Ceydanur Temurok

Ceydanur Temurok received her bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature with a specialisation in Comparative Literature from Yeditepe University and Philosophy as a minor (2019). During her bachelor’s degree, she also studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2017) as an Erasmus student. After her graduation from Yeditepe University, she continued her studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she received her master’s degree in the Greek Elements in Anglophone Literature (2021). Ceydanur's thesis, entitled “Identities (Re)Constructed in Exile: Hybridity and Displacement in Louis de Bernières’s Birds Without Wings (2004) and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex (2002)”, focuses on the hybridity of cultural identity. After her master’s, she also took courses on the History of Communication, Communication and Mass Communication Theories. Ceydanur's areas of interest include diaspora studies, postcolonial literature, comparative literature, cultural studies, identity discourses, migration, multiculturalism, classical literature, revisionist myth making, romantic literature, Victorian literature, and Shakespeare. She is an American Literature Representative of South Central Modern Language Association. In addition to her background in academia, Ceydanur also has experience teaching English. She worked in an administrative position as an International Relations specialist at Istinye University.  She is currently a PhD student and a member of MERLIT research group at VUB. Her research focuses on meritocratic narratives in postmigrant novels, under the supervision of Prof. Eva Ulrike Pirker.