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Sumeyra Buran

University of Florida, English, Visiting Researcher-Associate Professor

Istanbul Medeniyet University, English, Faculty Member

University of California, Riverside, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor

University of California, Riverside, English, Visiting Scholar

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Sumeyra Buran is an associate professor of English at Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU). Since she was awarded a research grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) in 2018, she has worked as a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California Riverside and transferred to the University of Florida in January 2022. She is a co- editor of the Journal of Posthumanism and a book series collection on Posthuman Studies by Transnational Press London.

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Exploring the data on femicide across Europe

Femicide across Europe

Editorial for the Special Issue on Migration, Education, and Youth

Migration Letters, 2022

In this special issue, we present a selection of papers discussing from a multidisciplinary persp... more In this special issue, we present a selection of papers discussing from a multidisciplinary perspective and referring to various geographies, the particularities of young migrants, their decisions to return, determinants of their migration, social networks, integration, education, and their role in the diaspora. Our goal is to continue the debate on youth migration and point out the questions and theoretical challenges to further our understanding of human mobility.

Correspondence Between Cyborg Body and Cyber Self

Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 2015

Technology and science affect women globally and contemporary feminist science fiction weaves thi... more Technology and science affect women globally and contemporary feminist science fiction weaves this affect by criticizing such kind of classification as technology and science are inherently under the authority of patriarchy. Instead, technology and science can liberate women if used strategically (Melzer 19). Thus, over the past ten years or so, "there has been a great deal of general interest within feminist and cultural theory in two related but distinct metaphors, that of cyberspace, and the cyborg" (Wolmark, 1999: 1). In the age of digitalization, TechnoFeminism is the notion that gender and technology run together during the production process, women use the product for various means, that is, technological chance and the lives of women are interrelated to each other. Judy Wajcman issued her feminist views of technoscience by grounding her TechnoFeminism combining the philosophies of two important key feminist analysts of technoscience - Sadie Plant and Donna Haraway....

Death of “The” History: Alternative and Partial (Hi)Stories in Julian Barnes’s a History of the World in 10 Chapters and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic ... more Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic metafiction challenges the authority of the truth by highlighting alternative or small partial histories that have been neglected, ignored, untold, forgotten, bypassed, distorted, hidden, changed, omitted, eliminated, and eradicated. In this respect, history cannot be described as one concrete formulation or as a stable history but a collection of fragmented multiple histories. Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 Chapters (1989) and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1980) both deal with the historical facts, one in a playful and the other in a magical way, questioning what would happen if “the” history is rewritten by the other, ex-centric, excluded, unseen, unclean, abnormal, the victim or the ordinary people whose personal stories shape and deconstruct “the” history. What Barnes and Rushdie offer is “a” history of the world rather than the totalizing nature of “the” histor...

Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2020

ABSTRACT Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological d... more ABSTRACT Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage. Gwyneth Jones’s Life (2004) portrays myriad acts of violence against women in science with a specific critique of patriarchy that devalues women’s place in science as the “second sex.” The novel depicts “genderization of science,” questioning whether there are essential biological sexual differences through the psychology of a haunted woman bioscientist who discovers the Transferred Y chromosome that will change the future of gender with the death of male chromosome and birth of many diverse sexes. This article discusses how gender becomes a visible barrier to advancement in almost any field, but most importantly in the sciences due to gender stereotypes and gendered professional culture. This is achieved by exploring the threshold of madness the woman scientist is driven to as a response to the strain of ongoing patriarchal violence, in addition to the consequences of her psychological dilemma of balancing her multiple roles in professional career and personal life.

hiSTORiographic Metafiction of the Past Time: A self-begetting novel To Whom It May Concern

Kafkas Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2019

This is a self-archived version of an original article. This version may differ from the original... more

Interview with Sue Thomas on the Technofeminist Approach and Correspondence

This interview is a part of the Scientific Research Project of Atatiirk University carried on by ... more This interview is a part of the Scientific Research Project of Atatiirk University carried on by Professor Dr. Mukadder Erkan and Research Assistant Siimeyra Buran. Siimeyra Buran interviewed with Thomas for this project on the TechnoFeminist approach and Correspondence by Sue Thomas. Thomas welcomed and hosted her in a very kind manner, and they talked at the subject about three hours. The following is just a part of the interview; the rest will be issued in other relevant works.March 19,2013Sue Thomas's office at De Montfort University in LeicesterSiimeyra Buran: You are both an academician and a novelist. Which one do you prefer? Certainly both have some advantages and disadvantages. Could you share your feelings or thought about this double career?Sue Thomas: One small correction first - I used to be a novelist but my last novel, Water, was published in 1994 and I have now eschewed novels. Today I read and write only nonfiction. I can longer enter into the 'pact' of a novel, I'm afraid. And reality is just so much more interesting!I fell into academia by accident. It's a long story, but basically I wanted to be a writer from the age of about 10 or 12 and from that age read very widely, dipping into all sorts of authors I didn't really understand such as James Baldwin and D.H. Lawrence. My favorite poet was Dylan Thomas, to whom I was devoted. But my education was very disrupted by the family moving around the UK and I had an unsettled childhood which made me a rebel outsider at every school I attended, not helped by the fact that my family was Dutch and had slightly different cultural norms which also made me stand out a little. When I was around 14 1 encountered literary criticism for the first time, and was horrified by it. I saw it as pulling the wings off the butterfly and refused to participate! The end result when it came to exams was that I did very well in terms of creativity and writing skills (what they called English Language) but failed English Literature and therefore was not allowed to study English at a higher level. My original plan had been to study English at university and then become first a journalist and then a novelist - rather naive!So when I could not study English, I went to Art College instead. I was looking for places where it was acceptable to be different, I guess. I didn't finish my art course and ended up working in a bookshop and other places. It was only in my mid-30s when my marriage broke up and I found myself a lone parent with 2 small girls that friends persuaded me to go back to studying. I studied Humanities (English and History with computing), and had the chance to take a creative writing course. This is when I got back on track with writing and began my first novel. I was 37. After that, academia offered me the chance to earn money and so I developed a career there, eventually becoming a research professor. But I've never really fitted in there either -1 guess my colleagues are the same people I didn't fit in with at school! Now at age 61 I am switching to freelance consultancy with my pension as a safety-net and I suspect this will feel much more comfortable.So I was lucky in that academia of the 1990s and 2000s gave me a good income, prestige, nice pieces of kit (computers etc.) and a very useful travel allowance, and in that way it helped broaden my experience and generate many of the things I write about. Intellectually, it has sharpened my thinking and exposed me to all kinds of ideas I would have been unlikely to encounter elsewhere. On the negative side, however, academia in the UK is now an increasingly unpleasant place to be as it has become subject to massive funding cuts and onerous audits of teaching and research which stifle creative adventure and make lecturers, researchers and students play too safe. No doubt this will all settle down in a decade or so, and of course adversity is always a breeding place for innovation, but right now I would not recommend it as a career path. …

