to Stevenson, Forster, Hemingway, and Huxley’, 46th Annual

Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), University at

Buffalo, The State University of New York in cooperation with Ryerson University,

Toronto, Canada, April 30-May 3, 2015

- Ege. E.S., Panel Organizer (Two Panels) and Chair, Panel I and Panel II, 'Science, Ethics, Progress vs. Science, Vice, Crime/Disaster', 46th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association

(NeMLA), University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in cooperation

with Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, April 30-May 3, 2015

Ege. E.S., PANEL I: 'Science, Ethics, Progress vs. Science, Vice, Crime/Disaster';

Papers selected:

1. 'Life and Death Appear to Me Ideal Bounds: The Role of Fragmentation and Text

in Frankestein'", North Caroline State University.

2.'Knowledge That Kills: The Lifted Veil and the Danger of Omniscience' Brown

University.

3.'Speculative (Non)Fiction: The Ethical Uses of H. G. Wells's "The Limits of

Individual Plasticity" ', Wilfrid Laurier University.

Ege. E.S., PANEL II. , 'Science, Ethics, Progress vs. Science, Vice,

Crime/Disaster' Papers selected:

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1.'Rappaccini, Dr. Heidegger, Own and Aylmer: Hawthorne's 'Nature Defi(l)ers" ', Blaise Pascal University.

2.'Ethical Concerns in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go2, Mustafa Kemal University.

3.'Something Goes Wrong in Such a Perfect Plan: Lois Lowry's The Giver, Atılım

University.

- Ege. E.S., 'The Influence and Lyrical Epitome of Wilde's Stories Illustrating

Children's Suffering', 45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language

Association (NeMLA), University at Buffalo, (Susquehanna University) Harrisburg,

Pennsylvania, USA, April 3-6, 2014

- Ege. E.S., 'From Wellesley to "Bosporus" : An American Female Utopia Realized

in Istanbul', The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) , College of Charleston, South

Carolina, Charleston, USA November 14-17, 2013

- Ege. E.S., 'The History of Evil Innovators in English and American Fiction: "Fatal Science" in the "Fatal" Garden, the "Fatal" Cellar, the "Fatal" Room, and the

"Fatal" Island '”, 3rd International BAKEA Symposium of Western Cultural and

Literary Studies, Gaziantep, Turkey, October 9-11, 2013

- Ege. E.S., ‘ “The Jolly Corner” of the “Buried Alive”: The Utopia of the Distressed

Individual in Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, and

Doris Lessing’, The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) , Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2012

- Ege. E.S., Chair: Session 37 ‘THOMAS MORE’, Society for Utopian Studies

(SUS) , Toronto, Canada, October 4-7, 2012

- Ege. E.S., 43rd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association

(NeMLA in association with John Fischer College), Rochester, New

York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

-Ege. E.S., Paper Presentation, ' "Crusoes" in Shakespeare, Swift, Melville, Darwin,

Twain, Conrad, and Wells: "Crusoes" or Not?’ : 43rd Annual Convention,

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), John Fischer College,

Rochester, New York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

-Ege. E.S., Panel Organizer (Two Panels) and Chair: 43rd Annual Convention,

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), John Fischer College,

Rochester, New York, USA, March 14-17, 2012

Ege. E.S., PANEL I: “‘Ancient Mariners’ and the Sea, the Deck, and the Island”,

March 15, 2012 ;

Ege. E.S., PANEL II: “The Seafarers –Victims or Heroes?” , March 17, 2012

PapersSelected:

-'The Antebellum Anxieties of Race and Gender in E. A. Poe’s The Narrative of

Arthur Gordon Pym' (USA)

-'Being a True Account of Susan Barton: The Unknowable in J.M.

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Coetzee’s Foe '(USA)

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-'Dual Instincts:Dueling,Voyaging and the Pleasure Principle in Conrad’s Tales'

(USA)

-'Conrad’s Sea and Ship as Paradigms of Paradoxical Unities'(UK)

-'The Changing Psychology at Sea: Melville’s Moby Dick and Conrad’s ‘'Typhoon'’ '

(Turkey)

- Ege. E.S., ‘Catastrophe as the Saviour –H.G. Wells (In the Days of the Comet) and

H. Rahmi Gürpınar (A Wedding under the Comet)’, 'Dashed All to Pieces, Tempests

and Other Natural Disasters in Literary Image, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de

Letras, Portugal, 1-3 December 2011.

- Ege. E.S., ‘Streets of London, Mystery, Pain, and Hope’ (Turkish, “Londra

Sokakları: Gizem, Acı, Ümit”) Ankara University, 2nd International Conference –

Literature and Science, Turkey, November 3-5, 2011

- Ege. E.S., ‘Romantic Poetry –The Real and Eternal Archive of Utopia’, The

Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) in association with Penn State University, State

College, Pennsylvania, The United States of America; October, 2011

-Ege. E.S., 'E. Waugh’s '`Vile Bodies"- H.G. Wells’s "Samurai" ', Evelyn Waugh

Society, Somerset, Bath, United Kingdom, August 2011

- Ege. E.S., ‘Doris Lessing and William Golding: The Victims of Pre-

Destination’, 42st Northeast Modern Languages Association Convention, Rutgers

University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, The United States of America; April, 2011

- Ege. E.S., Virginia Woolf and “Woolfs” of Other Lands’, Society for Utopian

Studies (in association with Carleton University) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The

United States of America, ‘October, 2010

- Ege. E.S., Souls, Secrets, and Stars, Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells –Fin de

