Ali Gunes

Sobre mí

Ali Gunes took his first English language and literature degree at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1991. He began his academic career as a Research Assistant at Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey, in July 1993. He completed his “Diploma in English Literature” with “Distinction” at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland, UK, in 1994 with the thesis titled “The Use of Modern Symbols in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” He earned his PhD in 1999 at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England, with the thesis “Virginia Woolf’s Conception of the Subject: Modernist Fluidity or Romantic Visionary?”

Ali Gunes worked for Kafkas University as an assistant professor of English literature in the Department of English Language and Literature. They were the department’s founder, head, and faculty member from 1999 to 2007. In September 2007, he started working for the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. First, he was the English language and literature program coordinator, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from March 2008 to January 2010. Later, Ali Gunes was employed at Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey, in September 2010. He was promoted to the title of professor in 2012. He taught English literature in this university’s English Language and Literature department and was vice-rector at Karabuk University from 2014 to 2018. In July 2018, Ali Gunes moved to the Social Sciences University of Ankara as a full professor. Later, he worked for Istanbul Selahattin Zaim University and Ankara Medipol University; currently, he works for the University of New York Tirana, Albania.

His research interests include areas and genres of English literature such as literary criticism, literary theory, women’s studies, and cultural and political studies. He is the author of the books Dark Fields of Civilization: A Cultural and Ideological Approach to the Issue of Women in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, published by Orient in 2007, and Modernism in English Literature: A Reader, published by Savas Yayinevi in 2012. He is also the co-author of Medical Passages & Vocabulary, published by Hacettepe-Tas in 2002. Moreover, he has published various articles and delivered conference papers in Turkey and elsewhere on the English language and literature.

Líneas de investigación

English Literature, Modernist English Literature, Women and Cultural Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.

Resultados destacables

As a Turkish academic and scholar, I found chance to learn and study a froeign language and literature, including history, culture and so on. It has obviously enriched my understanding of foreign language, cultures and history, along with their view of life, worldview and how they differ from that of other cultures and society. In addition, I have had chance to compare Trukish culture and English culture concerning their similarities and differences, which definitely not only enriched and expanded my experience and ways of thinking but also enabled me to see how human beings act similarly in certain situations. Finally, but not least, I have had chance to compare the west and the rest during my colonial and postcolonial research.

Vocación

Curiosity, and it still continues to occupy my mind. Desire to learn and learn.

Deseo científico

I am very much interested in cross-cultural projects because I really strive to understand other cultures, how people of other societies and cultures think and view the world. I believe that understanding each other will heal the wounds, demolish prejudices and stereotypes, enable us to establish empathy, and eventually make the world peaceful and just.