Lale Demirtürk
	Email: dturk bilkent.edu.tr Contact Number: +90 (312) 290 1723 Office: G-115 Title: Associate Professor Department of American Culture and Literature Bilkent University 06800 Bilkent Ankara, Turkey	Course Syllabi Curriculum Vitae Short Profile Publications and Research

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Lale Demirturk received her M.A. from the American Studies, the University of Iowa, in July 1982. She also received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa in 1986. Her dissertation on immigrant women's autobiographies, Female Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Immigrant Women's Autobiographies was published by UMI in 1987. She has published various articles on 20th century American novels, and especially on the novels of Richard Wright. She has taught undergraduate classes on 19th and 20th c. American novel. Her book, Modern African American Novel (in Turkish) came out in 1997. Some of her articles have appeared in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, College Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, and Melus. Her current research interests are on contemporary African American novel and postcolonial theory. She is currently working on a book-length project on the African American novel. Her book, entitled How Black Writers Deal with Whiteness: Characterization Through Deconstructing Color was published by The Edwin Mellen Press in May 2008.