Research associate of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Neslihan Demirkol holds an M.A and PhD from Bilkent University. Her MA thesis focuses on the definition of loyalty in literary translations from a cultural perspective. Her Ph.D dissertation criticizes the mainstream discourse of Turkish literary modernization and provides a new perspective to the literary history with emphasize on the literary translations using Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological approach to the dynamics of cultural production. She worked as a lecturer between 2014-2016, and as an assistant professor between 2016-2019 in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey. She spent one year in the Islamic Studies Department within the Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich, for her postdoctoral studies as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder for the 2018-2019 academic year. Demirkol was a member of the Expert Committee for Intercultural Dialogue of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO between 2008 and 2013. She has been a member of ÇEVBİR (Professional Association of Translators) since 2006. She has been on the editorial board of Kebikeç, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of humanities and social sciences, since 2011; and fe journal, an in-ternational peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of feminist critique and gender studies, since 2018. She works for the CMO project since September 2019.
“Geç On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Osmanlı Matbuat Alanının Gintis’in İnançlar, Tercihler ve Kısıtlar (İTK) Modeli Çerçevesinde Yorumlama Denemesi” in Hangi İnsanDavranış Bilimlerinde Rasyonalite, Sosyal Tercihler ve Oyun Teorisi. Edited by Erkan Gürpınar. Ankara: Efil Yayınevi, 2022: 107-128.
with Mehmet Kalpaklı. “The New Image of the Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition in Modern Turkish Poetry”. in Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetry at the Confluence of Africa, Asia and Europe. Edited by Stefan Sperl and Yorgos Dedes. London: British Academy, 2022: 433–453. http://lyrics-of-ascent.net/
with Mehmet Kalpaklı. “Two Perspectives, One Scheherazade: Turkish Poetry and The 1001 Nights”. in Endless Inspiration: One Thousand and One Nights in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Orhan Elmaz. Gorgias Press, 2020: 93-114.