Siècle Observers’, 41st Northeast Modern Languages Association Convention (Host

Institution McGill University), Montreal, Canada; ‘April 2010

- Ege. E.S., ‘Doris Lessing and H. G. Wells, Mankind in the Making’, University of

Atılım, Idea Conference, Ankara; April 2010

- Ege. E.S., ‘Conrad, “The End of the Tether” and H. G. Wells, “The Mind at the

End of Tether” ’, The Joseph Conrad Society in association with Chapman

University -Conrad Under California Skies- Los Angeles, The United States of

America: January 2010

- Ege. E.S., ‘From the Galapagos Islands to the "Island of Dr Moreau", From the

“Origin of Species” to “the War of the Worlds”, University of Porto (Universidade

do Porto), Portugal,(Dis)entangling Darwin; December, 2009

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Ottoman Sultans and the English Men of Letters’, University of

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Presov, Slovakia, Crossing the Boundaries –Transgressing the Boundaries in New

Literatures in English; October 2009

- Ege. E.S., Chair, University of Presov, Slovakia, Crossing the Boundaries –

Transgressing the Boundaries in New Literatures in English; Session: American

Post Colonial Crossings, ‘Crossing the Boundaries and Frontiers , 26 October 2009

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Prophet as the “Superman” and “The Game of Cheat the Prophet"',

University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), Portugal, 10th International Conference

of the Utopian Studies Society; July 2009

-Ege. E.S., ‘Savaş ve İngiliz ve Amerikan Yazarlar, 1800-1970’ (‘War in English

and American Literary Texts, 1800-1970’) (Turkish) , University of

Ankara, International Symposium, Literature and Science I, May, 2009

- Ege. E.S., ; ‘The Child of Nature, “The Yellow-Breached” Philosophers versus

The Children of the “Machine Culture”, “The Enfant Terrible”’, 9th International

Conference of the Utopian Studies Society in association with University of

Limerick, Ireland, July 2008

- Ege. E.S., Keynote Speaker, Has Anything Changed since the “Taming of the

Shrew” ?’ Shakespeare 2008, Universitatea “Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University

of Galati), Romania; ‘ April, 2008

- Ege. E.S., ' What We Owe to the Departments of American and English

Literatures of the University of Ankara' (Turkish), The Republic and the Faculty

of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya (The Faculty of Languages and History-Geography' )

Convention, May 2008

- Ege. E.S., Chair , The Republic and the Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya;

Convention,

- Ege. E.S.,

May 2008

‘The Food and the “Food of Growth” ’, Kültür University ,

The

Representations of Food in British Literature, Istanbul, November 2007

- Ege. E.S., Keynote Speaker, ‘Shakespeare as a Universalist’, Universitatea

“Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Romania, Shakespeare 2006 ;

April 2006

- Ege. E.S., ‘ “From Paradise Lost” to The “Paradise Gained”, The Yearnings of

Female Characters in Works Which are not Utopias’, The Society for Utopian

Studies, Colorado Springs, The United States of America; October, 2006 (the paper

was accepted for the Conference; the full paper was sent via email; yet for health

reasons, the Conference could not be attended )

-Ege. E.S., University of Ankara, Literary Texts, International

Symposium; ‘Nineteenth Century American-English Literature and

Patriotism’(Turkish) (‘19. yy. Amerikan-İngiliz Edebiyat ve

Milliyetçilik’), Ankara, November 2006

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- Ege. E.S., ‘ “The Cry of the Children”, Children as the Symbiosis on Both Sides of

the Atlantic’, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Symbiosis:, Anglo-

American Literary Relations, Biennial Conference; 30 June- 3 July 2005

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Call of the Wild in Utopia’, The Society for Utopian Studies, San

Antonio, Texas, The United States of America, November 1999

- Ege. E.S., ‘ “Passages to India”, The Moses and the Enfant Terrible, the Masters of

Symbiosis’, University of the West of England, Bristol, The United

Kingdom, Anglo-American Textual Relations, Symbiosis; July 1999

- Ege. E.S., Magee College, Derry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Borders and

Crossings; ‘ “Down and Out” in Paris, London, and Istanbul’, July 1998

- Ege. E.S., ‘Reversing the Voyage of “Mayflower”’, The University College of

St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, The United Kingdom, Symbiosis Inaugural

Conference, Anglo-American Textual Relations; March 1997

- Ege. E.S., ‘ “The Martian” Attack on Victorian Society’, 15th All-Turkey

English Literature Conference, The British Council in association with the University

of Hacettepe, University, Ankara; April 1994

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Critical Outsider and his Political Rhetoric’, The H.G. Wells

Society in association with North London University, London, The United

Kingdom, The H.G. Wells Society Annual Conference; September 1993

Some of the International Conferences attended without a paper presentation

- The H. G. Wells Society in association with The Polytechnic of North

London, London, The United Kingdom, Annual Conference of the H.G.

