Ali Gunes
PROF. DR. ALI GUNES – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
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 as 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 and 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 professorship 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 having worked for Istanbul Selahattin Zaim University and Ankara Medipol University; currently, he works for Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu-Turkey.
His research interest includes 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.
Ali Gunes can be contacted at ali.gunes@ibu.edu.tr, gunesali1@gmail.com
Phone: +90531 209 1038
Address: Prof Dr Ali GUNES
Chair
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Science and Letters
Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University
14030 Gölköy- BOLU
TÜRKİYE
Phone: +90 (374) 254 1000, Ext. 5215
Mobile: + 90 531 209 10 38
E-mail: ali.gunes@ibu.edu.tr
gunesali1@gmail.com
gunesali_1@hotmail.com
Web: http://ibu.edu.tr/en
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 as 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 and 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 professorship 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 having worked for Istanbul Selahattin Zaim University and Ankara Medipol University; currently, he works for Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu-Turkey.
His research interest includes 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.
Ali Gunes can be contacted at ali.gunes@ibu.edu.tr, gunesali1@gmail.com
Phone: +90531 209 1038
Address: Prof Dr Ali GUNES
Chair
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Science and Letters
Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University
14030 Gölköy- BOLU
TÜRKİYE
Phone: +90 (374) 254 1000, Ext. 5215
Mobile: + 90 531 209 10 38
E-mail: ali.gunes@ibu.edu.tr
gunesali1@gmail.com
gunesali_1@hotmail.com
Web: http://ibu.edu.tr/en
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