The role of ICT in general economics teaching: an example from Turkey

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2012

This study aims at exploring the effects of ICT in education. Computers play a vital role in ever... more This study aims at exploring the effects of ICT in education. Computers play a vital role in every field of our lives. They facilitate an audiovisual representation of information, thus making the process of learning interactive and interesting in education. Therefore, it is only but natural the role of computers in e-learning has been given a lot of prominence in the recent years. In many countries education system, preservation of information process and transfer is being set on computer surroundings and they are focused on e-learning programmes. E-learning plays a key role in the modern systems of education. E-learning has revolutionised the education industry. Our results show that computer assisted learning has many beneficial effects on learners.

E-learning in life long education: A computational approach to determining listening comprehension ability

Education and Information Technologies, 2010

E-Learning is the use of telecommunication technology to deliver information for education and tr... more E-Learning is the use of telecommunication technology to deliver information for education and training and it is emerging as the new paradigm of modern education. Because of the increasing amount of technology integration in the learning environment, more and more studies focus on examining “how people learn with technology” This study was conducted to find out how computer assisted language

Exploring the data on femicide across Europe

Edebiyat ve Posthumanizm

Transnational Press London, 2020

An Identity of One’s Own: Feminist Ideology and Identity Crisis of an Academic Woman in a Postmodern Feminist Fiction

Why academic women struggle to find an identity of their own in &quot;the genderization of sc... more Why academic women struggle to find an identity of their own in &quot;the genderization of science&quot; (Keller, 1984, 78)? Is it because they still &quot;face stereotyping, gendered barriers, exclusion, mobbing, discounting and discrediting in the patriarchal domain of science&quot;? (Buran, 2020). This paper close-reads the interface between feminist ideology and biology that Margaret Drabble develops in her The Millstone (1965), which tells the transition from traditional ideal women to women in crisis in PostWar Britain. This postmodern feminist fiction reconstructs an alternative woman protagonist, Rosamund Stacey, liberated in all facets of life for whom marriage is not the goal but her academic career, as she prefers to remain a single mother without depending on a husband. The aim of this article is to explore how Drabble portrays an academic woman&#39;s self-journey towards a sense of fragmented identity crises of social, familial, professional, and maternal. This is achieved by exploring Rosamund&#39;s quest to find her feminist ideology and true identity flying from body constraints and socially assigned female roles.

Virginia Woolf ve James Joyce’un Modern Anlatım Teknikleri Üzerine Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışma

At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernist writers moved away from the traditional expr... more At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernist writers moved away from the traditional expression of reality and explored the inner worlds and inner thought flows of characters with new experimental narrative techniques. The narrative techniques used in modern English literature are presented by the authors in both similar and different forms, which gives each author unique writing technique and method. This study, using a comparative method, presents a synthesis by examining the novels of Woolf and Joyce, the two most important authors of the modern novel, in terms of different types of narrative techniques they use. Woolf‟s sensitive, cyclical, and spiral female narrative and Joyce‟s rational, direct, and cinematic narration with limited punctuation marks are examples of this distinction. In addition, Woolf's existing narrative technique both resembles and differs with Joyce's epiphany technique. Both authors reveal the spiritual experiences, emotions and flows of co...