Wells Society, September 1987, 1989, 1991, 1997

- International Symposium, Eaton Programme for Science Fiction and Fantasy

Studies, The Centenary of The Time Machine; The H. G. Wells Society (Host

Institution Imperial College of Science and Technology), London, July 1995

- International Conference of Science Fiction, University of Liverpool, The United

Kingdom, July 1996

7.2 Sections in (Contributions to) Scholarly/Academic Publications

-Ege. E.S. ,' "Socialism" in American Literature in the Post-Civil War Industrial

Capitalism: An Alternative to Marxism and Its Emphasis on ( the Inevitability of)

Class War' ('Amerika'da On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Sonu Endüstriyel Kapitalizm

Döneminde Marxizmi ve Sınıf Çatışması Söylemini Etkisizleştiren Edebiyat'),

TheTurn of the Century in Western Literatures (Batı Kültür ve Edebiyatlarında

Yüzyıl Dönümü Kitabı) , pp.51-93; Faculty of Languages and History -Geography

(Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Yayınları): 423; T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi

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Yayınları: 577;December 2017 (Turkish)

-Ege. E.S., 'Wilde's Stories: Lyrical and Universal Epitome of Adult Indifference

to Children's Suffering', Part II, pp. 80-116, Quintessential Wilde, His Worldly

Place, His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism, ed. Annette

M. Magid, SUNY Erie, Buffalo, New York, USA, Cambridge Scholars

Publishing, January 2017

-Ege. E.S., 'Amerikan Rüyası, Benjamin Franklin'in "Poor Richard"ı, Washington

Irving'in Rip Van Winkle'ı, (' "The American Dream", Benjamin Franklin's "Poor

Richard", Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle'), Batı Kültür ve Edebiyatlarında

Klasizm Kitabı, (Classism in Western Literatures and Cultures), pp .33-

56, T.C.Ankara Üniversitesi (Ankara University), June-July 2016

-Ege. E.S. ‘Klasizme Giden Süreç: More’dan Raleigh’e, Lyly’e, Bacon’a,

Clarendon’a; Sidney’den Shakespeare’e, Milton’a’, ('From More to Raleigh, to

Lyly, to Bacon, and to Clarendon; From Sidney to Shakespeare, to Milton’ -The

Path to the Enlightenment [the Advent of Enlightenment/Classism]', (also includes

references to R. Ascham, T. Nash, Hobbes, R. Hooker, J. Florio etc. ), Batı Kültür ve

Edebiyatlarında Klasizm Kitabı (Classism in Western Literatures and Cultures), pp.

241-264, Ankara University, June-July 2016

- Ege. E.S. ,'Felsefi Bir Yorumlama: Romantik Edebiyatın Özü ve Darwin Öncesi

Romantik Dönem Şair ve Yazarlarını Darwin Sonrası Ütopya/Distopya Yazarı

Olarak Okuyabilmek', ('Reading the Romantics-the pre-Darwinians- as post-

Darwinian Utopians/Dysyopians'), Batı Kültür ve Edebiyatlarında

Romantizm,(Romanticism in Western Literatures and Cultures) , Ankara

University, ss. 363-397, 2014. (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S. , 'İngiltere'de Aydınlanma; İçsel ve Dışsal Sınırların Aşılması`

('Enlightenment in England: Transcending the Limits -Inner and Outer'`), Batı

Kültür ve Edebiyatlarında Aydınlanma, (Enlightenment in Western Cultures and

Literatures), pp. 471-518 (465-512) Ankara University (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S. , ‘Oscar Wilde, the Aesthete – H.G. Wells, the Scientist, and “The

Rediscovery of the Unique”’ in Wilde’s Viles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar

Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Annette M.

Magid, Cambridge Scholars Press, ISBN 13:978-I-4438-4328-7; ISBN: I-4438-4328-

8, 2013

- Ege. E.S., 'Doris Lessing and H.G. Wells, The Time Travelers, "The Historians of

the Future” ', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. ISBN(13): 978-1-4438-2993-

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- Ege. E.S. , ‘Has Anything Changed Since “The Taming of the Shrew ”?’ -Branch

of the European Society for the Study of English and American Studies,

Universitatea “Dunarea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Faculty of

Letters, Shakespeareana 2008, Galati University Press, Romania

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- Ege. E.S. , ‘The Food and the “Food of Growth”; from the Kitchen to the

Laboratory -from the Food Grown in the Garden to the Food Made by the

Scientist’, T.C. Kültür Üniversitesi, Istanbul, March 2008

- Ege. E.S. , ‘Sanat Sanat için ve Fikir Romanı; Benzerlikler ve Farklılıklar' (‘ “Art

for Art’s Sake ” versus “Art for Propaganda”; The Differences and Similarities’,

(In Memory of Akşit Göktürk), University of Istanbul, Istanbul 2007 (Turkish)

-Ege. E.S. ‘18. ve 19 yy. İngiliz Edebiyatında Beden ve Akıl’ (Mind and Body in

the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature'), Akşit Göktürk’ü

Anma, (In Memory of Akşit Göktürk),, T.C. İstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul 2007

- Ege. E.S. ‘Shakespeare as a Universalist –“Unchangefulness" in the Midst of

Change', Branch of the European Society for the Study of English and American

Studies, Universitatea “Dunerea De Jos” Dın Galati (University of Galati), Faculty of

Letters, Shakespeareana 2006, Galati University Press, 2006, Romania

7.3 Peer Reviewed Periodicals (National)

-Ege. E.S., ‘The Acclaimed Outsiders: Joseph Conrad and H.G. Wells', T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. LII 2, 2012,

Ankara, 1-21

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Battle of the Wits: Fabian Society and H.G. Wells and Bernard

Shaw’, University of Ankara , The Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi),

2000, No. 40

- Ege. E.S., ‘Aldous Huxley and his Dilemma’, The Journal of the Faculty of

Languages and History-Geography (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-

Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 2000, No. 40

- ‘Ege. E.S., Robinson Crusoe, Bir İyimserlik ve Kişisel Başarı Öyküsü’ ('Robinson

Crusoe, A Story of Optimism and Individual Success’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı,

Ankara, Spring 1995 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., ‘Edward Bellamy, “The Machine Culture” and the American

Reader’ The Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (T.C.

