Prof. Dr. Himmet UMUNÇ (Chair)
E-Mail: umunch@hacettepe.edu.tr
umunch@yahoo.com
URL: www.ide.hacettepe.edu.tr
Academic Titles
Professor: (1987, English Language and Literature, Middle East
Technical University; 1992, English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University)
Associate Professor: (1981, English Language and Literature,
Hacettepe University)
Assistant Professor: (In the pre-1982 Turkish university system,
assistant professorship was not used as an academic title.)
Lecturer: (1974-1981, English Language and Literature,
Hacettepe University)
Research Assistant: (1968-1974, English Language and
Literature, Hacettepe University)
Academic Degrees
Ph.D.: (1974, English Language and Literature, University of London
[King’s College])
Title of Ph.D Thesis: “The Many and the One in The Faerie
Queene: A Study of Interrelating Patterns”
M.A.: (Required preliminary graduate courses completed, passed,
qualification examination for admission to the Ph.D. programme
and admitted directly to the Ph.D. programme)
Title of M.A. Thesis: N/A
B.A.: (1967, Department of English Language and Literature,
Faculty of Letters, Ankara University)
Research Interests
English Language and Literature, British History and Cultural Studies, American Culture and Literature, Art and Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Literary Theory and Criticism, Classical Greek Literature and Philosophy (in translation), Latin Language and Literature, Neo-Latin Literary Writings, Comparative Cultural Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Turkish-British Relations in History, Turkish-Dutch Relations Before the XVIIIth Century, English Travel Writings about Turkey, European Representations of Turkey and the Turks.
Major Publications
1. “Spenser’in Beden Allegorileri [Spenser’s Allegories of the Body].” Yazında
ve Çeviride Beden (Akşit Göktürk’ü Anma Toplantısı 15-17 Mart 2006 Bildirileri). İstanbul Üniversitesi Rektörlük Yayınları, 4674. İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2007: 7-19.
2. “The Other Geography: Representations of the Turkish Landscape in
English Travel Writings.” Belleten LXXI, 261 (August, 2007): 721- 43 (An expanded version of the paper originally presented at the Fourth International Conference in English on “The Endangered Planet in Literature.” Doğuş University, İstanbul. 16-18 November 2005).
3. “Doğu ile Ötekiliğin Bileşimi: Lady Montagu ve Richard Chandler’da Türk
Kimliği [An Amalgam of the East and Otherness: The Turkish Image in Lady Montagu and Richard Chandler]” Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity]. Proceedings of 3rd International Cultural Studies Symposium. Koç University and Cultural Studies Association, İstanbul. 14-17 June 2005. Forthcoming.
4. “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Marlowe and Turkey.” Belleten LXX, 259
(December, 2006): 903-18.
5. “Hemingway in Turkey: Historical Contexts and Cultural Intertexts.” Belleten, LXIX, 255 (August, 2005): 629-42.
6. “Where More Is Meant: The Hermeneutics of Re-Reading Shakespeare.” Tribute to Oya Başak: [Re]Reading Shakespeare in Text and Performance. Selected Papers from the Oya Başak Conference, May 12-14, 2004. Ed. Aslı Tekinay. İstanbul: Boğaziçi UP, 2005: 110-18.
7. "On the Edge of the Civilised World: Cyrus Hamlin and the American Missionary Work in Turkey." Belleten LXVIII, 253 (December, 2004): 671-85 (A revised and expanded version of the paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action [ARNOVA], 16-18 November 2000, New Orleans, USA).
8. “Civilizing the Other: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and the British Imperial Ideology.” Civilization and British Literature: Interaction and Impact. Ankara: METU, 2001:110-115 (Originally presented as a paper at the 21st All-Turkey English Literature Conference, Middle East Technical University, Ankara. 19-21 April 2000.).
9. “Balat’ta Bir İngiliz Şövalyesi: Beylikler Döneminde Batı ile İlişkiler [An English Knight at ‘Palatye’: Relations with the West during the Beyliks Period].” XIII.Türk Tarih Kongresi: Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler [XIIIth Turkish History Congress: Papers Presented at the Congress]3 vols. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu [Turkish Historical Society], 2002: III, 1-10.
