Yabancı Dil Eğitimi

Prof. Dr. Ali Merthan Dündar enrolled in the Department of Eastern Languages and Literatures, Japanese Language and Literature Department at Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography in 1986 and graduated in 1991. He subsequently completed his M.A. and Ph.D. studies in the field of History (General Turkish History) at the Social Sciences Institute of Hacettepe University. Since 2001, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Japanese Language and Literature Department at Ankara University. In addition, he has taught part-time at Yozgat Bozok University and Ufuk University in Türkiye. Internationally, he has been a visiting researcher and delivered seminars at University of Tokyo, Keio University, Toyo University, Kazan Federal University in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russian Federation), Azerbaijan University of Languages, Stanford University, and University of Cambridge. He has authored or edited 50 books and published 68 academic articles.

Öğretim üyesi, yazar ve çevirmen. Karşılaştırmalı Kültür Çalışmaları alanındaki yüksek lisans ve doktorasını Kyoto Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı. Loti'yi Anlamak - Pierre Loti'nin Doğusu (2011), Japonya’da Türk İmgesinin Oluşumu (2014), Yerleşik Yabancı Pierre Loti (Gözden geçirilmiş yeni baskı, 2018) adlı inceleme kitapları ile Maruko’nun Yolculuğu (2019) adlı çocuk kitabı ve Dağın Rüyası (2022) adlı romanın yazarıdır. Haruki Murakami başta olmak üzere Kenzaburo Oe, Yukio Mishima, Natsuko Imamura, Mieko Kawakami'nin eserlerini çevirdi. En Sevilen Japon Masalları (2022) seçkisini hazırladı. Edebiyat dergilerinde özgün haikuları ile Matsuo Basho ve Taneda Santoka’dan yaptığı çeviriler yayımlanmıştır. I. Boğaziçi Kitap Fuarı Haiku Yarışması Mansiyon Ödülü (2010), Japonya Dışişleri Bakanı Ödülü (2020), Kitap Dergisi Yılın Çeviri Kitabı Ödülü (2023) (Haruki Murakami Sözlüğü) ve Talât Sait Halman Çeviri Ödülü (2024) (Kenzaburo Oe, Suda Ölüm) sahibidir.

1972 yılında Ankara’da doğdu. 1994 Haziranında Ankara Üniversitesi Dil-Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Kore Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalından mezun olduktan sonra Kasım ayında mezun olduğu bölümde araştırma görevlisi olarak göreve başladı. 1995 yılında Kore Hükümetinin yüksek lisans bursunu alarak Kore’ye gitti. 1996-1999 yılları arasından Ulusal Seul Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Kore Dili Eğitimi bölümünde yüksek lisans programını tamamladı. Kesintisiz olarak 1999 yılında aynı bölümde doktora programına başladı.
2004 Şubatında doktora programından mezun olup doktora derecesi alarak Türkiye’ye döndü. 2004–2006 yılları arasında Ankara Üniversitesi Dil-Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Kore Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalında araştırma görevlisi olarak görev yaptıktan sonra 16 Mayıs 2006’da Erciyes Üniversitesine yardımcı doçent olarak geçiş yaptı. 2010 yılında doçent, 2015 yılında profesörlük unvanı aldı.
9 Ekim 1997 tarihinde Kore, Yonsei Üniversitesi tarafından düzenlenen ‘6. Yabancılar Arası Korece Şiir ve Kompozisyon Yarışması’, şiir dalında büyük ödül kazandı. 9 Ekim 2012 tarihinde Kore Hükümeti tarafından Kore Dilinin gelişimi ve tanıtımına katkıda bulunanlara verilen Kore Devletbaşkanı Nişanını aldı. 'Gümüş Somon'un Büyük Yolculuğu' adlı çevirisiyle 2017 yılında Kore Edebiyat Çeviri Enstitüsünün verdiği 'En İyi Çeviri' ödülüne layık görüldü.
Halen Kore Erciyes Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Kore Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı başkanlığını yürütmektedir. Aynı zamanda ERÜ Avrasya Kore Araştırmaları Merkezi müdürlüğü yapmaktadır.
Kore dili eğitmenliği, araştırmacılığın yanı sıra edebiyat çevirileri de yapmaktadır. 

