E-mail: gaslan@hacettepe.edu.tr

Phone: +90 (312) 297 85 15 / 117

Degrees:

PhD: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2018.

PhD Dissertation Research Project, University of Utah, 2015.

MA: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2011.

BA: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2008.

Areas of Interest:

Contemporary American Literature, American Novel, Literary Criticism, Multimedia Fiction, Digital Humanities, Electronic Literature, Artists’ Books/Book Arts.

Selected Publications:

Aslan, Gülşen. Wandering Schizo-Nomads in Postmodern Spaces. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014.

Aslan Uslu, Gülşen. “Re-Membering and Re-Writing Black (Hi)Stories in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker.” Current Research in the Axis of Humanities: Theories, Concepts and Applications. Edited by Bedriye Tunçsiper and Dilek İnan. Kriter Yayınevi, 2020.

----. “The Workings of Space in Steve Tomasula’s VAS: AN Opera in Flatland.” JAST, no. 55, 2021, 53-76.

---. “The Bell Jar Descends Again: A Feminist Critique of Modern Medicine by Sylvia Plath and Rebecca Myers-Spiers.” ASBİDER, vol. 8, no. 23, 2021, 323-333.

---. “A Parable about Space: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” JAST, no. 50, 2019, 91-118.

Conference Presentations:

• “‘There is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon:’ The Nomadic Ventures in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” (40th International American Studies Conference: “Movement and Mobility in America,” American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT), June 28-29, 2021, Online)

• “Re-membering and Re-writing Black (Hi)Stories in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker” (İzmir Demokrasi University International Humanities Congress, 7-9 Aralık 2020, Online)

• “American Dream Re-played: A Reading of Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse and Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet” (49th International Conference of Korean-American Association, “American Dream Reconsidered,”” September 26-27, 2014, Pyeongtaek, South Korea)

• “A Parable about Reading: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves” (30th Anniversary Conference of the Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University “From Cover to Cover: Reading Readers,” November 7-9, 2012, Ankara, Turkey)

• “Architecture as Language: Hotels Telling Stories in Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer” (34th International American Studies Conference, American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT), October 3-5, 2010, Antalya, Turkey)

• “Nature-Human Bond in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and People of the Whale” (“An International Conference ‘The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons’” October 4-6, 2009, Antalya, Turkey)