E-mail: ezgi.ilimen@hacettepe.edu.tr

Phone: +90 (312) 297 85 15 / 119

Degrees:

PhD: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2024.

MA: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2017. 

BA: Department of American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University, 2014.                                     

Areas of Interest and Teaching:

American Social History, American Novel, Contemporary American Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Food Studies

Selected Publications:

İlimen, Ezgi. "Gertrude Atherton’s Modern New Women in The Sisters-in-Law and Black Oxen." Anglia 142.4 (2024): 793-815. 

İlimen, Ezgi. "Gertrude Atherton’s WWI Propaganda to the Home Front: Mrs. Balfame, The Living Present and The White Morning." Anglia 141.1 (2023): 35-62. 

İlimen, Ezgi. “The Devil’s Highway: The U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing, Global Influences and Politics.” folklor/edebiyat 29.113 (2023): 253-270.

İlimen, Ezgi. "Culinary Survivance: Maya Angelou's Gastrographic Writing." Journal of American Studies of Turkey 55 (2021): 121-43.

İlimen, Ezgi. "The Woman's Body as a Site of Resistance and Surrender in Lori Gottlieb's Stick Figure." Food in American Culture and Literature: Places at the Table. Eds. Carl Boon, Nuray Önder and Evrim Ersöz Koç. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, 126-140.

İlimen, Ezgi. “Puritan Legacy, Exorcism and Idealized Haven(s) in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Perspectives on the Sublime in American Cultural Studies. Ed. Carl Boon. İzmir: Dokuz Eylul University Printing House, 2018. 113-25. 

İlimen, Ezgi. “Selma.” Rev. of Selma, dir. Ava DuVernay. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 44 (May 2016): 102-104.

Conference Presentations

İlimen, Ezgi.  "American Wartime ‘Relocation’ Policy: Japanese American Incarceration in World War II." American Hospitality - PAAS/IASA 2024. September 25-27, 2024. Bialystok, Poland.

İlimen, Ezgi. "Across the U.S.-Mexico Border: Politics and Humanity in Question." The Biennial 2020 Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS). "20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal." April 30-May 2, 2021. Online.

İlimen, Ezgi. "Memory Preservation and Traumatic Commemoration in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence." 39th International American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) Conference. Monuments, Museums and Murals: Preservation, Commemoration, and American Identity. May 15-17, 2019. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey.

İlimen, Ezgi. "Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling: Feminist Technoscience and the Rise of Black Female Cyborg." Third Biennial European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Women's Network Symposium: Feminism and Technoscience. April 6, 2019. Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

İlimen, Ezgi. “Anorexic Self Memoir: (Re)Construction of Femininity and Body Politics.” International Başkent Conference: Health and Healing in Culture and Literature. March 13-15, 2019. Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

İlimen, Ezgi. "The Movement from Self-Hate to Love and Sisterhood." 38th International American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT) Conference: Manifestations of Love and Hate in American Culture and Literature. November 1-3, 2017. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

İlimen, Ezgi. “Puritan Legacy, Exorcism and Idealized Haven(s) in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.” Dokuz Eylül University 1st International Symposium of American Studies: The Sacred & The Sublime. April 27-29, 2016. Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.