Bilkent University

Academic Staff of Faculty of Humanities and Letters

Nefise Abalı Instructor	M.A., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2011.
Arash Abazari Assistant Professor
Fatma Aksoy Üçkardeşler Instructor
Seren Altınkan Instructor
Istvan Albert Aranyosi Interim Associate Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, Central European University, 2005. Metaphysics, philosophy of mind.
Safiye Bal Kuzucu Instructor	M.A., Conference Interpreting, Bilkent University, 2017.
Berker Basmacı Assistant Professor
Emma Louise Baysal Associate Professor	Ph.D., Archaeology, University of Liverpool, 2010. The Neolithic, identities in archaeology, personal ornaments as a means of self-expression, the history of archaeological practice, archaeological theory, archaeology education.
Yehezkel S. Berkovski Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, Oxford University, 2005. Logical positivism, philosophy of logic, Kant, possible worlds, philosophy of science, philosophy of language.
Ceylan Bevington Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Department of English and Creative Writing, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University, 2017. Victorian literature, women's writing.
Ivana Bicak Assistant Professor	Ph.D., in English, University of Leeds, 2015. Early modern English literature.
Rachel Bruzzone Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Classics, University of Virginia, 2012. Ancient Greek Literature.
Aurelia Cojocaru Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2022.
William Norman Coker Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2010. German literature and intellectual history.
Costantino Costantini Instructor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Emory University, 2001. Classics, French and Italian literature, theory.
Ayşe Çelikkol Associate Professor	Ph.D., Rice University, 2006. 19th-century British and American literature, liberalism, history of globalization.
Apala Das Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2024. Specializations-20th-century Transatlantic and Global Anglophone Literatures, Postcolonial Theory, Post-secularism Studies, South Asian Literatures.
Alican Demir Instructor	M.A., French as a Foreign Language, Stendhal-Grenoble 3 University, 2003.
Duygu Duman Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Community Interpreting, Yildiz Technical University, 2018.
Cahide Ekiz Instructor	M.A., European Politics, Business and Law, University of Surrey (U.K.), 2004.
Ege Ertuğrul Instructor	M.A., Turkish Literature, Ankara University, 2023.
Alireza Fatollahi Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020. General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Statistics, Early Modern Philosophy and Science.
Daniel Everett Ferguson Assistant Professor
Emine Geçgil Instructor	Ph.D., Institute of Social Sciences, American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2015.
N. İlgi Gerçek Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies, University of Michigan, 2012. Ancient Near Eastern Languages and History.
Adem Gergöy Instructor	M.A., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2017.
Emily Miriam Glider Assistant Professor
Bahtınur Gündoğdu Instructor	M.A., French Language Teaching, Anadolu University, 2020.
Mihaela P. Harper Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 2012. Department of English. Twentieth century and contemporary literature.
Britain Webb Hopkins Assistant Professor	DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford 2021. Debt and indebtedness, financialization and market governance, histories and geographies of liberalism, critical theory and cultural studies.
Thomas Wayne Howard Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English and American Literature, Washington University, 2023. Nineteenth Century American literature, literature and science, and environmental humanities.
Dragan Ilic Instructor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Colorado (Boulder), 2014.
Benjamin Titus Irvine Assistant Professor
Daniel Peter Johnson Assistant Professor	Ph.D., in History from Binghamton University, State University of New York 2011. Early America/Atlantic world, social and cultural history, social movements, popular politics, print culture.
Esmaeil Kalantari Assistant Professor
Mehmet Kalpaklı Associate Professor	Ph.D., Turkish Literature, University of Washington/Istanbul University, 1992. Ottoman literature and cultural history, Near Eastern languages and literature, modern Turkish literature, theory of literature, digital humanities.
Sedef Kendir Kurttekin Instructor	M.A., Modern Turkish Literature, Hacettepe University, 2022.
Scott Allen Kennedy Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2018. Classics.
Nazım Keven Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy - Neuroscience - Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016. Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Neurophilosophy, Moral Psychology.
Tufan Kıymaz	Ph.D., Philosophy, Indiana University, 2017. Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion.
Paul Elliot Kimball Instructor	Ph.D., Classics (concentration in ancient history) State University of New York at Buffalo, 2004. Hellenistic and late antique history, Byzantine social and cultural history, Greek religion, myth and ritual.
Zachary Murphy King Instructor	Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2023, Russian and Anglophone modernism, literary translation, aesthetics and Soviet culture.
James Kinkaid III Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University 2019. Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic,Philosophy of Mind.
Mary Katrina Krizan Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Colorado - Boulder, 2010. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Aristotle, History/Philosophy of Ancient Science.