10. “‘Vergilius Örneği’: Rönesans İngiliz Edebiyatında Tür ve Üslûp Sorunu [‘Exemplum Vergilianum’: Problematics of Genre and Style in Renaissance English Poetics].” Frankofoni 15 (2003): 327- 40.
11. “Us and Them: The Idea of Otherness in T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and F.R. Atay’s Zeytin Dağı [Mount Olive].” Cultural Encounters and Cultural Differences. Ankara: Hacettepe University Research Centre for British Literature and Culture, 1999: 213-26.
12.“‘Decima Musarum:’ Anna Komnena’nın Aleksias’ı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme [‘Decima Musarum:’ A Critique of Anna Comnena’s Alexiad]. Belleten LXIV, 239 (April, 2000): 43-49.
13. “Instituting British Cultural Studies in Turkey: Paradigms and Pragmatics.” Journal of English Literature and British Culture 5 (1996):123-31 (An expanded version of the paper presented at the Second British Studies Conference on “Cultural Learning: Language Learning.” The British Council, Prague, The Czech Republic. 18-20 October 1996).
14. “Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’: A Cultural Polysemy.” Crossing the Boundaries: Cultural Studies in the UK and the US: Proceedings of the Cultural Studies Conference, Ege University, 16-17 May 1996. Izmir, Turkey: Ege University, 1997:9-15.
15. “David Lodge’s Small World : A Mosaic of Intertexts.” British Fiction from the 70’s to the Present: Proceedings of the Seventeenth All-Turkey English Literature Conference,10-12 April 1996. Sivas, Turkey: Cumhuriyet University, 1996:181-93.
16. “Sidney’s Sonnet 1: An Epitome of His Literary Policy.” Journal of English Language and Literature 4 (December, 1995):113-16.
17. “‘This Shepherd’s Life’: The Renaissance English Pastoral.” Journal of
English Language and Literature 2 (December, 1994):127-42.
18. “The Higher Education System in Turkey: The Past and the Present.”
Euromecum.Stuttgart: Raabe Verlag, 1993: 1-36.
19. “The Universal Values of Atatürk’s Educational Policy.” Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi [Journal of the Atatürk Research Centre] VIII, 22 (1991): 33-7. Reprinted in The Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Atatürk. 2 vols. Ankara: Atatürk Research Centre, 1996. I, 389-94.
20. “Chrysogone.” The Spenser Encyclopedia. Ed. A.C. Hamilton et al.
Toronto: U of Toronto P: London: Routledge, 1990: 153.
21. “Sir Philip Sidney and Literary Criticism in Renaissance England.” Journal of Human Sciences VIII, 1 (1989): 107-18. [A Middle East Technical University publication].
22. “In Search of Improvement: The Organisation of Higher Education in
Turkey.” Minerva XXIV (Winter, 1986): 433-55.
23. “Batılılar Gözüyle Türkler ve Türkiye: Tarih Içinde Bir Değerlendirme [The Turks and Turkey through the Western Eyes: An Appraisal in History].” Türk Dili [The Turkish Language] 51 (June, 1986): 417-39.
24. “The Renaissance Idea of Tragedy: Theory and Practice.” Tragedy: Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the Sixth All-Turkey English Literature Conference. 10-12 April 1985. Ankara: Middle East Technical University, 1985. 180-86.
25. “Yaşar Kemal Araştırmalarına Önemli Bir Katkı [A Major Contribution to the Yaşar Kemal Studies]. Yeni Forum [The New Forum] 62 (1 April 1982); 63 (15 April 1982) [A review article on the special Yaşar Kemal issue of University of Pennsylvania’s journal Edebiyat].
26. “Spenser’s Chrysogone and ‘The Sun’s Faire Sister.’” Hacettepe University Bulletin of Humanities X, 4 (June, 1981): 32-5. Cited in Spenser Newsletter XV, 1(Winter, 1984): 16-17.