A Comparative Study on the Narrative Techniques of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

Manas, 2021

Yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, modernist yazarlar gerçekliğin geleneksel ifade biçiminden uzaklaşa... more Yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, modernist yazarlar gerçekliğin geleneksel ifade biçiminden uzaklaşarak yeni deneysel anlatım teknikleri ile karakterlerin iç dünyalarına ve içsel düşünce akışlarına yönelmişlerdir. Modern İngiliz edebiyatında kullanılan anlatım teknikleri yazarlar tarafından hem benzer hem de farklı biçimlerde sunulmaktadır ve bu da her yazara özgün yazım teknik ve yöntemi kazandırmaktadır. Karşılaştırmalı yöntem kullanan bu çalışma modern romanın en önemli iki özgün yazarı olan Woolf ve Joyce'un romanlarını kullandıkları anlatım teknikleri türleri açısından inceleyerek bir sentez sunmaktadır. Woolf'un duyarlı, döngüsel ve sarmal anlatımı ile Joyce'un sınırlı noktalama işaretleriyle, rasyonel, doğrusal ve sinematik anlatımı bu ayrıma birer örnektir. Ayrıca Woolf'un varolma anlatı tekniği Joyce'un epifan tekniği ile hem benzeşir hem de ayrışır. Her iki yazar da farklı üslup, biçem ve yöntem aracılığıyla tıpkı bir nehir gibi akışkan olan zamanda ileri ve geri giderek tek bir güne sığan anlatıları ile karakterlerin ruhsal deneyimlerini, duygu ve bilinç akışlarını ortaya çıkartırlar. Bu bağlamda bu makale modern İngiliz edebiyatında bilinç akışı, iç monolog, serbest dolaylı söylem, epifan, varolma anları gibi modern anlatım tekniklerini ustaca kullanan iki öncü yazar olan Virginia Woolf ve James Joyce'un yazı tekniklerindeki benzerlikler ve farklılıkları karşılaştırmayı amaçlar.

Kahramanın Yalnızlığı

Yalnızlığın Kitabı , 2021

Science in Science Fiction: End of Y Chromosome and Birth of Many Sexes

Science Fictions and Popular Cultures , 2020

Kindly note there are nearly 200 hours of programming going on in parallel for which your registr... more

Fabulation of Alternative Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction

SFRA Review, 2020

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Biyogenetik Posthüman Bilimkurgu: Yarının Gen-Tasarımlı Çocukları ve Gen-Kapitalist Sınıfları

Edebiyatta Posthümanizm, 2020

Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life

CRITIQUE: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION, 2020

Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage. Gw... more Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with
psychological damage. Gwyneth Jones’s Life (2004) portrays myriad acts of violence against women in science with a specific critique of patriarchy that devalues women’s place in science as the “second sex.” The novel depicts “genderization of science,” questioning whether there are essential biological sexual differences through the psychology of a haunted woman bioscientist who discovers the Transferred Y chromosome that will change the future of gender with the death of male chromosome and birth of many diverse sexes. This article discusses how gender becomes a visible barrier to advancement in almost any field, but most importantly in the sciences due to gender stereotypes and gendered professional culture. This is achieved by
exploring the threshold of madness the woman scientist is driven to as
a response to the strain of ongoing patriarchal violence, in addition to the consequences of her psychological dilemma of balancing her multiple roles in professional career and personal life.

DEATH OF “THE” HISTORY: ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL (HI)STORIES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 101/2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences, 2020

Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic ... more Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic metafiction challenges the authority of the truth by highlighting alternative or small partial histories that have been neglected, ignored, untold, forgotten, bypassed, distorted, hidden, changed, omitted, eliminated, and eradicated. In this respect, history cannot be described as one concrete formulation or as a stable history but a collection of fragmented multiple histories. Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989) and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1980) both deal with the historical facts, one in a playful and the other in a magical way, questioning what would happen if "the" history is rewritten by the other, ex-centric, excluded, unseen, unclean, abnormal, the victim or the ordinary people whose personal stories shape and deconstruct "the" history. What Barnes and Rushdie offer is "a" history of the world rather than the totalizing nature of "the" history of the world, demonstrating many possible partial histories and personal (hi)stories or (her)stories interrelated to the grand history or national history. This article examines how Barnes and Rushdie portrays an alternative historical rewriting by blurring the line between the factual and fictional history that makes readers question the assumptions about the objectivity and truthiness of history. Öz Kimin bakış açısı, kimin hakikati, kimin tarih versiyonu ayakta kalabilir? Postmodern tarihyazımsal üstkurgu, ihmal edilmiş, göz ardı edilmiş, anlatılmamış, unutulmuş, atlanmış, çarpıtılmış, gizlenmiş, değiştirilmiş, atlanmış, ortadan kaldırılmış ve silinmiş alternatif veya küçük taraflı tarihleri vurgulayarak gerçeğin otoritesine meydan okur. Bu bakımdan tarih, tek bir somut formülasyon ya da istikrarlı bir tarih olarak değil, parçalanmış çoklu tarihlerin bir koleksiyonu olarak tanımlanabilir. Julian Barnes'ın On 1 This article is a revised and extended version of the paper presented at romanların her ikisi de eğer kişisel öyküleri ile "tekil" tarihi şekillendiren ve yeniden yapılandıran öteki, ek-santrik, dışlanmış, görünmeyen, kirli, anormal, kurban ve sıradan insanlar tarafından tarih yeniden yazılırsa ne olacağını sorgulayarak-biri latifeci diğeri de büyülü gerçekçi bir yolla-tarihsel gerçekleri ele alırlar. Barnes ve Rushdie'nin sunduğu, büyük tarih veya ulusal tarihle karşılıklı ilişkili olan birçok olası taraflı tarihleri ve kişisel (eril-dişil) öyküleri açımlayan tümleyici doğası ile "tekil" dünya tarihinden ziyade "herhangi bir" dünya tarihidir. Bu makale, Barnes ve Rushdie'nin, okuyucuların tarihin tarafsızlığı ve doğruluğu hakkındaki varsayımları sorgulamasına neden olan gerçekçi ve kurgusal tarih arasındaki çizgiyi bulanıklaştırarak alternatif bir tarihsel yeniden yazımı nasıl tasvir ettiğini inceliyor.

