Assoc. Prof. Gül Kurtuluş
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-6736EDUCATION
Ph.D. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, English Language and Literature, 1997 Dissertation: The Carnivalesque in Ben Jonson’s Three City Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Primary Area: English Renaissance Literature Specialization: Sixteenth Century English Drama
M.A. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, English Language and Literature, 1992 Dissertation: A Kaleidoscope of Harold Pinter’s Plays.
B.A. Hacettepe University, Ankara,Turkey, English Language and Literature, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
First Monograph published by Peter Lang, January 2020
Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s
ISBN: 978-3-631-80339-4 DOI: 10.3726/b16432
Second Monograph published by Peter Lang, October 2021
Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson’s Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair
ISBN: 978-3-631-85247-7 DOI: 10.3726/b18949
Third Monograph published by Routledge, July 2024
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women
ISBN: 978-1-03-261219-5 DOI: 10.4324/9781003462606
Book Chapters
“Aphra Behn’s Sisters: The (Re)Appearance of Women Playwrights in Contemporary Drama,” IDEA: Studies in English, ed. by Evrim Doğan Adanur, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 389-408.
ISBN: 1-4438-2993-5
“Letters to Queen Elizabeth: Anglo-Turkish Relations in Sultan Murad III’s Reign,” Studies in English: Proceedings from the 6th International IDEA Conference, ed. by Patrick Hart, İstanbul: Kültür University, 2012, 215-229.
ISBN: 978-605-4233-92-2
“Changes in Social and Political Climate in 1620s: From Tudor Supremacy to the Jacobean Polity in Women Beware Women,” BAKEA: History in Western Literature, ed. by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu, Turkey: Gaziantep University, 2014, 257-270.
ISBN: 978-605-4938-36-0
“Political and Ethical Concerns in David Greig’s Dunsinane and John McGrath’s The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil,” Chapter Fourteen. English Studies: New Perspectives, ed. by Mehmet Ali Çelikel and Baysar Tanıyan, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 124-45.
ISBN: 1-4438-7727-1
“Acting does not Always Come off on Stage: Is Henry V a Patriotic Hero or a War Criminal?” B/Orders Unbound: Transgressing the Limit in Arts and Humanities, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, eds. Şule Okuroğlu Özün and Mustafa Kırca, Isparta: Süleyman Demirel University Basımevi, 2016, 79-91.
ISBN: 978-9944-452-90-8
“Memory, Gender and Innovation in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine: The Brechtian Legacy in the Postmodern Theatre,” New Readings in British Drama: From the Post- War Period to the Contemporary Era, eds. Mesut Günenç and Enes Kavak, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021, 31-47.
ISBN: 978-3-631-86022-9
“Nature and Animal Imagery in Shakespeare’s Richard III,” 14th International IDEA Conference Studies in English Book of Abstracts and Proceedings, eds. Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Nazan Yıldız, Muzaffer Zafer Ayar, Nilgün Müftüoğlu, Tuncer Aydemir, Trabzon: Karadeniz Teknik University, 2021, 126-135.
ISBN: 978-605-81907-1-9
Journal Articles
“Autobiographical Truth Reflecting the Social Truth of Male and Female Subjectivity in Charles Dickens’s No Thoroughfare,” Hacettepe University, Journal of Faculty of Letters, Volume 30, Number 2, 2013, 117-128. ISSN: 1301-5737
“Patriotism, Morality, and the Spirit of Macbeth’s Ambition in Dunsinane,” International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, Volume 7, Number 2, 2014, 57-85. ISSN: 2046-5602
“Brian Friel’s Ireland: A Translated Realm in Translations,” LITTERA Edebiyat Yazıları Journal for the Study Research of World Literatures Volume 35, 2015, 81- 92. ISBN: 978-605-4938-90-02
“Ecology, Love and Relationships in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella,” Journal of Literature and Art Studies Volume 5, Number 9, 2015, 692-705.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2015.09.002
“Carnival, Libertinism, Sexuality, and the Representations of the Restored King in Aphra Behn’s The Rover,” İnönü University International Journal of Social Sciences Volume 4, Number 2, 2015, 61-74.
