English Studies

Mehmet Ali Çelikel graduated from the Department of English Linguistics of Hacettepe University in 1993. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Hertfordshire in England in 1997, before receiving his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2001, with a thesis entitled “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy”. He published a book on post-colonial novel in Turkish, titled Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity in Postcolonial English Novel], in 2011. He currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature of Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.Baysar Taniyan graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature of Pamukkale University in 2006. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University in 2009, before receiving his PhD from the same university in 2014, with a thesis entitled “The Postmodern Re-Making of History: A Metahistorical Study of Julian Barnes’ Fiction”. He currently works as a Research Assistant at the Department of English Language and Literature of Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.