Exploring the data on femicide across Europe

Femicide across Europe

Editorial for the Special Issue on Migration, Education, and Youth

Migration Letters, 2022

In this special issue, we present a selection of papers discussing from a multidisciplinary persp... more In this special issue, we present a selection of papers discussing from a multidisciplinary perspective and referring to various geographies, the particularities of young migrants, their decisions to return, determinants of their migration, social networks, integration, education, and their role in the diaspora. Our goal is to continue the debate on youth migration and point out the questions and theoretical challenges to further our understanding of human mobility.

Correspondence Between Cyborg Body and Cyber Self

Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 2015

Technology and science affect women globally and contemporary feminist science fiction weaves thi... more Technology and science affect women globally and contemporary feminist science fiction weaves this affect by criticizing such kind of classification as technology and science are inherently under the authority of patriarchy. Instead, technology and science can liberate women if used strategically (Melzer 19). Thus, over the past ten years or so, "there has been a great deal of general interest within feminist and cultural theory in two related but distinct metaphors, that of cyberspace, and the cyborg" (Wolmark, 1999: 1). In the age of digitalization, TechnoFeminism is the notion that gender and technology run together during the production process, women use the product for various means, that is, technological chance and the lives of women are interrelated to each other. Judy Wajcman issued her feminist views of technoscience by grounding her TechnoFeminism combining the philosophies of two important key feminist analysts of technoscience - Sadie Plant and Donna Haraway....

Death of “The” History: Alternative and Partial (Hi)Stories in Julian Barnes’s a History of the World in 10 Chapters and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic ... more Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic metafiction challenges the authority of the truth by highlighting alternative or small partial histories that have been neglected, ignored, untold, forgotten, bypassed, distorted, hidden, changed, omitted, eliminated, and eradicated. In this respect, history cannot be described as one concrete formulation or as a stable history but a collection of fragmented multiple histories. Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 Chapters (1989) and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1980) both deal with the historical facts, one in a playful and the other in a magical way, questioning what would happen if “the” history is rewritten by the other, ex-centric, excluded, unseen, unclean, abnormal, the victim or the ordinary people whose personal stories shape and deconstruct “the” history. What Barnes and Rushdie offer is “a” history of the world rather than the totalizing nature of “the” histor...

Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2020

ABSTRACT Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological d... more ABSTRACT Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage. Gwyneth Jones’s Life (2004) portrays myriad acts of violence against women in science with a specific critique of patriarchy that devalues women’s place in science as the “second sex.” The novel depicts “genderization of science,” questioning whether there are essential biological sexual differences through the psychology of a haunted woman bioscientist who discovers the Transferred Y chromosome that will change the future of gender with the death of male chromosome and birth of many diverse sexes. This article discusses how gender becomes a visible barrier to advancement in almost any field, but most importantly in the sciences due to gender stereotypes and gendered professional culture. This is achieved by exploring the threshold of madness the woman scientist is driven to as a response to the strain of ongoing patriarchal violence, in addition to the consequences of her psychological dilemma of balancing her multiple roles in professional career and personal life.

hiSTORiographic Metafiction of the Past Time: A self-begetting novel To Whom It May Concern

Kafkas Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2019

This is a self-archived version of an original article. This version may differ from the original... more

Interview with Sue Thomas on the Technofeminist Approach and Correspondence

This interview is a part of the Scientific Research Project of Atatiirk University carried on by ... more This interview is a part of the Scientific Research Project of Atatiirk University carried on by Professor Dr. Mukadder Erkan and Research Assistant Siimeyra Buran. Siimeyra Buran interviewed with Thomas for this project on the TechnoFeminist approach and Correspondence by Sue Thomas. Thomas welcomed and hosted her in a very kind manner, and they talked at the subject about three hours. The following is just a part of the interview; the rest will be issued in other relevant works.March 19,2013Sue Thomas's office at De Montfort University in LeicesterSiimeyra Buran: You are both an academician and a novelist. Which one do you prefer? Certainly both have some advantages and disadvantages. Could you share your feelings or thought about this double career?Sue Thomas: One small correction first - I used to be a novelist but my last novel, Water, was published in 1994 and I have now eschewed novels. Today I read and write only nonfiction. I can longer enter into the 'pact' of a novel, I'm afraid. And reality is just so much more interesting!I fell into academia by accident. It's a long story, but basically I wanted to be a writer from the age of about 10 or 12 and from that age read very widely, dipping into all sorts of authors I didn't really understand such as James Baldwin and D.H. Lawrence. My favorite poet was Dylan Thomas, to whom I was devoted. But my education was very disrupted by the family moving around the UK and I had an unsettled childhood which made me a rebel outsider at every school I attended, not helped by the fact that my family was Dutch and had slightly different cultural norms which also made me stand out a little. When I was around 14 1 encountered literary criticism for the first time, and was horrified by it. I saw it as pulling the wings off the butterfly and refused to participate! The end result when it came to exams was that I did very well in terms of creativity and writing skills (what they called English Language) but failed English Literature and therefore was not allowed to study English at a higher level. My original plan had been to study English at university and then become first a journalist and then a novelist - rather naive!So when I could not study English, I went to Art College instead. I was looking for places where it was acceptable to be different, I guess. I didn't finish my art course and ended up working in a bookshop and other places. It was only in my mid-30s when my marriage broke up and I found myself a lone parent with 2 small girls that friends persuaded me to go back to studying. I studied Humanities (English and History with computing), and had the chance to take a creative writing course. This is when I got back on track with writing and began my first novel. I was 37. After that, academia offered me the chance to earn money and so I developed a career there, eventually becoming a research professor. But I've never really fitted in there either -1 guess my colleagues are the same people I didn't fit in with at school! Now at age 61 I am switching to freelance consultancy with my pension as a safety-net and I suspect this will feel much more comfortable.So I was lucky in that academia of the 1990s and 2000s gave me a good income, prestige, nice pieces of kit (computers etc.) and a very useful travel allowance, and in that way it helped broaden my experience and generate many of the things I write about. Intellectually, it has sharpened my thinking and exposed me to all kinds of ideas I would have been unlikely to encounter elsewhere. On the negative side, however, academia in the UK is now an increasingly unpleasant place to be as it has become subject to massive funding cuts and onerous audits of teaching and research which stifle creative adventure and make lecturers, researchers and students play too safe. No doubt this will all settle down in a decade or so, and of course adversity is always a breeding place for innovation, but right now I would not recommend it as a career path. …

