Assist. Prof. Dr. Şebnem KAYA

E-Mail: sebnemk@hacettepe.edu.tr
URL: www.ide.hacettepe.edu.tr

Academic Titles

Assistant Professorship: Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University (1998-     )

Research Assistantship: Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University (1994-1998)

Academic Degrees

Ph.D: 1998, Institute of Social Sciences, Hacettepe University (Field of Study: English Language and Literature)

Title of Ph.D Thesis: “An Evaluation of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Faith Healer and Translations”

M.A.: 1993, Institute of Social Sciences, Hacettepe University (Field of Study: English Language and Literature)

Title of M.A. Thesis: “The Woman Question as Reflected in Katherine Mansfield’s Selected Short Stories”

B.A.: 1990, Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University

Research Interests

Drama, cultural studies, translation

  Publications

Copyrighted Material :
Drake ve Şeytan Çarmıhı. [Drake and Jacob’s Ladder] Ankara: Phoenix, 2008.

Articles:
“A Sociohistorical Reading of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West.” Interactions (Ege University) 16.1 (2007): 109-21.

“Consequences of Imprisonment in John Galsworthy’s Justice.” Journal of Faculty of Letters(Hacettepe University) 24.1 (2007): 121-35.

“Ölüme Hayat Çalmak: Seamus Heaney’nin ‘Bataklık Şiirleri.’” [“Adding Life to Death: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Bog Poems’”] Littera: Edebiyat Yazıları 18 (2006): 131-40.

“John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Seain Terms of Epistemology.” Journal of Faculty ofLetters(Hacettepe University) 22.1 (2005): 155-68.

“Responses to Changeover in Robert Bolt’s A Man for all Seasons.” Journal of BritishLiterature and Culture (Hacettepe University) 10 (2003): 77-91.

“The Artist on His Way to Degradation in Nick Dear’s The Art of Success.” Journal of British Literature and Culture (Hacettepe University) 9 (2002): 56-65.

“Socio-cultural Formation and Its Effects as Reflected in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!” Journal of English Language and British Culture (Hacettepe University) 8 (1999-2000): 58-69.

“A Many-Sided Paralysis in Northern Ireland: Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City.” Journal of English Language and British Culture (Hacettepe University) 7 (1998): 85-97.

“The Ghost in Hamlet: Mirroring Elizabethan Beliefs.” Journal of English Language and British Culture (Hacettepe University) 6 (1997): 29-36.

“Time in All Its Multiplicity in T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land.’” Journal of English Language and British Culture (Hacettepe University) 5 (1996): 1-7.

Conference Papers

“Accounts of Piracy in English Renaissance Texts.” The Second International IDEA Conference: Studies in English. Hacettepe University, April 18, 2007.

“Cross Cultural Notes.” Tuesday Talks. Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, November 31, 1999.

“Joking to the Bitter End: Tom Stoppard.” 18th All-Turkey English Literature Conference. Bilkent University, April 10, 1997.

Theses Supervised

Doğanay, Sibel. “Joe Orton’s Critique of Middle-Class Manners in Loot and What the Butler Saw.” MA Thesis. Hacettepe University, 2008.

Yelmiş, İmren. “Fragmentation and Identity in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain and Pantomime.” MA Thesis. Hacettepe University, 2007.

Taşer, Aslı. “Tom Stoppard’s Playful Approach to Intellectuality: A Study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties.” MA Thesis. Hacettepe University, 2007.

Varol, Devrim Ö. “On the Road to Emancipation: A Study of Women’s Choices in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, Candida and Pygmalion.” MA Thesis. Hacettepe University, 2006.

Büyüktuncay, Mehmet. “A Study of Samuel Beckett’s Solipsistic Antiheroes: Decentralisation of the Self in Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.” MA Thesis. Hacettepe University, 2005.