27. “Spenser’s Angel and Cupid.” Hacettepe University Bulletin of Humanities X, 3 (June, 1980): 1-11. Cited in Spenser Newsletter XIV, 3 (fall, 1983): 72-3.
28. “A Veiled Language: The Classical Origins of Renaissance Allegory.”
Hacettepe University Bulletin of Humanities X, 2 (June, 1979):104-18.
29. “Mimesis: Aristoteles’in Şiire Yaklaşımı [Mimesis: Aristotle’s Approach to Poetry].” Batı Edebiyatları Araştırma Dergisi [Journal of Studies in Western Literatures] 2 (Autumn, 1979): 14-20. Reprinted in Frankofoni [Le Francophone] 5 (1993): 209-22. [Both are the department journals of Hacettepe University].
30. “‘Eski Bir Kavga:’ Platon’da Şiir ve Felsefe Çatışması [‘An Ancient Quarrel:’ The Conflict of Poetry and Philosophy in Plato].” Batı Edebiyatları Araştırma Dergisi [Journal of Studies in Western Literatures] 1 (Spring, 1979): 7-20. Reprinted in Frankofoni [Le Francophone] 5 (1993): 209-22.
31. “Divided Existence: An Interpretation of Blake’s Mythopoecism in The Book of Urizen.” Hacettepe Bulletin of Social Sciences and Humanities
II, 2 (December, 1970): 247-57.
Recent Conference Papers
1. “The Dutch in the Levant: Trade and Travel in the Seventeenth Century.”
International Conference on “Orient and Occident: East Meets West in Istanbul.” Nederlands Instituut in Turkije, İstanbul, 25-26 June 2008.
2.“Türkiye’de Hollandalı Bir Seyyah: Cornelis de Bruyn ve Gözlemleri [A
Dutch Traveller in Turkey: Cornelis de Bruyn and His Observations].” Public Lecture. Nederlands Instituut voor Hoger Onderwijs [NIHA], Ankara. 03 April 2008 (Publication forthcoming)
3. “ ‘Tongues in Trees’: Shakespeare and the Environment.” International
Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability. Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus, 19-24 February 2007.
4.“Boş Hayal Peşinde. T.E. Lawrence ve Arap İsyanı Üzerine Bir
Değerlendirme [In Pursuit of A Futile Fantasy: A Critique of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt].” XVth Congress of Turkish History. Turkish Historical Society, Ankara, 11-15 September 2006 (Publication forthcoming)
5.“Spenser’in Beden Allegorileri [Spenser’s Allegories of the Body].” Akşit
Göktürk’ü Anma Toplantısı [The Akşit Göktürk In Memoriam Conference], Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, İstanbul University, İstanbul, 16-17 March 2006) (Published).
6. "Where More is Meant: The Hermeneutics of Re-Reading Shakespeare."
International Oya Başak Conference. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 12-14 May 2004 (Published).
7. “Amerikan Büyükelçisi Henry Morgenthau’nun Türkiye’ye Bakışı:
Diplomasinin Öteki Yüzü [American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s View of Turkey: The Other Side of Diplomacy].” XIV. Türk Tarih Kongresi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Ankara, 9-13 Eylül 2002.
8. “Y.K. Karaosmanoğlu’s Bir Sürgün: The Turkish Modernity, Self-
Displacement, and the Problematics of Identity.” Ege University 7th Cultural Studies Conference, 8-Ege University, İzmir, 10 May 2002.
9. “Modernite ve Kültür Araştırmaları: Ölçütler ve Yaklaşımlar [Modernity and Cultural Studies: Parameters and Attitudes].” Türkiye Kültür
Araştırmaları Konferansı, Göynük, Antalya, 25-27 Ekim 200l.
10. “On the Edge of the Civilized World: Cyrus Hamlin and the American
Missionary Work in Turkey.” ARNOVA Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action 29th Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA,16-18 November, 2000 (Published).