The role of ICT in general economics teaching: an example from Turkey

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2012

This study aims at exploring the effects of ICT in education. Computers play a vital role in ever... more This study aims at exploring the effects of ICT in education. Computers play a vital role in every field of our lives. They facilitate an audiovisual representation of information, thus making the process of learning interactive and interesting in education. Therefore, it is only but natural the role of computers in e-learning has been given a lot of prominence in the recent years. In many countries education system, preservation of information process and transfer is being set on computer surroundings and they are focused on e-learning programmes. E-learning plays a key role in the modern systems of education. E-learning has revolutionised the education industry. Our results show that computer assisted learning has many beneficial effects on learners.

E-learning in life long education: A computational approach to determining listening comprehension ability

Education and Information Technologies, 2010

E-Learning is the use of telecommunication technology to deliver information for education and tr... more E-Learning is the use of telecommunication technology to deliver information for education and training and it is emerging as the new paradigm of modern education. Because of the increasing amount of technology integration in the learning environment, more and more studies focus on examining “how people learn with technology” This study was conducted to find out how computer assisted language

Exploring the data on femicide across Europe

Edebiyat ve Posthumanizm

Transnational Press London, 2020

An Identity of One’s Own: Feminist Ideology and Identity Crisis of an Academic Woman in a Postmodern Feminist Fiction

Why academic women struggle to find an identity of their own in &quot;the genderization of sc... more Why academic women struggle to find an identity of their own in &quot;the genderization of science&quot; (Keller, 1984, 78)? Is it because they still &quot;face stereotyping, gendered barriers, exclusion, mobbing, discounting and discrediting in the patriarchal domain of science&quot;? (Buran, 2020). This paper close-reads the interface between feminist ideology and biology that Margaret Drabble develops in her The Millstone (1965), which tells the transition from traditional ideal women to women in crisis in PostWar Britain. This postmodern feminist fiction reconstructs an alternative woman protagonist, Rosamund Stacey, liberated in all facets of life for whom marriage is not the goal but her academic career, as she prefers to remain a single mother without depending on a husband. The aim of this article is to explore how Drabble portrays an academic woman&#39;s self-journey towards a sense of fragmented identity crises of social, familial, professional, and maternal. This is achieved by exploring Rosamund&#39;s quest to find her feminist ideology and true identity flying from body constraints and socially assigned female roles.

Virginia Woolf ve James Joyce’un Modern Anlatım Teknikleri Üzerine Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışma

At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernist writers moved away from the traditional expr... more At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernist writers moved away from the traditional expression of reality and explored the inner worlds and inner thought flows of characters with new experimental narrative techniques. The narrative techniques used in modern English literature are presented by the authors in both similar and different forms, which gives each author unique writing technique and method. This study, using a comparative method, presents a synthesis by examining the novels of Woolf and Joyce, the two most important authors of the modern novel, in terms of different types of narrative techniques they use. Woolf‟s sensitive, cyclical, and spiral female narrative and Joyce‟s rational, direct, and cinematic narration with limited punctuation marks are examples of this distinction. In addition, Woolf's existing narrative technique both resembles and differs with Joyce's epiphany technique. Both authors reveal the spiritual experiences, emotions and flows of co...

A Comparative Study on the Narrative Techniques of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

Manas, 2021

Yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, modernist yazarlar gerçekliğin geleneksel ifade biçiminden uzaklaşa... more Yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, modernist yazarlar gerçekliğin geleneksel ifade biçiminden uzaklaşarak yeni deneysel anlatım teknikleri ile karakterlerin iç dünyalarına ve içsel düşünce akışlarına yönelmişlerdir. Modern İngiliz edebiyatında kullanılan anlatım teknikleri yazarlar tarafından hem benzer hem de farklı biçimlerde sunulmaktadır ve bu da her yazara özgün yazım teknik ve yöntemi kazandırmaktadır. Karşılaştırmalı yöntem kullanan bu çalışma modern romanın en önemli iki özgün yazarı olan Woolf ve Joyce'un romanlarını kullandıkları anlatım teknikleri türleri açısından inceleyerek bir sentez sunmaktadır. Woolf'un duyarlı, döngüsel ve sarmal anlatımı ile Joyce'un sınırlı noktalama işaretleriyle, rasyonel, doğrusal ve sinematik anlatımı bu ayrıma birer örnektir. Ayrıca Woolf'un varolma anlatı tekniği Joyce'un epifan tekniği ile hem benzeşir hem de ayrışır. Her iki yazar da farklı üslup, biçem ve yöntem aracılığıyla tıpkı bir nehir gibi akışkan olan zamanda ileri ve geri giderek tek bir güne sığan anlatıları ile karakterlerin ruhsal deneyimlerini, duygu ve bilinç akışlarını ortaya çıkartırlar. Bu bağlamda bu makale modern İngiliz edebiyatında bilinç akışı, iç monolog, serbest dolaylı söylem, epifan, varolma anları gibi modern anlatım tekniklerini ustaca kullanan iki öncü yazar olan Virginia Woolf ve James Joyce'un yazı tekniklerindeki benzerlikler ve farklılıkları karşılaştırmayı amaçlar.

