Dr. Senturk holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Kafkas University as the top student (class of 2010). Having pursued his MA studies in Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds in 2013, he received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Leicester, UK in 2019. Dr. Senturk was selected to represent the University of Leicester in a HeForShe United Nations project (2016-2019) against gender-based violence on campus. He was also the recipient of an award for "The Best Graduate Student Essay" contest organised by the Doris Lessing Society in 2017. His research interests lie in issues relating to gender, race and class in contemporary British fiction. He is specifically interested in critical social theory and critical literature pedagogy. He currently acts as the vice chair of the department, and as the deputy director in the School of Foreign Languages.