Dr. Alev KARADUMAN
E-Mail: baysal@hacettepe.edu.tr
URL: www.ide.hacettepe.edu.tr
Academic Titles
Lecturer Dr.: (2004, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Research Assistant: (1995-2003, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Academic Degrees
Ph.D.: (2003, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Title of Ph.D Thesis: “Dickens’s Fiction and Facts of History: A Study of Gordon Riots in Barnaby Rudge and The French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities.”
M.A.: (1996, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Title of M.A. Thesis: “The Reformed Heroine Tradition in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story, Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary: A Fiction and Wrongs of Women or, Maria: A Fragmant, and Jane Austen’s Emma.”
B.A.: (1986, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Research Interests
British Cultural Studies, Colonial and Post Colonial British Literature, 18th - 19th - 20th century British Novel and Non-fiction, Travel writing.
Major Publications
1. “The Reformed Heroine Tradition in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story.” Hacettepe University,Journal of Faculty of Letters. 5 (1996): 79-93.
2. “Virginia Woolf and Her Work.” British Novelist Series (March 1997). Proceedings of the Fifth METU British Novelists Seminar 13-14 March 1997. Ed. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sevda Çalýþkan. Ankara: METU, 1997: 125-133
3. “A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens’ Interest in History and Carlyle’s Influences.” Hacettepe University, Journal of Faculty of Letters. 10 (2003): 1-17.
4. “18.Yüzyýl Ýngiltere’sinde Tarih Yazým Kuramlarý ve Tarihi Roman.” Littera, 17 (2005):71-78.
5. “Tocqueville’s Idea of Revolution and D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow: A Study of Social Change and the Liberation of Women.” Hacettepe University, Journal of Faculty of Letters. 23 1 (2006):191-205.
6. “Male and Female Vision of Life in Mrs. Dalloway”. “Virginia Woolf and Her Work.” British Novelist Series (March 1997). Proceedings of the Fifth METU British Novelist Seminar 13-14 March 1997. Ed. Prof. Dr. Sevda Çalýþkan. Ankara:METU,1997:1997:125-133.
7. “Batýlýlar Gözüyle Harem: Gerçek ve Fantezi”. Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic 4/1-I Winter 2009:591-603.
Recent Conference Papers
1. “Homi Bhabha’s Concept of Mimicry in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and George Orwell’s Burmese Days.” Studies in English I. Boðaziçi University, IDEA, Ýstanbul, 24-26 April 2006.
2.“Reader Response Theory and Environmental Awareness.” Environment: Survival and Sustainability. Near East University, Cyprus, 19-25 Feb 2007.
3.“The Fictionalization of the Harem in English Writings.” Studies in English II. Hacettepe University, IDEA, Ankara, 17-19 Apr 2007.
4. “The East versus the West: Samuel Johnson’s Cultural Solipsism in Rasselas (1759)”. Fourth International IDEA Conference, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, 15-17 April 2009.
5. “Dickens’s Social Historicism: The Plight of Orphans in Victorian England”. “International Conference: Dickens and the Voices of Victorian Culture.” Verona, Italy, June 8-10 2009.
Book Review
1. Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback, 295pp. ISBN: 9780521541015. “Senses,” 2007-2008 issue.
2. David Paroissen (Ed). A Companion to Charles Dickens. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. Paperback, xvii+515pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3097-4.
Hobbies
Riding bicycle, swimming, drawing, glass painting, taking photograph.