BURCU started following the work of Martin Pokorný, Charles University, Prague, Comparative Literature.
BURCU started following the work of Ozlem Berk Albachten, Bogazici University, Translation Studies.
BURCU started following the work of Nora Lafi, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Microcosms and the Pratice of the Local.
About
Burcu Gürsel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien & Freie Universitat, Berlin 2010-2011 "Zukunftsphilologie" Program
University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory May 2008
Dissertation: “Invasive Translations: Violence and Political Mediation of the False-Colonial; France and Ottoman Egypt (1780-1840)”
University of Chicago, BA 1998
William Penn Fellowship at UPenn; Full Tuition Scholarship at U Chicago; Phi Beta Kappa 1998; Special Honors for Thesis and General Honors 1998; Grants for Summer Intensive Arabic at UChicago (1998) and Middlebury (2002), and for French in Institut... d'Avignon (2001).
Teaching experience:
Sabancı U (2009-2010); UPenn (2005-06; 2001-02) Charles V/ Univ de Paris 7 (2003-04); Kadir Has U (1998-99)