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Türkan Olcay is a Doctor of Philological Sciences (2002) and Full Professor (2012) at the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Istanbul University where she delivers courses on 19th-Century Russian Literature since 1994 and mentors master’s and doctoral students. She has also taught as a visiting professor at Anadolu University (Türkiye), L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria), Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and Jagiellonian University (Poland).
Prof. Dr. Olcay’s fields of specialization are 19th-Century Russian literature and Turkish-Russian cultural and literary relations, as well as the life and socio-cultural activities of the Russian immigrants (known as "White Russians") in Istanbul in the 1920’s. She has participated in many conferences, has authored five books and has written numerous publications including over hundred articles and book chapters. She is the editor-in-chief of the collective works “Russkaya belaya emigratsiya v Turtsii vek spustya 1919-2019” [Russian White Immigration in Turkey: a Century Later 1919-2019”], Moscow: A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, 2019 (in Russian) and “Beyaz Rusların Gelibolu Gurbetinin 100. Yıldönümü” [The 100th Anniversary of the White Russians’ Exile in Gallipoli], Chanakkale: COMU, 2020 (in Turkish).
Prof. Dr. Olcay has been carring out institutional and departamental administrative duties, serving on the editorial boards of leading international journals and is a member of the Expert Council of the Center for Turkish-Russian Cooperation in the field of research and practice TURUSIA at Chanakkale 18 March University.

Osman Solmaz is an associate professor of English Language Teaching at Dicle University, Türkiye. He received his Ph.D. degree from the interdisciplinary Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) doctoral program at the University of Arizona. His research interests include teacher education, linguistic landscapes, digital literacies, social media, the implementation of technology in second language teaching and learning.

Savaş Yeşilyurt, a faculty member in the Department of English Language Education at Atatürk University Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education, continues his research on topics such as affective factors, self-regulation, autonomous learning, and learner engagement in foreign language teaching and learning.

Yiğit Sümbül was born in Tarsus in 1990. He received his B.A. (2008-2012) from Hacettepe University’s Department of English Language and Literature. He was appointed as research assistant to Erciyes University's Department of English Language and Literature where he completed his M.A. (2012-2014) with a comparative thesis on modernist works of James Joyce and Oğuz Atay. He worked as a research assistant (2014-2018) at Gazi University's Department of English Language and Literature and completed his Ph.D. (2014-2018) at Ankara University's Department of English Language and Literature with a dissertation on selected plays of Howard Barker. He received his second B.A. degree (2014-2018) from İstanbul University's Department of Philosophy, his second M.A. degree (2018-2021) from Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University's Department of Philosophy, and his second PhD degree (2021-2025) from Ankara University's Department of Philosophy. He conducted post-doctoral research (October 2019-October 2020) at University of Southampton on contemporary British drama and doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Philosophy (February-August 2024). He received his associate professorship from the Turkish Interuniversity Board in 2023 and has been working as an associate professor at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University's Department of English Language and Literature ever since. His research and teaching span all periods of English Literature and Philosophy with a focus on contemporary English drama, contemporary English poetry, comparative literature and contemporary continental philosophy.

