Arş. Gör. Dr. Duygu Beste Başer Özcan

e-posta: duygubaserozcan@hacettepe.edu.tr

Telefon: (312) 297 85 15 / 129

Eğitim Durumu:

Doktora: Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2023.

---Fulbright Misafir Araştırmacı - University of Michigan, 2021-2022

Yüksek Lisans: Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2016.

Lisans: Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2011.

İlgi Alanları:

Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, Engellilik Çalışmaları, Çağdaş Amerikan Tiyatrosu, Kültür Çalışmaları

Yayınlarından Bazıları:

Başer Özcan, Duygu Beste. “Contemporary American Family on Stage: Disability Justice and Access Intimacy in Stephen Karam’s The Humans.Journal of American Studies of Turkey 59 (2023): 25-47.

---. “Shattering Normalcy: Disability and Queerness in Tennessee Williams’s One Arm.” Modern Drama. 66.1 (2023): 48-70.

---. “Ten Thousand Ways of Survival and Healing: Reading Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan as An Example of Minor Literature.” Litera. 32.1 (2022): 249-266. 

Başer, Duygu Beste. “Death of the Second Wave?: Men and the Backlash against Second Wave Feminists in Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter.” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 46 (2018): 1-22.

---. “Conflict Unresolved: Men’s Responses to Second Wave Feminism in Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic (1983) and The Heidi Chronicles (1989).” Studia UBB Philologia. 62.1 (2017): 7-22.

Konferans Bildirileri:

Başer Özcan, Duygu Beste. “Transformation on the Contemporary Stage: The Representation of Family in The Humans.” 41st International American Studies Conference, November 16-18, 2022. Turkish American Association, Ankara, Turkey.

---. “Myth versus Reality: The Portrayal of Down Syndrome in Lindsey Ferrentino’s Amy and the Orphans.” The Third Symposium on Mythology: Allegorical Interpretations, Cultural Responses and Human Experience, 18-20 October 2022. Ardahan University, Ardahan, Turkey.

---. “Disability, Caretaking and Motherhood in Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane.” 118th PAMLA Conference: City of God, City of Destruction, November 11-14, 2021. Las Vegas, Nevada, the USA. 

---. “Motherhood and Disability: Single Mothers in Good People and Mary Jane.” 44th Comparative Drama Conference, October 14-16, 2021. Rollins College, Orlando, Florida, the USA.

---. “Reforming Representation on Stage: Healthcare, Disability and Caregiving in John Belluso’s Pyretown.” 40th International American Studies Conference, June 28-29,2021. Online.

---. “A Woman Behind the Scenes: Commemorating Jessie Benton Frémont.” American Studies Association of Turkey: 39th International American Studies Conference, May 15-17, 2019. Çanakkale University, Çanakkale, Turkey.

---. “Wounds That Never Heal: Violence and Trauma in Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan.” International Başkent Conference: Health and Healing in Culture and Literature, 13-15 March 2019. Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Başer, Duygu Beste. “Mexico in Dreams, Mexico in Reality: Love, Hate and Deterritorialization in Jessica Abel’s La Perdida.” American Studies Association of Turkey: 38th International American Studies Conference, November 1-3, 2017. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

---. “Transgressing Borders: Tracing Transnationalism in Wendy Wasserstein’s Plays.” American Studies Association of Turkey: 37th International American Studies Conference, November 25-27, 2015. Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.