Bilkent University

Academic Staff of Faculty of Humanities and Letters

Nefise Abalı Instructor	M.A., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2011.
Hacer Esra Almas Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, 2021.
Istvan Albert Aranyosi Interim Associate Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, Central European University, 2005. Metaphysics, philosophy of mind.
Safiye Bal Kuzucu Instructor
Emma Louise Baysal Visiting Associate Professor
Julian Bennett Professor	Ph.D., Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991. Art, architecture, and archaeology of the Roman World and early Byzantine Empire, Practical archaeology, archaeological drafting and surveying.
Sandrine Berges Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Leeds, 2000. Moral and Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy.
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 (on leave)	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
Alican Demir Instructor	M.A., French as a Foreign Language, Stendhal-Grenoble 3 University, 2003.
İrem Bengü Demirtaş Researcher
Murat Devrim Dirlikyapan Instructor	Ph.D., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2007.
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
Alireza Fatollahi Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020. General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Statistics, Early Modern Philosophy and Science.
Nebahat 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.
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.
Can Henry Adjunct Professor	Ph.D., Greek Archaeology, 2005.
Britain Webb Hopkins Assistant Professor
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.
Daniel Peter Johnson Assistant Professor	Ph.D., History, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2011. 17th and 18th century American social and Cultural history, early modern imperialism and popular politics, Historiography and social theory.
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 Assistant Professor of Teaching	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
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.
Nathan Paul Leidholm Assistant Professor (on leave)	Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 2016. Byzantine and Late Antique History.
Victor Lenthe Assistant Professor	Ph.D., English Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison., 2017. Renaissance and Early Modern England.
Michele Massa Assistant Professor	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.
Kara McCormack Assistant Professor	Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2013. 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
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 Sorbanne Nouvelle, Paris, 2020.
Mustafa Nakeeb Assistant Professor of Teaching	Ph.D., Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999. Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy (Plato), Ancient Historiography, Philosophy of History.
Stuart Douglas Olson Visiting Professor	Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1987. Ancient Greek poetry especially comedy.
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.
Andrea Selleri Assistant Professor	Ph.D., University of Warwick, 2014. Nineteenth-century British Literature, History of Criticism, Philosophy and Literature, History of Ideas.
Neda Siami Instructor	Ph.D., French Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2016.
Roland Ralph Redfern Smith Visiting Professor
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., 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 Instructor
Yehezkel Symonds Assistant Professor
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.
Buffy Ann Turner Instructor	Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Purdue University (Indiana), 2014.
Seda Uyanık Tanrıverdi Instructor	Ph.D., Turkish Literature, Bilkent University, 2011.
Saniye Vatansever Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015. Kant, Early Modern Philosophy.
Atti 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 (on leave)	Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Leeds, 2000. Philosophical logic, Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind.
Luca Zavagno Associate Professor (on leave)	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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