Dr. Gül Kurtuluş, Lecturer
Bilkent University
Faculty of Humanities and Letters
English Language and Literature Department
06800 Bilkent Ankara
+90 312 2901642
+90 312 2901930
kurtulus@bilkent.edu.tr

Education

1997-1992: PhD in English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, Ankara,
Turkey
Dissertation Title: 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
1992-1990: MA in English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dissertation Title: A Kaleidoscope of Harold Pinter’s Plays.
1985-1990: BA in English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey


First Monograph published by Peter Lang in January 2020

Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s

Publications

“Aphra Behn’s Sisters: The (Re)Appearance of Women Playwrights in Contemporary Drama,” Chapter Thirty-five. IDEA: Studies in English, ed. by Evrim Doğan Adanur, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 389-408.

“Letters to Queen Elizabeth: Anglo-Turkish Relations in Sultan Murad III’s Reign,” Studies in English: Proceedings from the 6th International IDEA Conference, Istanbul: Kultur University, 2012, 215-228.

“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, 107-118.

“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.

“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. https://ijosts.ubiquitypress.com/30/volume/7/issue/2/

“Brian Friel’s Ireland: A Translated Realm in Translations,” LITTERA Edebiyat Yazıları Journal for the Study Research of World Literatures Volume 35, July, 2015, 81-92.

“Ecology, Love and Relationships in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella,” Journal of Literature and Art Studies Volume 5, Number 9, September 2015, 692-705. DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.09.002


“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, Mustafa Kırca, Süleyman Demirel University Basımevi, Isparta,Turkey, 2016, 79-91. ISBN: 978-9944-452-90-8.

“Multidimensional and Ambidextrous Shakespeare” (Review Essay on Shakespeare), Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLVIII/1 (2017), 131-136.

“Updating Shakespeare: Reflections on the Possibilities of Reading and Teaching Shakespeare Today” Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, L/1 (2019), 307-313.

“A Divine Cause for Abandoning Reason in Shakespeare’s King Lear” Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 18 (Special Issue), 150-158.
DOI: 10.21547/jss.595324

“Can You See Shakespeare Now?” Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (2020) https://www.escj.org/blog/can-you-see-shakespeare-now.html



Book Reviews

“The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama,” ed. by Marcia Kupfer, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLI/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, XLII/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, XLII/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, XLIII/2 (2012), 484-485.

“Shakespeare and Biography,” by David Bevington, Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLIII/3 (2012), 862-864.

“Women Beware Women: A Critical Guide,” ed. by Andrew Hiscock, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLIII/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, XLV/1 (2014), 261-262.

“Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature,” ed. by David Coleman, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLV/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, XLVI/1 (2015), 234-235.

“Faith in Shakespeare,” by Richard C. McCoy, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, XLVI/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, XLVII/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, XLVIII/3 (2017), 775-777.

“Shakespeare’s Sonnets Re-visited,” by Jane Fairhead, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, L/3 (2019), 932-934.

“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 (submitted, under revision)

“Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play,” ed. by Lynn Enterline, Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Early Modern Studies (submitted, under revision)

“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 (submitted, under revision)





Academic Presentations

“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 Istanbul Kültür University, 2011, İstanbul, Turkey.

“Variables in Currriculum 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 bicentanery 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,” 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.


Book Chapter in Progress:
I’m working on an article about Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine to be published as a book chapter in Contemporary Theatre and Post-Theories. The chapter’s title is
“History, Memory, and Theatricality in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine.” The book is going to be published in 2021.



Professional Experience

Academic and Administrative Positions

2019 - present: Lecturer

1991 - 2019: Bilkent University, English Language and Literature Department, Instructor

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





Courses Taught

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 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 Memberships

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

Referees

Prof. Ian Brown, Emeritus Drama Professor, Kingston University, London
and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Email: ijmbrown@hotmail.com

Prof. Margaret Sands, Adjunct Professor, Bilkent University, Educational Sciences
Email: msands@bilkent.edu.tr

Prof. Gary Gibbs, Roanoke College, History Department
Email: gibbs@roanoke.edu



Prof. Dr. Burçin Erol, Chair, Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature Department
Email: burc@hacettepe.edu.tr

Prof. Dr. Deniz Bozer, Hacettepe University, English Language and Literature Department
Email: dbozer@hacettepe.edu.tr