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 1994-1995, 37

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Path to a Saner World’, The Journal of the Faculty of Languages

and History-Geography, (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya

Fakültesi Dergisi), 1994-1995, 37 Ankara

-Ege. E.S., - ‘G.K. Chesterton, The Superman and the Common Man’, The Journal

of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi,

Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 1994-1995, No 3,

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- Ege. E.S., ‘E.M. Forster, Sanat ve Propaganda’, (‘E.M. Forster, Art, and

Propaganda’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Spring 1994, Ankara (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., ‘Zamyatin, Düzen, ve Mutluluk’ (‘Zamyatin, Order, and

Happiness’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Winter 1994, Ankara (Turkish)

Ege. E.S., - ‘Ondokuzuncu yüzyıl ve fin de siècle Edebiyatı’ (‘Nineteenth

Century; fin de siècle Literature’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Spring 1993, Ankara

(Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., ‘Sosyo-ekonomik Roman –İngiliz, Amerikan’ (‘Socio-economic Novel;

English-American

(Turkish) Literature’), Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Winter 1993, Ankara

- Ege. E.S., ‘Anti-Science, Anti-Technology Attitude, 1870-1900- United States of

America and Britain’, The Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi),

1992, No.2 , Ankara

- Ege. E.S., ‘Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, the Differences’, The Journal of the

Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve

Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi), 1991, No.1 Ankara

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Sections in Books (National)

Ege. E.S., ‘Edebiyat, Çocuklar, ve Toplum’ ('Literature, Children, and Society'),

Cumhuriyetin Sekseninci Kuruluş Yıldönümü Anı Kitabı (Memory Book,The

Eightieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Turkish Republic), T.C. Ankara

Üniversitesi, 2003

7.4 Paper presentations/chairs at national conferences/ symposiums

-Prof. Dr E Sema Ege:

Paper Presentation: "The Impact of Literature -English Literature and American Literature-

on Society, on Social Progress ", Munzur University, November 15, 2019 (Turkish).

-Prof. Dr E Sema Ege: Chair

Panel:"Teaching English as a Foreign Language; Questions/Problems and Suggestions",

Biruni University, March 21, 2019.

-Prof. Dr E Sema Ege, Paper Presentation:

"The Importance of Learning a Foreign Language; 'How' to Use the Language/s". Panel:

"Teaching English as a Foreign Language; Questions/Problems and Suggestions", Biruni

University, March 21, 2019. (Turkish).

- “In Memory of Necla Aytür, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of American Culture and Literature”, Faculty of History – Geography and Literature, Ankara University, April 04,2019

-E. Sema Ege, Panel Organizer: 'Child, Education, and Social Progress in English/American Literatures', ("The child is father of the Man" , William Wordsorth ), 4 Contributors, April 08, 2018, Biruni Üniversitesi (Biruni University)

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-E. Sema Ege, 'Children's Teachings to Adults in English and American Literatures:

Transcending Inner and Outer Limits, Creativity', Child, Education, and Social Progress in

English/American Literatures ("The child is father of the Man" , William Wordsorth ), April

08, 2018, Biruni Üniversitesi (Biruni University)

-E. Sema Ege, Panel Organizer: 'The Relationship Between Man and Science and the Future in English-American Literatures', 4 Presenters, March 12, 2018, Biruni Üniversitesi (Biruni University)

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-E. Sema Ege, 'Science in Literature; Science Created by Man, Man Shaped by Science;

Fundamental Reality: Neither the Sky Nor the Creativity is Limited -How, Where to/till

When', The Relationship Between Man and Science and the Future in English-American

Literatures, March 12, 2018, Biruni Üniversitesi (Biruni University)

- Ege. E.S., Panel Organizer and Speaker. 'Gelecekten Önceki Gelecek:

Geleceği Gelecekten Önce Görmek' (' "The Future" [that comes] Before the Future;

Seeing the "Tomorrow" Before the "Tomorrow" ', Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, Ankara, May 13, 2014 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., Panel Organizer and Speaker. 'İngiliz ve Amerikan Edebiyatlarında

Sömürge Konusu' (Colonization and Expansionism in English and American

Literatures '), Faculty of Languages and History-Geography, Ankara, May 14, 2014

(Turkish)

- Ege. E.S.,Chair at 21st British Novelists Conference: The Bronte Sisters and Their

Work, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University), Faculty of

Education, Ankara, December 2013

- Ege. E.S.,Organizer- Presentation: Prof Dr Sema E Ege, “İstanbul Poems”

(“Istanbul Poems by Sema E Ege ”), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Faculty of

Languages and History-Geography, Ankara, 15 May, 2013 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., Organizer- Presentation: Prof Dr Sema E Ege, “İngiliz Edebiyatı Şiir

Dinletisi” (Poetry Reading -English poems), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Faculty of

Languages and History-Geography, Ankara, 15 May, 2013 (English)

- Ege. E.S., 'Düşlerin ve Gerçeklerin Edebiyatı, Edebiyatın Gerçekleri

Şekillendirmesi –İngiliz / Amerikan Edebiyatlarından Örnekler', (‘The Impact

of Reality on Literature and the Impact of Literature on Reality –English and

American Literatures'), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, 28 February 2013 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., Chair: 20th METU, British Novelists Conference: Salman Rushdie and

His Work, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical University),

Ankara, Turkey December 2012,

- Ege. E.S., ‘Yetmiş Beşinci Yıl Teşekkürü’ (‘An Acknowledgement of Gratitude:

What we Owe to the Teachings at the Department of English Studies and the

Department of American Culture and Literature’), Ankara University, Seventy Fifth

Anniversary of the Foundation of DTCF (Faculty of Literatures and Social

Sciences) April 2011 (Turkish)

- Ege. E.S., 'Edebiyat ve Gerçek' (‘Literature and Truth’) , Erciyes University,

Kayseri, Turkey, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Topluluğu ( IDEAL)( The Society of

English Literature and Language), December 2008 (Turkish)

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- Ege. E.S., ;‘The World Order -One Writer and Four Politicians: H.G. Wells,

Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, W. Churchill, and Stalin’ , University of

Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk, Istanbul,

March 2008,

- Ege. E.S., ; ‘The Challenge of the Understandings of " the Novel": “Art for Art’s

Sake” and “The Novel of Ideas” ’) University of Istanbul, English Literature

Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk, , Istanbul, March 2007

- Ege. E.S. , 'İngiliz Edebiyatında Beyin ve Beden' ('Reason and Body in English

Literature –the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century’), University of

Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memory of Akşit Göktürk; ‘, Istanbul ,

March 2006

- Ege. E.S., Chair, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical

University), British Novelists Conference: James Joyce, Ankara April 2005

- Ege. E.S., Chair, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Middle East Technical

University), British Novelists Conference: Joseph Conrad, , Ankara, December

2004

- Ege. E.S., ‘Literature and Society’University of Ankara, The 80th Anniversary of

the Foundation of the Republic; , 2003

- Ege. E.S., University of Ankara, The SixtySsixth Anniversary of the Foundation of

the Faculty of Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya; ‘Rupert Brooke’ (Translation, Poetry

Reading), 2002

- Ege. E.S., ‘The Concept of Time in Edwardian Literature’, Turco-British

Association, Ankara, October 1997

- Ege. E.S., Feedback Seminar, ‘.H.G. Wells’, British Council, Ankara, December

1993

Some of the National Conferences/Symposiums attended without a paper

presentation

-University of Istanbul, English Literature Symposium, In Memmory of Akşit

Göktürk; March 2009

-Middle East Technical University, Ankara, British Novelists Conference, Doris

Lessing, March 1996

-British Council-All Turkey English Literature Conferences (Ankara, Istanbul,

Eskisehir etc.) (1987, 1989, 1990, 1992)

7.5 Other publications, BOOKS

-Ege. E.Sema., Memoir Book, Compiled and Introduced, with illustrations and

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extracts from Turkish/American/English Literatures: 75. Yıl, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya

Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı Anı Kitabı: Geçmişten Geleceğe,

Süreçte Bir Gün -8 Nisan 2011 (A Day in the Progress; From the Past to the Future,

The Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Faculty of Languages and

History-Geography and the Department of English Language and Literature) ,

Ankara Üniversitesi, December 2014 (Turkish) (391 pages)

-Ege. E.Sema., .Four Works of Horror in English Literature (D. Defoe, 'The Ghost

of Dorothy Dingley;, M. Shelley, Frankestein; H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man; G.

Orwell, Animal Farm), 1995 (Turkish)

-Ege. E.Sema., Science, Scepticism, and an Ironic Myth, 2001 (English)

-Ege. E.Sema.,.Dreaming of Istanbul in Scotland (Poetry Book, 36 Poems),

Istanbul, 2004 (Turkish)

-Ege. E.Sema., The Colours of Istanbul, (Poetry Book, 100 Poems) Istanbul, 2005

(Turkish)

-Ege. E.Sema.,.Wanderings in the Land of the ‘Thistle’, Scotland (25 Poems)

(English, Unpublished)

Translations

-Ege. E.Sema.,. (with an introduction) Helen With the High Hand, Arnold Bennett,

T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı (Turkish Ministry of Culture Publications), Ankara, 2000

-Ege. E.Sema.,.Stories from English Literature (İngiliz Edebiyatı Öykü Seçkisi)

(with introductory notes on each writer: Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, S. Le Fanu,

Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, M.R. James J. Conrad, H.G. Wells,

Doris Lessing) T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı (Turkish Ministry of

Culture Publications), Ankara, 2001

-Ege. E.Sema., Translations from Contemporary World Literatures, ed. Gürsel

Aytaç (Prof.). Extracts from Virginia Woolf ('Professions for Women-' ‘Angel in the

House’), Malcolm Bradbury (Eating People is Wrong), and Doris Lessing (The

Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ; also from Rupert Brooke's poems, T.C.

Kültür Bakanlığı (Turkish Ministry of Culture Publications), Ankara, 1999

-Ege. E.Sema., Selections from World Travel Literatures, ed. Gürsel Aytaç

(Prof.), [Lord Byron (Travels), J.M. Synge (Aran Islands), H.G. Wells

(Autobiography)], Gündoğan Edebiyatı, Ankara, 1994

-Ege. E.S., ‘Rupert Brooke, “Gezi” ’, in Memoir Book: The Sixty Sixth

Anniversary of the Foundation of the Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography (Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Altmış Altıncı Kuruluş Yıldönümü

Anı Kitabı), T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, 2002

8. Projects

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-Television Programme TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) (State Television) Quotations from Sema Ege’s Poems were included/read in the documentary called

“Knowing Çanakkale (Dardanelles -Hellenspont)” , 24 /04/ 2005: 22.30) (the

Programme was also repeated, 4/2006)

-Radio Programme

TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) (State Radio)

Educational Programs Division,

Subject: Island ‘In the midst of the Sea’ (‘Denizin Ortasında’), 2 programmes, June

2012

http://www.trt.net.tr/ondemand/podcastgalaeri.aspx?GaleriResimKodu=d2945018-

9211-4570-9f19-a5f75ccbd47c8

Others

-A Translation of Anıtkabir Memorial Book of the Years 1954-1965 (One hundred

and forty one (141) tributes), Submitted to the Dean's Office, Vice Dean, Faculty of

Languages and History and Geography (as a part of a project), Ankara University, November, 2000.