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/466365
“Multidimensional and Ambidextrous Shakespeare” Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 48, Number 1, 2017, 131-136. ISSN: 0361-0160
“Updating Shakespeare: Reflections on the Possibilities of Reading and Teaching Shakespeare Today” Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 50, Number 1, 2019, 307-313. ISSN: 0361-0160
“A Divine Cause for Abandoning Reason in Shakespeare’s King Lear” Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 18 (Special Issue), 2019, 150-158. DOI: http://doi.org/10.21547/jss.595324
“Can You See Shakespeare Now?” Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume 51, Number 1, 2020, 193-198. ISSN: 0361-0160
“Translating Shakespeare’s As You Like It to Modern English: Challenges and Rewards” International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Volume 8, Number 1, March 2021, 16-24.
DOI: doi:10.30845/ijll.v8n1p3
https://ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_8_No_1_March_2021/3.pdf
“Jacobean Morality and Moral Performativity in Volpone and Women Beware Women” IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, April 2021, 20-34.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2262814
“Tom Stoppard’ın Rosencrantz ve Guildenstern Öldüler Adlı Eserinde Zaman, Hafıza ve Kimlik Sorunsalı” Gaziantep University, Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 20, Number 3, 2021, 1270-1282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.867784
“Dehumanization in Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Plays” Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies, Volume 2, Number 1, September 2021, 35-56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2021171852
“Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Hybridity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, October 2021, 101-120.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2262931
“Criticism of Phallocentric Authority in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale,” Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies, Volume 4, Number 1, July 2023, 1-18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2023.90
“Rough Seas and Blast of Wind in Shakespeare’s Othello,” Ukrainian Journal of Renaissance Studies, УДК 82.111 Шек: «15/20» November 2023, 41-59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2225-479X-2023-36-37-3
Book Reviews
“The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama,” ed. by Marcia Kupfer, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 41/1 (2010), 281-282.
“Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe,” by Timothy Hampton, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 42/1 (2011), 192-194.
“Leila’s Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy,” by Laura Gianetti, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 42/4 (2011), 1165-1166.
“Rabelais’s Radical Farce: Late Medieval Comic Theatre and Its Function in Rabelais,” by E. Bruce Hayes, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 43/2 (2012), 484-485.
“Shakespeare and Biography,” by David Bevington, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 43/3 (2012), 862-864.
“Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide,” ed. by Andrew Hiscock, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 43/4 (2012), 1184-1186.
“Shakespeare and the Law,” ed. by Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 45/1 (2014), 261-262.
“Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature,” ed. by David Coleman, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 45/2 (2014), 549- 551.
“A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I,” by Rayne Allinson, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 46/1 (2015), 234-235.
“Faith in Shakespeare,” by Richard C. McCoy, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 46/4 (2015), 1149-1151.
“Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England,” by Alison V. Scott, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 47/1 (2016), 137-138.
“Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England,” by J.K. Barret, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 48/3 (2017), 775-777.
“At Work in the Early Modern English Theatre: Valuing Labor,” by Matthew Kendrick, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 48/3 (2017), 849-850.
“Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s History Plays,” ed. by Laurie Ellinghausen, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 49/1 (2018), 251-253.
“Shakespeare’s Sonnets Re-visited,” by Jane Fairhead, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 50/3 (2019), 932-934.
“Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play,” ed. by Lynn Enterline, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 51/3 (2020), 804-806.
“How and Why, We Teach Shakespeare: College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students,” ed. by Sidney Homan, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 52/2 (2021), 510-513.
“England in the Age of Shakespeare,” by Jeremy Black, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 52/4 (2021), 1064-1067.
“Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama,” ed. by A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 53/1 (2022), 252-255.
“The Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson,” by Ross Kenneth, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 53/4 (2022), 1155-1157.
“Stages of Loss: The English Comedians and Their Reception,” by George Oppitz- Trotman, Renaissance Quarterly, 71/1 (2022), 352-354.
Academic Presentations
Papers Presented
“Modernist (Un)Certainty in Pinter’s The Birthday Party: Threat of Violence and Its Impact,” 12th International Cultural Studies Symposium: Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism organized by Ege University (CSS), 2009, İzmir, Turkey.
“A New Approach to Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella: Imagery, Symbols and Themes in Accordance with Ecology, Love and Relationships,” The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizions jointly organized by Hacettepe University and Ankara University, 2009, Antalya, Turkey.