Kahramanın Yalnızlığı

Yalnızlığın Kitabı , 2021

Science in Science Fiction: End of Y Chromosome and Birth of Many Sexes

Science Fictions and Popular Cultures , 2020

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Fabulation of Alternative Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction

SFRA Review, 2020

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Biyogenetik Posthüman Bilimkurgu: Yarının Gen-Tasarımlı Çocukları ve Gen-Kapitalist Sınıfları

Edebiyatta Posthümanizm, 2020

Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life

CRITIQUE: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION, 2020

Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with psychological damage. Gw... more Violence manifests itself in a multitude of forms leaving survivors with
psychological damage. Gwyneth Jones’s Life (2004) portrays myriad acts of violence against women in science with a specific critique of patriarchy that devalues women’s place in science as the “second sex.” The novel depicts “genderization of science,” questioning whether there are essential biological sexual differences through the psychology of a haunted woman bioscientist who discovers the Transferred Y chromosome that will change the future of gender with the death of male chromosome and birth of many diverse sexes. This article discusses how gender becomes a visible barrier to advancement in almost any field, but most importantly in the sciences due to gender stereotypes and gendered professional culture. This is achieved by
exploring the threshold of madness the woman scientist is driven to as
a response to the strain of ongoing patriarchal violence, in addition to the consequences of her psychological dilemma of balancing her multiple roles in professional career and personal life.

DEATH OF “THE” HISTORY: ALTERNATIVE AND PARTIAL (HI)STORIES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 101/2 CHAPTERS AND SALMAN RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences, 2020

Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic ... more Whose perspective, whose truth, whose version of history can survive? Postmodern historiographic metafiction challenges the authority of the truth by highlighting alternative or small partial histories that have been neglected, ignored, untold, forgotten, bypassed, distorted, hidden, changed, omitted, eliminated, and eradicated. In this respect, history cannot be described as one concrete formulation or as a stable history but a collection of fragmented multiple histories. Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989) and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1980) both deal with the historical facts, one in a playful and the other in a magical way, questioning what would happen if "the" history is rewritten by the other, ex-centric, excluded, unseen, unclean, abnormal, the victim or the ordinary people whose personal stories shape and deconstruct "the" history. What Barnes and Rushdie offer is "a" history of the world rather than the totalizing nature of "the" history of the world, demonstrating many possible partial histories and personal (hi)stories or (her)stories interrelated to the grand history or national history. This article examines how Barnes and Rushdie portrays an alternative historical rewriting by blurring the line between the factual and fictional history that makes readers question the assumptions about the objectivity and truthiness of history. Öz Kimin bakış açısı, kimin hakikati, kimin tarih versiyonu ayakta kalabilir? Postmodern tarihyazımsal üstkurgu, ihmal edilmiş, göz ardı edilmiş, anlatılmamış, unutulmuş, atlanmış, çarpıtılmış, gizlenmiş, değiştirilmiş, atlanmış, ortadan kaldırılmış ve silinmiş alternatif veya küçük taraflı tarihleri vurgulayarak gerçeğin otoritesine meydan okur. Bu bakımdan tarih, tek bir somut formülasyon ya da istikrarlı bir tarih olarak değil, parçalanmış çoklu tarihlerin bir koleksiyonu olarak tanımlanabilir. Julian Barnes'ın On 1 This article is a revised and extended version of the paper presented at romanların her ikisi de eğer kişisel öyküleri ile "tekil" tarihi şekillendiren ve yeniden yapılandıran öteki, ek-santrik, dışlanmış, görünmeyen, kirli, anormal, kurban ve sıradan insanlar tarafından tarih yeniden yazılırsa ne olacağını sorgulayarak-biri latifeci diğeri de büyülü gerçekçi bir yolla-tarihsel gerçekleri ele alırlar. Barnes ve Rushdie'nin sunduğu, büyük tarih veya ulusal tarihle karşılıklı ilişkili olan birçok olası taraflı tarihleri ve kişisel (eril-dişil) öyküleri açımlayan tümleyici doğası ile "tekil" dünya tarihinden ziyade "herhangi bir" dünya tarihidir. Bu makale, Barnes ve Rushdie'nin, okuyucuların tarihin tarafsızlığı ve doğruluğu hakkındaki varsayımları sorgulamasına neden olan gerçekçi ve kurgusal tarih arasındaki çizgiyi bulanıklaştırarak alternatif bir tarihsel yeniden yazımı nasıl tasvir ettiğini inceliyor.

