Bilkent University

 DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN
CULTURE & LITERATURE

FACULTY

Edward Kohn, Acting Chair, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., History, McGill University, 2000. US History, 20th century US foreign relations.

Dennis Bryson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., History, University of California, Irvine, 1993. 20th century US cultural, intellectual, and social history. Critical theory, history of the foundations and social sciences in the US, family and gender history.

Ayşe Çelikkol, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., English, Rice University, 2006. 19th century British and American literature, history of liberalism and globalization, philosophy of aesthetics.

E. Lale Demirtürk, Associate Professor, Ph.D., American Studies, University of Iowa, 1986. Modern African-American novel, American novel, 1865-1945.

Craig Ireland, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Theory and Epistemology of Literature, Universite de Montreal, 2000. Social and literary theory, public sphere theory, Western Marxism, Cultural Studies, 18th to 20th-century Western intellectual and cultural history.

Megan Kelley, Instructor, Ph.D., American History, York University, 2006. American History, cinematography, race, class, sexuality and gender identities.

Torey Liepa, Instructor, Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, 2008. Film and media history and theory, American cultural studies, film historiography, genre, narrative, popular cinema and global culture industries.

Muammer Sanli, Instructor, Ph.D., American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 1999. American poetry, Vietnam War literature, Native American literature.