Education
Doctorate Ankara University
2016- 2021 Faculty of Languages History and Geography / Department of Sinology Thesis: Political Philosophy of Xunzi: In the Process of Establishing the Order: ‘Rituals’ and ‘Law’

Postgraduate Ankara University
2012-2015 Faculty of Languages History and Geography / Department of Sinology
Thesis: In the Western Han Dynasty of China, Western Regions Policy of the Emperor Han Wu Di (2015)

Undergraduate Ankara University
2006-2010 Faculty of Languages History and Geography / Department of Sinology

Undergraduate Hacettepe University
Since 2018 Faculty of Literature/ Department of Philosophy

Teaching Experience
Research Assistant RTE University/ Faculty of Science- Letters / Chinese Language and 2019- present Literature (Due to the faculty policy, my department now appears as Georgian Language and Literature Department officially, it is soon to be changed to ‘The Department of International Relations- Asian Studies’)
Please see: https://avesis.erdogan.edu.tr/burcin.bedel
Research Assistant Ankara University/Graduate School of Social Sciences/ Department of 2013- 2019 Sinology (6-year assigment)
Research Assistant RTE University / Faculty of Science- Letters / Chinese Language and 2012-2013 Literature



Publications
Articles published in internationally acclaimed journals:
BEDEL BURÇİN (2017). In The Period of Han Wu Di, The Policy Towards Western Regions. Aizonia Current Research in Social Sciences, 3(1), 35-49. (Publication No: 3425783)
Link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/curesosc/issue/27471
BEDEL BURÇİN (2022). An Examination of The Character of The Law and Its Relation with The Rituals In Xunzi's System of Thought. Ankara University Journal of Social Sciences, 13(2), 34-45.
Link: http://sobild.ankara.edu.tr/index.php/sobild/article/view/1842/833
BEDEL BURCIN (2023). A Mou Zongsan Criticism of Xunzi: ‘Morality is External’. Asian Philosophy Taylor and Francis Publishing House, 1-14.
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09552367.2022.2162194
Book Chapters:
1. BEDEL BURÇİN (2018). “Chinese Silk”. Chinese Civilization: History, Culture, Literature, Philosophy. (Ed.) G. Chiang Et. Al. Kesit Publishing House.
Link: https://www.kesityayinlari.com/kitap/cin-medeniyeti-tarih-kultur-edebiyat-felsefe-prof-dr-bulent-okay-in-35-meslek-yili-anisina-candan-kadriye-giray-9786059408752
2.BEDEL BURÇİN (2020) “Xunzi: the Inheritance and Development of Confucius’ Theory of Rites”, The Collected Works at the Symposium on China Studies 2018, (Ed.) Internationalexchange and Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of culture and Tourism, China Social Sciences Press
Link: http://www.csspw.cn/booksdetail_15923_2077116_1.jhtml
Papers published in international symposiums:
1. BEDEL BURÇİN (2022) “The Importance of Han Shu in Chinese Historiography”, in Turkish Historical Society International Prof. Dr. Halil Inalcik History and Historiography Symposium, Gazi University, Faculty of Science – Letters 10.04.2017- 13.04.2017 (International)
Link: https://www.ttk.gov.tr/10-37879-9789751749987-2022/
2. BEDEL BURCIN (2021) “Chinese Thought as Philosophy” (the paper is accepted for publication by the committee of 5th World Congress of Chinese Studies and awaits to be published, for more information please contact: wacs@china-studies.com)
Research
Presentations:
1. Turkish Historical Society International Prof. Dr. Halil Inalcik History and Historiography Symposium, Presentation, “The Importance of Han Shu in Chinese Historiography”, Gazi University, Faculty of Science – Letters 10.04.2017- 13.04.2017 (International)
2. 5th World Congress of Chinese Studies, Presentation, “Chinese Thought as Philosophy”, Witten/Herdecke University, 07.08.2021- 09.08.2021 (International)
3. I. Chinese Culture Seminar, Presentation, “Chinese Food Culture”, Ankara University, Faculty of Languages History and Geography, Muzaffer Göker Hall, Sertificate, 13.03.2013-13.03.2013 (National)
4. 2nd International Congress of Language and Translation Studies, Presentation, “The Hidden Philosophy in the Poems of Han Yu of the Tang Period”, Selçuk University, Online, 03-04.11. 2022 (International)
Scholarships and grants


16.06.2022- 20.06.2022 “Summer School on Contemporary Chinese Thought- Aesthetics, Anthropology, and Ethics through the Lens of Li Zehou’s Philosophy”, Organized by the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the European Association of Chinese Philosophy (EACP) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

11.2021- 11.2022 “New Sinology Program” Sino-foreign Cooperative Online Doctoral Training Program, Center for Language Education and Cooperation, China.