-‘Another Spring’, Osman Çeviksoy, Translation from Turkish to English for The

Turkish Ministry of Culture (as a part of a project). Submitted to the Dean's Office,

Vice Dean, Faculty of Languages and History and Geography, Ankara University,

August, 1996.

-‘A Long Time Ago’ (‘Long Ago’), Sevinç Coşkun, Translation from Turkish to

English for The Turkish Ministry of Culture (as a part of a project) Submitted to the

Dean's Office, Vice Dean, Faculty of Languages and History and Geography, Ankara

University, August, 1996.

9. Administrative Duties (Universities)

- Member: Ankara University-Foreign Academic Relations Board (The Rector’s

Office) (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü Dış İlişkiler Komisyonu Üyeliği)

(December 2008- June 2012 )

-Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty ofLiteratures and History and Geography (Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi DTCF),

Ankara University, (December 2006- April 2008)

- Member: The Administrative Board of the Faculty of Literatures and History and Geography, (DTCF) , Ankara University (June 1998- February 2001)

-Member: The Advisory Board for Scholarships for the Faculty Academics to

conduct research abroad), Faculty of Literatures and History and Geography,

(DTCF), Ankara University (June 1998- October 2003)

Administrative Duties at Other Faculties (while also teaching at the Faculty of

Literatures and History and Geography (DTCF):

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-Head of the English Language Teaching Department, Foreign Languages Teaching

Department, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Ankara University (July 2003-

May 2006)

…..

Administrative Duties at Other Universities

-Member: The University Administrative Board, Atılım University, Ankara

(December 1997)

-Member: The University Administrative Board, Biruni University, Ankara (from

November 2017 - )

Academic Duties

- Member: Advisory Board, The Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, DTCF, Ankara University (June 1998- February 2001)

- Member: Editorial Board, The Journal of The Faculty of Literatures and History-

Geography, DTCF, University of Ankara (2001- November 2004)

-Advisory Board: “2nd International Conference –Literature and Science”, the

Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of The Faculty of Languages and

History-Geography ( DTCF), Ankara University (April-November 2011)

-Advisory Board: Programme for the Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation

of The Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF), Ankara

University (May 2010-January 2011)

- Organizer and Jury Member. The Student Competition to Celebrate the Seventy

Fifth Anniversary of the Foundation of The Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography ( Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi): “The Sense of Belonging to

DTCF” Ankara University (September 2011-January 2012)

Editorial/Advisory Board - Other National University Journals

- Adıyaman University, The Journal of Social Sciences

- Afyon Kocatepe University , The Journal of Social Sciences

- Anadolu University, The Journal of Social Sciences, Eskişehir

- Ankara University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Journal

- Atatürk University, The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences, Erzurum

- Cumhuriyet University , The Journal of Social Sciences, Sivas

- Doğuş University, Journal of British Literature and Culture, İstanbul

-Eskişehir, Osmangazi University, The Journal of Social Sciences

- Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters Journal; Journal of British Literature and

Culture, Ankara

-Littera, The Journal of Western Languages and Literatures, University of

Hacettepe, Ankara

- Mersin University, The Journal of Language and Literature

- Pamukkale University, The Journal of Social Sciences, Denizli

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- Selçuk University, The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences, Konya

Other Academic Responsibilities

-Jury Member: External Examiner: Academic Promotions, Assoc. Prof., Prof.

(English Literature, American Literature, Comparative Studies), Ankara University

and other national universities)

-Jury Member: English Language Exams (Assis. Prof. ) at various Faculties and

Departments of Ankara University (approximately 100 )

-Jury Member Examiners Board: the admission of Postgraduate (MA, PhD) students

Department of English, Ankara University

-External Examiner at vivas MA, PhD (The Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, The Faculty of Education Ankara University, and also at other national

universities: Middle East Technical University, Hacettepe Üniversity )

-The recruitment of English readers for The Preparatory School, Ankara University.

Duties at various Ministries / Governmental Departments

Academic:

-Member of The Advisory Board, The Department of World Literatures

Translations, The Turkish Ministry of Culture, Ankara (January 2001-

December 2002) (T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, Yayımlar Dairesi Başkanlığı, Çeviri

Eserler Yayın Danışma Kurulu Üyeliği) (foreign and Turkish writers. Some of the national writers whose works were taken into consideration for translation: M.İ. Çığ, İ. Bozdağ, T. Özakman, R. Bilginer, A.T. Oflazoğlu, A. Nesin, N.F. Kısakürek

Duties at Other Ministries/Governmental Departments

Preparing English language exams for staff recruitments -particularly for the

Foreign Affairs Departments of the Ministries.

-The Institute of Statistics (the Office of the Prime Minister’s), October, 2001

-Foreign Affairs Staff, (The Office of the Prime Minister’s) (T.C. Başbakanlık

Uzman Yardımcılığı), June 2003

-Foreign Affairs, Customs Department (The Office of the Prime Minister’s) (T.C.