11.“Shakespeare Their Contemporary: Hermeneutic Conjectures in the New Millennium.” Ege University 5th Cultural Studies Conference, Çeşme, Izmir, Turkey. 10-12 May 2000.
12. “A Deconstructive Reading of ‘My Last Duchess.’” Public Lecture.
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Ankara. 25 April 2000.
13. “Chaucer ve Türkiye [Chaucer and Turkey].” Second Akşit Göktürk In Memoriam Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, Istanbul. 24-25 February 2000.
14. “Rönesans Sanatı ve Yorumu [Renaissance Art and Its Interpretation].” Public Lecture. Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Bilkent University, Ankara. 26 November 1999.
15. “Edebiyat Nedir? Ne Değildir? [What is, and What is not, Literature?].” Public Lecture. Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Bilkent University, Ankara. 9 November 1999. (Also given as a public lecture at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey. 12 May 2000).
16. “Cultural Paradigms of the Anti-Turkish Attitude in the West: Anglo-American Travel Writings about Turkey in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Cultural Studies Conference. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. 13-15 May 1999.
17. “In the Land of the Sunrise: Turkey and the Turks through the American Eyes in the Nineteenth Century.” 23rd Annual American Studies Conference on “American Visions: America’s Vision of Herself, America’s Vision of the World, and the World’s Vision of America.” Mersin, Turkey. 4-7 November 1998.
18. “Higher Education and British Studies in Turkey.” Symposium on the State of British Studies in Turkey. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. 28 November 1997.
19. “The Land of Plenty and Freedom: The Changing Vision of America in the Colonial Period.” 22nd Annual American Studies Conference on “Freedom in America: The Principle, The Theme, The Reality.” Mersin, Turkey. 5-8 November 1997.
20. “The Jews and the Turks in Renaissance England: The Hermeneutics of Negative Stereotyping.” Cultural Studies Conference on “Turkey, Britain, and America: The History of Culture: The Culture of History.” Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. 7-9 May 1997.
21. “Türk Dili ve Türk Cumhuriyetleri [The Turkish Language and the Turkish Republics].”Panel Discussion, Faculty of Engineering, Erciyes University, Yozgat, Turkey. 22 May 1996.
22. “Kitle Edebiyatı [Mass Literature].” Panel Discussion. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. 23 March 1995.
23. “British Cultural Studies Programme at Hacettepe University: Contents and Objectives.” British Cultural Studies Seminar. The British Council, Ankara, Turkey.
15-17 March 1995.
24. “Eleştiride ve Edebiyat Araştırmalarında ‘Yeni Tarihselcilik’ Yaklaşımı [The New Historicist Approach in Criticism and Literary Studies].” Public Lecture. Hacettepe University,Ankara, Turkey. 23 December 1994.
25. “The Colonial Origins of American Multiculturalism: A Historical Perspective.” 19th Annual American Studies Conference, Çeşme, Izmir, Turkey. 19-22 October 1994.
26. “Arcadia and Arcadianism in Renaissance Literature.” Fourteenth All-Turkey English Literature Conference. Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. 14-16 April 1993.
27. “From the Empire to the Republic: Atatürk’s Educational Policy.” Sixth International Conference on the Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1326-1960. Aix-en-Provence, France. 1-4 July 1992.
28. “Sub Tegmine Fabularum: Teaching Literature in the Classroom.” Eleventh All-Turkey English Literature Conference. Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey. 26-29 March 1990.
29. “Literary Criticism in Turkey.” Public Lecture. Turkish Language Institute, Ankara, Turkey. 22 December 1988.
30. “The Exotic Orient: Corneille le Brun and Turkey.” Xth Turkish History Congress. Turkish Historical Society, Ankara, Turkey. 22-26 September 1986.
31. “The Poets at the Crossroads: the Conflicting Attitudes in Victorian Poetry.” Third All-Turkey English Literature Conference, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey. 7-10 April 1982.
Hobbies
Classical Turkish music, Turkish folk music, classical European music, jogging, travel, drawing and painting.