Dr. Meltem Gürle

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Short Biography

With advanced degrees in philosophy and literature, Meltem Gürle is a comparative literature scholar whose focus is on the genre of the Bildungsroman, with a particular interest in the relationship of twentieth-century Turkish literature to the modernist masterpieces of the West. Her research areas also include nineteenth century German philosophy, theories of the novel, and contemporary Irish literature. She taught as lecturer in Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and as guest professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2018, and a Fritz Thyssen Stiftung fellow at the University of Cologne between 2018-2023.

Meltem Gürle is presently finalizing her book project, Resistance, Repetition, Retreat: The Turkish Bildungsroman, in which she considers the Turkish influence on the development of the genre.

Publications

Work in Progress

Resistance, Repetition, Retreat: The Turkish Bildungsroman (Book Project)

Books

Gürle, Meltem. Roko ile Konuşmalar [Conversations with Roko -Philosophy/Children’s Book], İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2018. ISBN: 9789750524141
Gürle, Meltem. Kırmızı Kazak [The Red Sweater: Popular essays on literature and philosophy], İstanbul: Can Yayınları, 2016. ISBN-10 : 975073307X, ISBN-13:978-9750733079
Gürle, Meltem. Ölülerle Konuşmak: Shakespeare’den Joyce’a Tutunamayanlar’da Edebi Miras Meselesi, [Talking to the Dead: The Question of Literary Heritage from Shakespeare to Joyce - Monograph] İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2016. ISBN-10: 975051971X, ISBN-13: 978-9750519710
Gürle, Meltem. Carnivalizing the Turkish Novel: Oğuz Atay’s Dialogue with the canon in The Disconnected, European University Studies, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012. [PhD Thesis] ISBN-13: 978-3631634592, ISBN-10: 3631634595

Book Chapters

Gürle, Meltem. "Kara Kitap: Bir Çöküş Hikayesi." [The Black Book: The Story of a Fall] Ben Yazar Suat Derviş, edited by Seval Şahin. İthaki Yayınları, 2024. ISBN: 9786052653128
Gürle, Meltem. "The Black Book as Pathography: Romancing Disease and Decay in the Late Ottoman Empire." The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing, edited by Jagannath Basu and Jayjit Sarkar, Vernon Press, 2021, pp. 193-211. ISBN: 1-64889-064-4.
Gürle, Meltem. "Walk past the Vines, Past the Orchards." Refugee Routes, edited by Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, and Jane O. Newman, transcript Verlag, 2020, pp. 109-114. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450130-009.
Gürle, Meltem. "Şule Gürbüz ve Varoluşa Dair Düşünmek" [Şule Gürbüz: Thinking About Existence] Gaflet: Modern Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları [Hubris: The Sexist Nerve Ends of Modern Turkish Literature], edited by Sema Kaygusuz and Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2019, pp. ISBN: 9786053161684.
Gürle, Meltem. "Masumiyet ve Kader: Oyalanmanın Estetiğine Dair." [Innocence and Destiny: On the Aesthetics of Distraction] Bir Kapıdan Gireceksin: Türkiye Sineması Üzerine Denemeler [Essays on Turkish Cinema], edited by Umur Tümay Aslan. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 2012, pp. 31-45. ISBN: 9789753428736.
Gürle, Meltem. "Tracing the carnival spirit in A Confederacy of Dunces: Modern reworkings of the grotesque in defying authority." Power and Victimization - The Rhetoric of Sociopolitical Power and Representations of Victimhood in Contemporary Literature, edited by Oya Berk and Sirma Soran Gumpert, Istanbul, 13-15 April 2005, pp. 31-45.

Articles

Gürle, Meltem. "The Return of Children: A Comparative Study on the Contemporary Turkish and Irish Novel." New Perspectives on Turkey, vol. 66, 2022, pp. 122-139. doi:10.1017/npt.2021.35.
Gürle, Meltem. "‘What Is This Poor Child Trying to Say?’ Bildung and Language in Flann O’Brien’s The Hard Life." Nordic Irish Studies, vol. 18, 2019, pp. 1-19. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041552.
Gürle, Meltem. "Shakespeare's Talking Killers." Cervantes, Shakespeare: Prisma Latinoamericano, Lecturas Refractadas: Reflexiones desde Montevideo, edited by María de los Angeles Gonzalez Briz and Lindsey Cordery, Linardi y Risso, 2017, pp. 271-283.
Gürle, Meltem. "Hermits, Stoics, and Hysterics: Turkish Democracy and the Female Bildungsroman." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 47, no. 1, 2014, pp. 90-107. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43829999.
Gürle, F. Meltem. "‘Wandering on the Peripheries’: The Turkish Novelistic Hero as ‘Beautiful Soul’." Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 36, no. 4, 2013, pp. 96-112. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.36.4.96.
Gürle, F. Meltem. "Reasoning with the Murderer: The Killing of Clarence in Richard III." Journal of the Wooden O, vol. 11, 2011, pp. 51-67.
Gürle, Meltem. "‘Cinema Grande’ and the Rhetoric of Illusion in Uyurkulak's Har." New Perspectives on Turkey, vol. 36, 2007, pp. 125-144. doi:10.1017/S0896634600004623.

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesInstitute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World

Dr. Meltem Gürle