Başbakanlık Gümrük Müsteşarlığı, AB ve Dış İlişkiler Müdürlüğü), March 2004

-Ministry of Health, July 2007, December 2009, February 2010

-Ministry of Work and Social Security, November 2004, February 2008

-The Office of Treasury and Customs (The Office of the Prime Minister’s) (T.C.

Hazine ve Dış Ticaret, Gümrük Müsteşarlığı), February 2008

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-Ministry of Transportation, March 2009

etc.

Also

-Academic Jury at legislative disputes concerning academic gradings/promotions

or/and graduate/postgraduate exams at national universities (1993-2016)

-Jury Member at Turkish Air Foundation exams for scholarships (Türk Hava

Kurumu yurt dışı burslu görevlendirme sınavı)

Other

Advisor/Supervisor

-Weekly meetings with Japan's Ambassador to Turkey, Mrs Atsumo Toyama

(December 1997 - April 1998)

Academic Affiliations

-Biruni University, Dept. of Foreign Languages Education, English Language

Education Program, Faculty of Education (2017 - )

-University of Ankara, Department of English, Faculty of Languages and History-

Geography, (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi), 30 May

1989 - 29 September 2016

-English Coordinator, Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus, Nicosia,

1987-1988

Part time teaching (while also teaching at Ankara University

-Middle East Technical University (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi); Faculty of

Education, Department of English Language Teaching, Ankara, 2002

-University of Atılım, Department of English, Ankara, 1997-1999.

-Visiting Professor - SPAIN ERASMUS Program

University of Basque Country -Universidad Del Pais Vasco- November 13-

20, 2011

Courses Taught:

-“Literature of the Second Language (British and Americasn Literature);

-“US Literary Texts”;

-“History and Culture in the English Speaking countries” (US History and Culture)

10. Memberships -Academic Institutions:

-Turco-British Association, Ankara (1988-1993) -The H.G. Wells Society, London (1989-1995) -‘Symbiosis’, Anglo-American Literary Relations (England-USA) (1997, 1999,

2005)

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- IDEA- Istanbul (2008) -The Society for Utopian Studies (1999, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 -) -The Utopian Studies Society (2008, 2009)

- Northeast Modern Languages Association (2010,2011,2012-2013 -2015 )

-The University of Strathclyde (Alumni), Scotland

11. Honors / Prizes:

Honors (some )

- Erciyes University, English Language and Literature Society (T.C. Erciyes

Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Topluluğu-(IDEAL), Kayseri, December

2008

-Contributions to the Academic / Scholarly Activities to Celebrate the Foundation of

the Seventy Fifth Anniversary of The Faculty of Languages and History-Georgraphy,

Ankara University) (DTCF'nin 75 Yıl Kuruluşu Etkinliklerine Katkılar) , 2011

-Ankara University Honor and Gratitude, (T.C. Ankara Üniversitesi Hizmet Onur

Belgesi) December 27, 2016

12. Fill in the following chart for the courses given in the last two years.

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Academic

Year

Term Course Weekly Hour

Number of

Students

2019-2020

Literature -English/American Literature- I, II:

2 51

2019-2020

Reading Skills I, II 2 11

2018-2019 1-2 Reading, Textual Analysis (English/ American Text )

2 15

2016

2016

Spring

2016

Spring

-BA Nineteenth century English Literature, Victorian Period: (prose and poetry.) February-June 2016

-BA

English Novel, 1950 and

Beyond ı

February-June 2016

-Graduation Dissertations

Comparative Studies,

English/American

June 2016

-MA/PhD February-June 2016

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65

10

‘Fantastic Ideas/Elements (English, American) (prose, ,poetry

Travel Literature

(English American)

(prose, ,poetry)

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Detective Fiction,

Mystery/Horror Tales

(English, American)

February-June 2016

Some of the other courses taught since 1990

Undergraduate

-Translation

-A Survey of American Literature (from the Colonial Times to 1950s) (prose and

poetry) -Selections from English Literature (from 10th c. to the present) (prose and poetry) -Textual Analysis (American/English short story) -Eighteenth century English Novel

-Edwardian Novel

-Modernist Novel (English-American)

-Nineteenth century English Literature (prose and poetry)

(Romantic poets [First and Second Generation], Victorian Period: prose and poetry.)

-1900-1950 English Novel

-English Novel, 1950 and Beyond

Postgraduate Courses MA / PhD

(A Selected List of the writers read)

In all these courses, apart from the writers studied, the possibilty of reading several

other English/American literary texts (prose/poetry) as somehow containig

features/aspects/characteristics/implications of the genre is also considered.

-Utopian Literature (including American-English)

-Campus Novel and Critical Approaches:

-Seventeenth century English Poetry

-Metaphysical Poetry

-Feminist Theories (American-English)

-Modernism and Cyberpunk (English/American)

-Anglo-American Textual Relations, (Symbiosis)

-English/American Woman Writers

-Social Changes, Reflections in Literature (English/American)

-Transnationalism

-English - American Modernist Fiction

-Fantastic Ideas/Elements in American and English Literary Texts (prose/poetry)

-Travel Literature (English/American)

-Detective Fiction, Mystery/Horror Tales (English/American)

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MA / PhD Utopian Literature (American-English): A range of writers including Plato, Campanella, T. More, Bacon, E. Bellamy, W.D.

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Howells, Butler, W. Morris, J. London, E. Zamyatin, A. Huxley, G. Orwell, D.

Lessing, F. S. Collins . K. Ishiguro etc. .

