Department & University: Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Brief summary of research interests:
Prof. Dr. Ayşe Naz Bulamur teaches in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has articles on the works of British, American, and Turkish writers, such as Margaret Fuller, Hannah W. Foster, Elisabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, A. S. Byatt, Julia Kristeva, Elif Şafak, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Martin Amis. She is the author of Victorian Murderesses: The Politics of Female Violence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). Her research focuses on postcolonial theory, urban theory, feminist criticism, and nineteenth-century and contemporary fiction. She is currently working on representations of the Spanish Civil War in Laurie Lee’s autobiographical novel A Moment of War (1991).
Selected publications:
Articles: “Women as Boundary Markers between Islam and Secularism in Julia Kristeva’s Murder in Byzantium and Elif Şafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul.” Religion & Literature. 54.3 (2022/Published in 2023): 77-96.
“Artifice of Love in Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.” American Literary Realism 54.2 (2022): 150-169.
“The Ambivalence of the Turban in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford.” The CEA Critic 83.3 (2021): 219-234.
“Narratives of Korea and Dersim in Erendiz Atasü’s The Other Side of the Mountain.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 18.2 (2020): 281-301.
“Love as a Contact Zone in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982).” The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 14.2 (2014): 219-233.
Book: Victorian Murderesses: The Politics of Female Violence. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2016.
Personal Website: https://academics.boun.edu.tr/naz.bulamur