02.08.2021- 27.08.2021 University of Düsseldorf, Summer Courses at the Heinrich Heine University, DAAD, Germany.

02.2019- 01.2020 China/Fudan University, Senior Advanced Student major in Chinese Philosophy

09.2014 – 07.2015 China/ Beijing Language and Culture University, The College of Advanced Chinese Training as a General Scholar Student

Projects

1. China in My Imagination II, Painting Contest, Ministry of Education of Turkey and Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ankara cooperation, Coordinator, 09/12/2016
2. Turkey-China Dialogue of University Students: New Silk Road, Moderator, Ankara University, Faculty of Languages and History- Geography, Farabi Hall, Sertificate, 09.11.2015- 09.11.2015 (National)

3. 13th Chinese Bridge, Organizer, Ankara University, Faculty of Languages and History- Geography, Farabi Hall, Sertificate 11.05.2014- 11.05.2014 (National)



Language
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Chinese (fluent)
German (basic knowledge, B1.1)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hakan Saraç 12 Ağustos 1986 yılında Trabzon’un Çaykara ilçesinde doğdu. İlk, orta ve lise öğrenimini Sakarya’da tamamladı. Lisans (2006-2010) ve yüksek lisans (2010-2012) eğitimlerini Fatih Üniversitesi Rus Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde, doktora eğitimini (2013-2017) ise Lomonosov Moskova Devlet Üniversitesi’nde Söylem ve İletişim Teorisi Bölümü’nde (Кафедра теории дискурса и коммуникации) tamamladı.

Yüksek Lisans tezini “Seni Seviyorum, Moskova! Filmi Perspektifiyle Uygulamalı Rusça Derslerinde Türk Öğrencilere Dil ve Kültür Yeterliliği Kazandırma” (Формирование лингвокультурологической компетенции турецких учащихся на практических занятиях русского языка на материале фильма «Москва, я люблю тебя») üzerine, doktora tezini ise “Rus ve Türk Dilleri Materyallerinde Doğa-Peyzaj Kod Kültürü” (Природно-ландшафтный код культуры на материале русского и турецкого языков) üzerine yazdı. 2012 yılından beri Anadolu Üniversitesi Rus Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. Ağırlıklı olarak Türk, Slav ve Rus dilleri, kültürleri ile mitolojileri üzerine karşılaştırmaları çalışmaları bulunmaktadır. Araştırmacının ilgilendiği bilim alanları arasında dil bilimi, kültür dilbilimi, bilişsel dilbilimi, anlam bilimi, kültür tarihi ve halk bilimi yer almaktadır. 

Rahman Özdemir, Atatürk Üniversitesi Rus Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde Dr. Öğr. Üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Özdemir, Rus edebiyatı başta olmak üzere karşılaştırmalı edebiyat üzerina çalışmalar yapmaktadır. 

2011 yılında Fatih Üniversitesi Çin Dili ve Edebiyatı (Tam Burslu) bölümünden mezun olmuş, 2016 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Doğu Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Anabilim Dalı'nda (Sinoloji) yüksek lisansını, 2024 yılında ise doktorasını tamamlamıştır. 2013 yılında Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi’nde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başlamış, 2014-2018 yılları arasında Ankara Üniversitesi’nde görev almıştır. 2018’den bu yana Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Doğu Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü'nde araştırma görevlisi olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Dr. 

Ardahan University, Faculty of Humanities and Literature, Department of Russian Language and Literature