“Aphra Behn’s Sisters: (Re)Appearance of Women Playwrights in Contemporary Drama,” Fifth International IDEA Conference, organized by Atılım University, 2010, Ankara, Turkey.
“Letters to Queen Elizabeth: Anglo-Turkish Relations in Sultan Murad III’s Reign,” Sixth International IDEA Conference, organized by İstanbul Kültür University, 2011, İstanbul, Turkey.
“Variables in Curriculum Development of English Literature Departments at Turkish Private Universities: A Case Study,” Fourth World Conference on the Educational Sciences, WCES 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
“The Concept of Body, Sociopathy and the Presentation of a Topsy-Turvy World in Ben Jonson’s Plays,” ESSE IDEA 2012, organized by Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s ‘Storyteller:’ Fusion of Globalism, Regionalism and Ecocriticism,” From Cover to Cover: Reading Readers, 50th Anniversary Conference Of the Department of American Culture and Literature, organized by Hacettepe University, 2012, Ankara, Turkey.
“Autobiographical Truth Reflecting the Social Truth of Male and Female Subjectivity in No Thoroughfare,” Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages and Deaths, a conference organized jointly by Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on the Bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s Birthday, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Political and Ethical Concerns in David Greig’s Dunsinane and John McGrath’s The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black Black Oil,” Seventh International IDEA Conference, organized by Pamukkale University, 2013, Denizli, Turkey.
“Changes in Social and Political Climate in 1620s: From Tudor Supremacy to the Jacobean Polity in Women Beware Women,” International BAKEA Western Cultures and Literatures Studies, organized by Gaziantep University, 2013, Gaziantep, Turkey.
“The Making of Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy through Correspondence,” Talk organized by Hacettepe University, Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies, Mehmet Akif Ersoy Hall, March 2013, Beytepe, Ankara.
“Adroit Negotiators: Letter Writing in the Sixteenth Century Diplomacy,” Annual Sixteenth Century Society Conference, SCSC 2013, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Rhetoric of the Unspeakable in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and David Greig’s Dunsinane,” 8th International IDEA Studies in English Conference, organized by Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 2014, Muğla, Turkey.
“Patriotism, Morality and the Spirit of Macbeth’s Ambition in Dunsinane,” 12th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), P.J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia 29 August 2014 – 2 September 2014.
“Lust, Ambition, and the Commodification of Women in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 16-19 October 2014.
“Carnival, Libertinism, Sexuality, and the Representation of the Restored King in Aphra Behn’s The Rover,” 9th International IDEA Studies in English Conference, organized by İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey, 15-17 April 2015.
“Acting does not Always Come off on Stage: Is Henry V a Patriotic Hero or a War Criminal?” 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Culture – B/Orders Unbound: Transgressing the Limit in Arts and Humanities, organized by Isparta Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey, 7-8 May 2015.
“Humor and Refinement: Redemptive Role of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good.” Fifth International BAKEA Western Cultures and Literatures Studies 2015, organized by Pamukkale University, Denizli, 5-7 October 2015.
“Resolving to Provide Oneself to Madness in Ben Jonson’s City-Comedies: The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 22-25 October 2015.
“Women and Diplomacy: The Official Correspondence of Safiye Sultan and Queen Elizabeth,” organized by The Renaissance Society of America, Boston, USA, 31 March-2 April 2016.
“T.S. Eliot’s Spiritual Journey in Designing The Cocktail Party as a Drama of Conversion,” 10th International IDEA Studies in English Conference, organized by Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 14-16 April 2016.
“Transnational Perspectives, Multiculturalism and Environmental Concerns in Louise Erdrich’s ‘Fleur’,” Third International English Studies Conference on Multiculturalism, Heritage, and English Studies, organized by Karabük University, Safranbolu, Turkey, 5-6 May 2016.
“Politics and Poetics of a Labor Party Leader in David Hare’s The Absence of War,” The 11th International IDEA Conference, organized by Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, 12-14 April 2017.
“Underwater World in Othello,” 12th International IDEA Conference, organized by Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey, 18-20 April 2018.
“A Divine Cause for Abandoning Reason in Shakespeare’s King Lear,” 13th International IDEA Conference, organized by Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey, 24-26 April 2019.
“Exposing the Socio-Political Biases in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” International Conference on Culture, Society and Literature: Migration and Changing Identities, organized by Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey, 7-8 November 2019.