Büşra Kurt Uçar Instructor	M.A., English Translation and Interpreting, Hacettepe University, 2019.
Luke Lea Assistant Professor
Nathan Paul Leidholm Interim Associate Professor	Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 2016. Byzantine and Late Antique History.
Victor Andersen Lenthe Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison., 2017. Renaissance and Early Modern England.
Kara Lee McCormack Assistant Professor	Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2015. Cultural studies, popular culture, history, Western myth, science fiction.
Patrick Charles McDonald Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2018. Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Popular Fiction, Literature and the Law, Political Theory and Political Theology, History of Capitalism.
Brian David McPhee Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020. Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
Aslı Menevşe Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, 2021. Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture of Europe, French Studies, Ottoman and Turkish Modernism.
Marjan Mohammadi Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Northwestern University and Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2020.
Alexander Paul Moran Assistant Professor
Mustafa Nakeeb	Ph.D., Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999. Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy (Plato), Ancient Historiography, Philosophy of History.
Saba Özdemir Sevin Instructor	M.A., Old Turkish Literature, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, 2019.
Güçlü Özkök Instructor	M.A., French Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, 1995.
Jonathan Payton Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto, 2016. Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, and Philosophy of Language.
Andrew Jonathan Ploeg Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English, University of Rhode Island, 2012. Postmodern and Contemporary American Literature.
Madeleine Erica Read Assistant Professor
Michele Rüzgar Massa Associate Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Archaeology, University College London, 2016. Near Eastern and eastern Mediterranean pre-, proto- and early historical archaeology; Landscape and Environmental archaeology; Digital archaeology; Archaeological approaches to social complexity; Funerary archaeology; Survey methodology.
Roland Ralph Redfern Smith Visiting Professor	Ph.D., Archaeology, University of Oxford, 1983. Greek and Roman art, Hellenistic and Roman portraits, Roman-period cities of Anatolia.
Adriana Monica Solomon Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 2017. History and Philosophy of Physics, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.
Kory Spencer Sorrell Instructor	Ph.D., Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 2000. American pragmatism, ethics, international human rights, and feminist epistemology and moral theory.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz Assistant Professor	Ph.D., German Studies, Cornell University, 2019. Interplay between Aesthetics, Theology and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century. (From Leibniz to Hegel.)
Kyra Sutton Assistant Professor	Ph.D., in Rhetoric and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley 2024. Twentieth-century and contemporary Anglo-American literature, critical theory, critical religion and secularism studies, political theology, literary theory.
Yehezkel Symonds Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Australian National university. Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Mind, and Metaphilosophy.
Zeynep Şengel Instructor	M.A., Conference Interpreting, Bilkent University, 2008.
Peter Louis M. Talloen Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Archaeology, University of Leuven, 2003. Classical Archaeology, Archaeology of Cult and Religion.
Burcu Taşkıran Instructor	M.A., Graduate School of Education, Bilkent University, 2002.
Dominique Selin Tezgör Professor Emeritus	Ph.D., State Doctorate, History of Civilization and Archaeology, University of Human Sciences of Dijon, 1993. Greek and Roman Archaeology, Ceramic production and trade in Black Sea.
Buffy Ann Turner Instructor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Purdue University (Indiana), 2014.
Seda Uyanık Tanrıverdi Instructor	Ph.D., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2011.
Attila Viragh Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English, University of California Berkeley, 2021. Nineteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy, Modernism, Intellectual History, Poetry and Poetics.
Simon Drummond Wigley Professor	Ph.D., Political Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1998. Political Philosophy, Ethics, distributive justice, responsibility, desert, well-being.
Jonathan Coleman Williams Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English, University of Maryland, 2016. 18th century British poetry and fiction, Renaissance literature, affect theory.
Daniel Mark Wolt Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Princeton University, 2016. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy.
Timothy Sean Wright Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English, Duke University, 2012. 20th and 21th century global Anglophone literature, urban studies, South African literature.
William Giles Wringe Associate Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Leeds, 2000. Philosophical logic, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind.
Mehmet Yıldız Assistant Professor
Luca Zavagno Associate Professor	Ph.D., History, University of Birmingham, 2007. Byzantine History, Medieval History.
Thomas Zimmermann Associate Professor	Ph.D., Regensburg University, 2006. European and Anatolian prehistory and protohistory, Archaeometallurgy.

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