Selin Yurdakul

Dr. Lecturer, Ordu University


Selin Yurdakul obtained her BA degree in 2008 from the Department of English Language and Literature at Dumlupınar University (Kütahya/Türkiye) and MA degree in 2015 from the Department of English Language and Literature at Atılım University (Ankara/Türkiye) with a thesis titled “The Representation of Feminist Dystopia in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night”. Having her master degree, she got her PhD degree in 2023 from the Department of English Language and Literature at İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University (İstanbul/Türkiye) with a dissertation titled “Through the Lens of Ecofeminism: Hall’s The Carhullan Army, Lessing’s The Cleft, and Smiley’s A Thousand Acres”. Her research interests focus on cultural studies, gender studies, 19th – 20th century British Novel, ecocriticism, utopian and dystopian fiction.

Publications

Articles published in international refereed journals

Yurdakul, S. (2024). Haruki Murakami: A global literary journey from Japan to the world. ODU Journal of Social Sciences Research, 14(3), 1002–1012. https://doi.org/10.48146/odusobiad.1529703

Yurdakul, S. (2024). The power of a reader: From the perspectives of Norman Holland and Wolfgang Iser. Pedagogical Perspective, 3(1), 81–89. https://doi.org/10.29329/pedper.2024.52

Yurdakul, S. (2019). The other side of the coin: The otherness of Bertha / Antoinette Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. British and American Studies Journal, 25, 63–69. https://bas.journals.uvt.ro/wpcontent/uploads/2022/05/bas_2019.pdf

Book Chapters

Yurdakul, S. (2024). In The Age of Digital Surveillance: Dave Eggers’ The Circle. In O. Bakşi Yalçın (Ed.), Selected Student Essays II (pp. 169–187). PA Paradigma Akademi.

Papers Presented at International Conferences

Yurdakul, S. (2024, May 30 – June 1). Exploring Feminist Themes with Symbols in Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”. International Congress of Integrated Social Research and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISRIS 2024). Batumi, Georgia.

Yurdakul, S. (2024, May 24-26). Haruki Murakami: A Global Literary Journey from Japan to the World. Söylem 3. International Philology Symposium. Akyaka, Muğla, Türkiye.

Yurdakul, S. (2023, September 25-26). Language as a Means of Hegemony in
Translations by Brian Friel. 9th International KTUDELL Conference: Language, Literature and Translation. Trabzon, Türkiye

Yurdakul, S. (2018). The Other Side of the Coin. 14th ESSE Conference, Brno, The Czech Republic