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

by Sumeyra Buran, Pelin Kumbet, Nora Castle, and Esthie Hugo

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reprod... more Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women’s bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

REPRESENTATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ARTS CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 2021 EDEBİYAT, KÜLTÜR VE SANATTA ŞİDDET TEMSİLLERİ KONFERANS BİLDİRİLER KİTABI 2021

by Sumeyra Buran, Mahinur Aksehir, and Neslihan Koroglu

Transnational Press London, Sep 17, 2022

In his foreword to World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organizatio... more In his foreword to World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002, Nelson Mandela states that “the twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence”. Now we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, but violence still permeates in our lives at various levels. Various forms of violence occurring at levels of interpersonal, self-directed, collective, state, warfare, child and youth violence, intimate partner violence, environmental violence, and animal violence lay bare the complexity and pervasiveness of the phenomenon, yet it also brings along the necessity to discuss violence from multiple perspectives.

Nelson Mandela Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’nün 2002 yılında yayınladığı Şiddet ve Sağlık Hakkında Dünya Raporu’nun önsözünde “yirminci yüzyılın şiddetle mimlenen bir yüzyıl olarak hatırlanacağını” söyler. Bizler, neredeyse yirmi birinci yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinin sonlarını yaşamaktayız, ancak şiddet hayatımıza hala çeşitli düzeylerde nüfuz ediyor. Kişilerarası, öze yöneltilen, kolektif, devlet, savaş, çocuk ve genç şiddeti, yakın eş şiddeti, çevresel şiddet ve hayvan şiddeti gibi çeşitli düzlemlerde vuku bulan şiddet biçimleri olgunun karmaşıklığını ve yaygınlığını açıkça ortaya koymakla beraber şiddet kavramının farklı açılardan tartışılması gerekliliğini de ortaya koymaktadır.

Sert Bilimkurguda Kuantum, Metafizik ve Genetik Mühendisliği

Bilimkurguyu Anlamak: Alt Türlere Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar, 2021

Sert Bilim Kurgu terimi geleneği 1957’de P. Schuyler Miller tarafından ortaya atılsa da 1930’Iarı... more Sert Bilim Kurgu terimi geleneği 1957’de P. Schuyler Miller tarafından ortaya atılsa da 1930’Iarın sonlarından itibaren günümüzde çok etkin bir şekilde devam etmektedir. Asimov’un tanımıyla “sert bilim kurgu, gerçek bilimsel bilgiyi ön plana çıkaran, buna dayalı olay örgüsü geliştiren ve sonuca ulaştıran hikayelerdir.” Aslında bilim kurgunun bu alt türü işlenen bilim insanlarından ziyade gerçek bilimsel verilere dayanan ve gerçek bilimle çelişmeyen tekno-bilimsel düşüncelerdir ve olay örgüsünün teknolojik ve bilimsel gerçekçi unsurlar ile gelişmesine yön verir. Bu da Sert BK yazarının engin bir bilimsel birikime sahip olması anlamına gelir. Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Gregory Benfor, Geoffrey Landis, G. David Nordley, Paul McAuley, Ian Banks, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, Brian Stableford, Allen Steele, Bruce Sterling, Robert J. Sawyer, Gwyneth Jones, ve Justina Robson gibi 1990’ların en ünlü isimleri ile Rönesans dönemi başlamıştır. Alternatif Gerçekçi Bilimkurgu ya da Yakın Gelecek Bilimkurgusunun da bu türe dahil olması beni daha çok Çağdaş Sert BK’ya yöneltmektedir. Bu bölümde bilim kurgunun altın çağında daha çok ön planda olan Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sawyer, Robert A. Heinlein gibi klasik sert bilimkurgu yazarlarının geleneğinden gelen ve çok incelenmiş kanonik erkek egemen Sert BK ötesine geçerek daha az işlenen alternatif kadın bakış açısına sahip Çağdaş Kadın Sert BK romanları tartışılacaktır. Uygulama örneği olarak da realist bilimsel gelişmeleri tema edinen ve “Yeni Britanya Sert BK romanlarının en önemli yazarlarından biri” olarak seçilen ödüllü yazar Robson’un eserleri Kuantum Fizik ve Metafizik kuramsal bir arka planla ve feminist eleştiri yöntemi ile incelenecektir. Robson’un Sert BK konuları olarak Kuantum Teorisini işlediği Quantum Gravity Serisi ve metafizik teorisini işlediği 4-G ve 7-G M-teknolojisine dayanan çok boyutlu Stuff Universe Serisi romanları üzerinde sert bilim kurgu türünün en önemli yansımaları analiz edilmektedir.

Quantum Gravity Series:
1. Keeping It Real (2006)
2. Selling Out (2007)
3. Going Under (2008)
4. Chasing the Dragon (2009)
5. Down to the Bone (2011)

Stuff Universe Series:
6. Natural History (2003)
7. Living Next Door to the God of Love (2005)

Edebiyatta Posthümanizm

Edebiyatta Posthümanizm, 2020

“Temel bir yapıt. Türk mirasının derin bilgeliği ve bilgisi ile posthüman söylemi arasında – veya... more “Temel bir yapıt. Türk mirasının derin bilgeliği ve bilgisi ile posthüman söylemi arasında – veya tam tersi – köprü kuran bir yapı taşı. Ne olduğumuzun – bireyler olarak, türler olarak, gezegen olarak – daha fazla anlaşılmasına yönelik yerel ve küreselin, dünün, bugünün ve yarının buluştuğu edebi bir gelişim yolculuğu.”
- Francesca Ferrando, New York Üniversitesi, ABD

“Bu çok zamanında ve önemli kitap, yalnızca edebiyat dünyasının geleneksel coğrafi sınırlarını aşmakla kalmıyor, aynı zamanda, gelişen teknolojinin bizi çevreleyen canlı sistemlerle ilgili olarak kendimize bakışımızı nasıl etkilediğine dair derin soruları faydalı bir şekilde ele alıyor.”
- Kevin LaGrandeur, New York Teknoloji Enstitüsü, ABD