“Nature and Animal Imagery in Shakespeare’s Richard III,” 14th International IDEA Conference, organized by Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, 6-8 October 2021.
“Destruction as a Form of Creation and Barthesian Myths in Edward Bond’s The Chair Trilogy,” 15th International IDEA Conference, organized by Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey, 11-13 May 2022.
“Phallocentric Language and Desire in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale,” organized by Osmaniye Korkut Ata University and Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Network (online), 18-19 October 2022.
“Speaking of Change: Imminent Reconstruction and Disassembled Audience in Shakespeare’s Plays,” organized by European Shakespeare Research Association, Biennial Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 6-9 July 2023.
“Impact of Shakespeare’s Adaptations and Actresses on Restoration Stage,” 1st UTAD Conference “Origins” organized by Turkish Society for Theatre Research and TED University, Ankara, Türkiye, 14-16 September 2023.
“Unveiling Human Anger as a Response to Decline in John Osborne’s The Entertainer,” 8th BAKEA International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium, organized by Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 1-3 November 2023.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Currently, I am working on my fourth book project.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Early modern and modern drama in English Literature Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries Short fiction in Anglophone literatures Translation of literary texts from English to Turkish and from Turkish to English
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic, Administrative Positions, and Departmental Service
22 March 2024: Associate Professor position awarded by YÖK (Council of Higher Education, Türkiye)
30 January 2024: Retired from English Language and Literature Department of Bilkent University.
2019 – 2024: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Lecturer
1991 – 2019: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Instructor
2021 – 2022: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Curriculum Committee
2022, Spring: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Erasmus Coordinator
2016 – present: Bilkent University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Advisor of the Disabled Students
2013 – 2020: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, ELIT 290 Summer Training Coordinator
2012 – 2013: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Acting Chair
2008 – 2015: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Assistant Chair
2007 – 2014: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Erasmus Coordinator
ACADEMIC EDITORIAL SERVICE
Reviewer, Journal of Social Sciences, Gaziantep University
ISSN: 1303-0094 e-ISSN: 2149-5459
Reviewer, Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
e-ISSN: 2667-4262
Reviewer, IDEAS, İngilizce Edebi Araştırmalar Dergisi
e-ISSN: 2757-9549
Reviewer, Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi
e-ISSN: 2636-8641
Reviewer, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
ISSN: 1301-5737 e-ISSN: 2630-5976
Reviewer, HUMANITAS, Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
ISSN: 2147-088X e-ISSN: 2645-8837
Reviewer, Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN: 1309-6761 e-ISSN: 3062-0112
Reviewer, İnönü Üniversitesi Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
ISSN: 2147-0936 e-ISSN: 2147-0936
COURSES TAUGHT
ELIT 418 English Drama During the Restoration
ELIT 422 Female Voices: Modern British Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century
ELIT 427 Plays and Conventions of the Theatre of the Absurd
ELIT 437 Plays and Playwrights of the English Renaissance Excluding Shakespeare ELIT 453 Trends in British Drama since 1960s
ELIT 443 British Drama
ELIT 442 British Drama II (from 1950s to present)
ELIT 441 British Drama I (from the Restoration to 1950s) ELIT 393 Essentials of Short Fiction
ELIT 388 Plays and London since 1850 ELIT 359 Shakespeare
ELIT 356 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature ELIT 355 Renaissance Literature
ELIT 352 Shakespeare II (tragedies, histories, roman plays) ELIT 351 Shakespeare I (comedies, romances, problem plays)
ELIT 281 The Short Story
ELIT 270 Poetry
ELIT 246 Drama and Performance ELIT 242 Introduction to Drama
ELIT 164 Concepts in Literary Studies
ELIT 152 Research and Writing Techniques
ELIT 139 Appreciation of Literature
ELIT 130 Selections from English Literature ELIT 112 Translation II (Turkish-English) ELIT 109 Translation I (English-Turkish)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
RSA – Renaissance Society of America SCS – Sixteenth Century Society
BSA – British Shakespeare Association
IDEA – English Language and Literature Research Association of Turkey ASAT – American Studies Association of Turkey
ESRA – European Shakespeare Research Association
TSTR – Turkish Theatre Research / UTAD – Uluslararası Tiyatro Araştırmaları Derneği