Campus Novel and Critical Approaches:

A range of writers including E. Waugh, K. Amis, M. Bradbury, D. Lodge, D. Storey,

Zadie Smith etc. .

Seventeenth Century English Poetry:

New Science, Bacon etc. A reading of historical background\ and several well

known as well as minor poets.

Metaphysical Poetry:

A range of poets including Donne, A. Marvell, Waughan, G. Herbert etc. .

Feminist Theories: Early English Woman Writers, early feministic approaches in texts by writers like Defoe,Women's Suffrage, concept of 'the New Woman' in Britain/USA, etc., H.G.

Wells;Feminist Theories, J. Kristeva, Irigray, Cixo etc. .

Modernism and Cyberpunk (English/American): Several writers including

Lowry, Gibson etc. .

Anglo-American Textual Relations:Symbiosis From the Colonial Period to 1950s: A range of writers including Bryant, Byrd, P. Frenau, B. Franklin (Royal Society), Dickens, Twain, Howells, Whitman, O. Wilde

etc. .

English American Woman Writers:

A Range of writers including M. Edgeworth, S. Fielding, J. Austen, Rose Tremain,

K. Mansfield, E. Gaskell, V. Woolf, K. A. Porter, S. Plath, A. Sexton, C. Boylan, E.

Wharton, E.J. Howard, A. Desai.

Social Changes, Reflections in Literature (English/American): Enlightenment, Utopian Socialism, Darwinism, Marxism, Capitalism, Social Darwinism etc. and their impact on/reflections in literary texts

Transnationalism: A range of writers including Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, A. Behn, Defoe, Macaulay, Darwin, Kinglake, Doughty, C. Kingsley, Kipling, H.G. Wells, Forster,

Conrad, G. Greene , M. Bradbury, D. Lessing, S. Rushdie, H. Kureishi, etc; early

Colonial texts, Hemingway etc.; and a selection of 17th, 18th, and 19th century

poetry.

English - American Modernist Fiction:

A range of writers including S. Crane, H. James, Faulkner, S. Fitzgerald, Steinbeck,

Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf etc. .

Fantastic Ideas/Elements in American and English Literary Texts (prose/poetry):

A range of writers including Shakeapeare, Swift, W. Scott, Bacon, M. Shelley,

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Stevenson, O. Wilde, H.G. Wells, W. Irving, Melville, Poe, A. Bierce, N.

Hawthorne, B. Stoker, LeFanu, G. Macdonald, L. Carroll, J.M. Barrie etc. .

Travel Literature (English/American):

A wide range of writers including R. Hakluyt, W. Raleigh, A. Behn, Byron, Darwin,

Kinglake, Ruskin, Stevenson, Melville, Twain, Conrad, Dos Passos, Hemingway etc.

Detective Fiction, Mystery/Horror Tales (English/American):

A range of writers including A. Doyle, A. Christie, P.D. James; Poe, W. Collins, B.

Stoker et ..

Sema Ege: Teaching Philosophy

Intensive Research, Transcending Inner and Outer Limits/Limitations;

Sharing the findings with others, Modesty, Objectivity.

True/Humanly Progress.

The purpose is to make the students enter the "life after the university" with the

knowledge, the skill, and the experience essential for success, that is, as people

capable of making sound contributions to human progress.

Language:

The purpose, through the study of texts in English, is

to enable the students to develop a greater understanding of language and its effects,

of the conventions of English usage, and of diverse modes of expression -and,

thereby, make them capable of conveying their knowledge of literature and

articulating their own ideas in an effective/impressive way. That is, make them

capable of not only exact thinking but also capable of exactness of expression.

Literature:

To enable the students to have a sound knowledge of English/American Literature,

hence an idea about the history of these cultures as literature, in a way, is the

product and the reflection and to some extent the "arbiter", "the shaper" of (in a

word, the epitome of) historical developments.

Life: The purpose,

through the study of literary texts -that is, the observations, insights, comments,

criticisms, forebodings, warnings, aspirations, dreams, visions of creative and

innovating men and women, through their paradoxical or relatively straightforward

approaches to man and his place in society and/or in the universe, is

-to enable the students to have a greater understanding of human nature, of human

motivations and values,

-to enable the students to have a wider, clearer, sounder view of other peoples'

motivations, ways/modes of thinking and/or aspirations -hence help to remove the

possible causes of gaps and separations -thereby leading to much smoother relations

between peoples with different cultural, social, political, and economic histories,

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-to make the students perceive the interrelatedness of various disciplines,

-to awaken the students to very essence of life, that is, the uniqueness of things, that

no two things are alike, but equally, and paradoxically, the interrelatedness of facts,

and also to what J. Donne put as: 'no man is an island'.

-to make the students realize that things that may appear as opposites can be

complementary,

-to furnish the students with the ability to look at things from diverse perspectives,

-to make them have a full grasp of the importance of creative thinking, of creativity

-that is, the importance/essential goodness of creating, in A. Marvell's words, 'far

other worlds and seas', or of what W. Blake put as: 'what is the life of man, but Art

and Science'; to make them realise that for man with infinite potentialities of

creativity not even "the sky is the limit"

Thus the Ultimate Goal is

- to enable the students to discover and enlarge their mental potentialities/

proclivities, to broaden their minds,

-to furnish the students with the progressive reasoning power, the ability of

establishing evidence for why something is so,

-to make the students realise that not only knowledge but a critical and inquiring

mental habit, the flexibility of mind as opposed to rigidity (the rigid way of

thinking) is the sole prerequisite of true/humanly progress.