“Türk akademisyenler tarafından edebiyatta posthümanizm üzerine tartışmaları bir araya getiren bu yeni kitap, bu projeyi Batı ve Doğu arasındaki geleneksel Avrupa anlayışında başka bir ikiliğine karşı genişletir. Bu yeni kitabın özellikle heyecan verici yanı, hem Anglo-Amerikan hem de Türk romanları hakkındaki tartışmaları bir araya getirmesi ve tartışmayı genellikle ihmal edilen perspektifleri ve tarihleri içerecek şekilde genişletmesidir. Hem Batı hem de Doğu küresel tarihlerinde—Bizans, Selçuklu ve Osmanlı İmparatorluklarının merkezinde— önemli bir rol oynayan coğrafi konum olarak Türkiye’nin zengin tarihi, edebiyat kültürünün çok sayıda kültürel etkiyle benzersiz bir şekilde konuşabilmesini ve post-hümanist düşüncenin bunlara nasıl meydan okuduğunu veya yeniden çerçevelendirdiğini değerlendirmesini sağlar. Bu yeni kitap, yeni tarihsel ve kültürel arşivlerden yararlanarak posthümanizm anlayışımızı genişletmeyi vaat eder ve böylelikle tartışmalar daha küresel hale geldiğinden bu alanda önemli bir yeni sayfa açılmasına işaret eder.”
- Sherryl Vint, Kaliforniya Üniversitesi Riverside, ABD

“Posthüman tanımlamalarından ve ‘sorularından’ edebi formlarda vücut bulmalarına kadar, akademide yer alan genç bilim insanlarının makalelerinin yer aldığı bu kitap, ‘posthümanizmi’ çeşitli türlerle ön plana çıkarıyor. Philip K Dick’inki gibi klasik metinlerden McEwan’ın eserleri gibi daha yeni dönüşlerle sıkı bağ kuran bu cildin en büyük katkısı; felsefi bakış, düşünce ‘okulu’ ve eleştirel görüşler ekseninde posthümanizm hakkındaki tüm ana söylem ve tartışmaların edebi metinlerde her zaman öngörüldüğünü, belgelendiğini ve tartışıldığını göstermesidir. Önümüzdeki uzun yıllar boyunca etkisi sürecek bir cilt.”
- Pramod K. Nayar, Hyderabad Üniversitesi, Hindistan

TechnoFeminist Science Fiction

Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014

Women Academics in Strategic Administrative Positions in Turkey's Higher Education System

Addleton Academic Publishers, 2019

2022 CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE! Call for Chapters

To be edited by Sümeyra Buran and Jiré Emine Gözen. Knowledge and culture are medially conditione... more To be edited by Sümeyra Buran and Jiré Emine Gözen. Knowledge and culture are medially conditioned, crystalised, and perpetuated by narratives in science, art, and literature. Orientalism represents one of these narratives and has constructed the perceptions in which the distinction between the Occident and the Orient culminates. Orientalism has thus created the "other": identities, politics, culture, media, art, literature, and the perceptions that the Occident destabilized. Orientalism has also taken a different shape after Edward Said's Orientalism (1979) 40 years ago, and current perspectives increasingly ask for counter-models. However, these counter-models cannot demand the simple abandonment of universalisms, nor can the discourse on these counter-models be a soliloquy of the Western or the non-Western.

Journal of Posthumanism invites articles for the 2nd issue in 2021!

by Cagdas Dedeoglu and Sumeyra Buran

Journal of Posthumanism, 2021

Deadline: 2 August 2021

Editorial for the Special Issue on Migration, Education, and Youth

Migration Letters, 2022

Youth studies is a growing area within migration scholarship. It is evident that migration of chi... more Youth studies is a growing area within migration scholarship. It is evident that migration of children, unaccompanied children and children within refugee flows are significantly higher than general migration flows. We have evidence of this, for example, in the case of Syrian exodus since the outbreak of civil war in the country in 2011 (Yazgan et al., 2015). Kulu-Glasgow et al. (2019), Vila Freyer & Özerim (2020), and Vila Freyer and Meza Gonzalez (2021) are the recent collections of studies on youth in migration published by Transnational Press London alone. In the last couple of years, hundreds of articles and book chapters on youth migration have been published elsewhere. The Migration Conferences, Migration Letters proudly supports, have offered a venue for discussions on the topic since the beginning in 2011, and it has included a special track on youth migration to foster research in this particular topic.

Posthuman Mysticism: From the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift

SFRA Review Vol. 51, No. 4, 2021

The 2019 Turkish Netflix series The Gift tells the (hi)story of (post)humanity by the archaeologi... more The 2019 Turkish Netflix series The Gift tells the (hi)story of (post)humanity by the archaeological discovery of a gate in Göbeklitepe that leads to parallel universes. Inspired by Şengül Boybaş’s novel The Awakening of the World, the series is about the “mystical” story of a young and beautiful painter named Atiye (meaning gift) who opens the doors to the past and begins to question everything between the past and the future, between the real and the spiritual. The mysterious gate is tied to the extraordinary artifact buried for millennia and to the (her)story of Atiye, who explores her post-Goddess power throughout the history of humankind by her mysterious journey to parallel worlds. The series has a plot that feeds primarily on mysticism, anthropology, and cosmology. I explore the strains of posthuman mystic reception of cosmology in Turkish SF film in the context of the myth of the mother goddess.