Talks, Presentations & Workshops

(with Valerie Kennedy) ‘ “I Find This is not the Land of Harmony”: Publishing Henrietta Liston’s Travel Journals (1812-1820)’,  Department of English Language and Literature Research Seminar, Bilkent University, Ankara (15 November, 2018)

(with Pelin Doğan) ‘Beyond Belief: the Bezhti affair and the violence of censorship in Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s Behud’.  Talk at an unofficial event to discuss the issue of violence against women, held in memory of Imran Kandemir at Pamukkale University, Denizli (12 October, 2018)

‘The Academic Discourse Socialisation of English Literature students through Literature Circles’, co-authored with Gunes Tunc and Deniz Ortactepe, Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Chicago (24-27 March, 2018)

‘Reading the Sottish Renaissance: a workshop for graduate students’, Hacettepe University, Ankara (22 November, 2017) – invited speaker

‘Publishing in the Humanities: an editor’s view,’ University of Edinburgh workshop, co-funded by the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities and the AHRC-funded ‘Academic Book of the Future’ initiative (21 September, 2016) – invited speaker

‘Cesare deve morire: Julius Caesar and metadaptation’, BAAHE Annual ‘Adaptation’ conference, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels. (4 December, 2015)

‘In Provence, Kent and Christendom: Luigi Alamanni and Wyatt’s feeling Stoicism’, Seventh International IDEA Conference, Pamukkale University (17 April, 2013)

(Seminar co-convenor, with Dr. Theo van Heijnsbergen) ‘The New Seventeenth Century: Literature and Genre in Britain and Ireland, 1603-1660’. 11th ESSE Conference, Istanbul (7 September, 2012)

‘Virtuous Circles: the use of modified Literature Circles in the undergraduate L2 literature classroom’ INTE 2012 (International Conference on New Horizons in Education), Prague (6 June, 2012)

‘Performing George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris in Istanbul’. Invited contribution to ‘Early Modern Texts in Performance’, Edinburgh University Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (26 January, 2012)

‘Al suon de l’acque scriva! Fluvial Petrarchism in Renaissance Scotland’, Sixth International IDEA Conference, İstanbul Kültür University (14 April, 2011)

‘Voglie divise : William Drummond of Hawthornden and Petrarchan national sentiment in the wake of the Union of the Crowns’. Dis/placing the British Empire: Theoretical and Critical Views from Scottish Studies, ESSE 10, Università degli Studi di Torino (26 August, 2010)

‘Between Public and Private: Lady Mary Wroth’s Petrarchism’, Postgraduate Research Seminar Talk, Strathclyde University (9 April, 2009)