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Jeannette E. Okur
University of Texas at Austin
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of Texas at Austin
204 W 21ST ST F9400 Calhoun, 509
Austin TX 78712
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Pedagogy
Turkish
Education
Translation
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Europe
Kurdistan
Specialties
Diaspora/Transnatl Turkish Lit
Mod/Contemp Turkish Lit
Teaching Cult In For Lang/Lit Classroom
Languages
German (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
Kurmanji (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2007 | German Lang & Lit | Ankara U
MA | 2001 | German Lang & Lit | U of Wisconsin, Madison
MS | 1997 | Curriculum & Instruction (Educ) | U of Tennessee, Knoxville
Abstracts
Goat Herders and Grape Gatherers: The Portrayal of Anatolian Mountain Village Women's Interaction with the Natural Environment in Contemporary Turkish Film Re-Telling the Classic: Postmodern Narrative Elements in Nazan Bekiroglu’s Yûsuf ile Züleyha – Kalbin Üzerinde Titreyen Hüzün [Yusuf and Zulaikha – The Sadness Hovering over the Heart] Turkic Muslims’ Literary Response to the Uninvited Russian “Guest” State Perpetrators of Violence and Political Victims in Müge Iplikçi’s Kafdagi and Mehmed Uzun’s Ask Gibi Aydinlik Ölüm Gibi Karanlik Art and Justice in Bakhtiyar Ali’s Shari Mosiqare Spiyekan Splintered Collectivity, Despair and Hope in Firat Ceweri’s Birini Öldüreceğim and Lehî Kurdish Prison Literature Goes Mainstream in Turkey