Professor of German Philology at the German Department of Istanbul University/ Turkey

Main lines of research fields: literary criticism, intercultural studies, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies on academic discourse, multilingualism

Degrees and Education:

1985−1989: studies at the German Department of Istanbul University

1992: Master academic degree, thesis «The Use of Text Linguistics in German Teaching» («Metindilbilim ve Yabancı Dil Olarak Almanca Öğretimi»)

1999: PhD academic degree, thesis «The Text Type Literary Criticism in German and Turkish» («Almanca ve Türkçede Metin Türü olarak Yazın Eleştirisi»)

2006: Habilitation, monograph «Research on Text Linguistics Texts in Turkey» («Metindilbilim ve Türkçe»)

2014: Application for the professorship with the monograph «Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Comparisons on Academic Texts» («Bilimsel Metin Üretimi»)

Professional experience

1990 — 2001: Research Assistant at the German Department of Istanbul University

1994−1995: DAAD scholarship at the University of Bielefeld in Germany

2001−2006: Assistant Professor at the German Department of Istanbul University

2006−2014: Associate Professor at the German Department of Istanbul University

2014-: Professor at the German Department of Istanbul University

Courses: Text linguistics, linguistic studies, intercultural text analysis, literary criticism, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural analysis on academic texts.

The most important publications:

Monographs:

1. Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Comparisons on Academic Texts (Bilimsel Metin Üretimi) İstanbul: Papatya Yayıncılık, 2014.

2. Research on Text Linguistics Texts in Turkey (Metindilbilim ve Türkçe). İstanbul: Multilingual Yayınevi, 2003.

Research projects:

2010: «Metropolen als Ort von Begegnung und Isolation» (Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project, with Prof. Dr. Mahmut Karakuş)

2009- 2012: Researcher on the international Project «Turkish-German cultural contact and cultural transfer», which was conducted with Paderborn University.

2011-: working on a project about the German-Turkish film in the context of GIP (Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft) with Hamburg University.