ELIT Theses and Dissertations
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ELIT Theses and Dissertations
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Author |
Title |
Supervisor |
Year |
Degree |
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Topal, Mahir Onat |
"It's the meat talking: ignore it": The Question of Posthuman Embodiment in William Gibson's Neuromancer and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go |
Elif Öztabak Avcı |
2023 |
MA |
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Sevinç, Seray |
Parodic Engagement with (Neo)Slave Narratives: Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots and Andrea Levy's The Long Song |
Elif Öztabak Avcı |
2022 |
MA |
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Tanrıöveri, Halilcan |
Sebastian Barry's Critical Revisiting of Women's Representation in Anti-colonial Nationalist Narratives: On Canaan's Side and The Secret Scripture |
Elif Öztabak Avcı |
2022 |
MA |
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Güzen, Aybüke |
The Other Mothers in Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage and The Lost Child |
Hülya Yıldız Bağçe |
2022 |
MA |
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Özkuzey, Özden Barışcan |
Hybridity and Heterotopias in China Miéville's Weird World of Bas-Lag |
Margaret J. M. Sönmez |
2022 |
MA |
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Doğan Aslantatar, Sadenur |
Construction of Narrative Worlds in Mimetic and Anti-Mimetic Fiction: A Critical Reading of Possible Worlds Theory | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2022 | PhD |
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Kasurka, Mahinur Gözde |
A Posthumanist Study of the Dystopian Novel: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas | Hülya Yıldız | 2022 | PhD |
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Kırpıklı, Deniz |
The Role of Transcultural Memory in the Construction of Identity in Caryl Phillipss Fiction | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2021 | PhD |
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Koç, Nesrin |
The Reconstruction of Authorial Identity in Contemporary Author Fictions: A.S. Byatt's Possession, David Lodge's Author, Author and Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2021 | PhD |
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Özen, Altınay |
Focalization in Verbal and Graphic Narratives: Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and Its Graphic Novel Adaptation | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2021 | MA |
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Öztürk Yağcı, Dilek |
Moving from Topographic to Relational Spaces in Brian Friel's Drama: Spatial Reconfigurations in Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney | Nurten Birlik | 2021 | PhD |
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Toprak-Sakız, Elif |
Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Postmillennial British Fiction | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2021 | PhD |
| Kaygisiz, İsmail | Deterritorialization of Home and Identity in Brian Chikwavas Harare North and Chris Cleaves The Other Hand | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2020 | MA |
| Sönmez-Demir, Yağmur | Generic Reconfigurations in Kazuo Ishiguros Postmodern Hypertexts | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2020 | PhD |
| Baysal, Sermet Melis | Trauma, Survival, and Resistance: Possibilities of Recovery in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things | Hülya Yıldız | 2020 | MA |
| Ünal, Nergis | A Bakhtinian Analysis of the Protagonists’ Ethical Dilemma in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and The End of the Tether | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2020 | MA |
| Anşin, Berfin | Resistance and Heterotopia: An Analysis of Space in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2019 | MA |
| Ateş, Meltem | From Postmodernism to Metamodernism: Changing Perspectives towards Irony and Metanarratives in Julian Barness A History of the World in 10 and ½ Chapters and Noise of Time | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2019 | MA |
| Kara, Emre | An Analysis of Julian Barness England, England and Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go in the Light of Jean Baudrillards Simulacra and Simulation | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2019 | MA |
| Bulut, Bilge | The Problem of Otherness in In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee, Night Lessons by Latife Tekin and Lighthousekeeping by Jeannette Winterson | Hülya Yıldız | 2019 | PhD |
| Vargün, Ahmet Can | Subversion of the Empire and Colonial Spatial Narratives in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Almayer’s Folly | Hülya Yıldız | 2019 | MA |
| Karslı, Zehra | A Sartrean Reading of John Fowles’ The Collector and The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2019 | MA |
| Çokay-Nebioğlu, Rahime | Deleuze and Contemporary Dystopia | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2018 | PhD |
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Oruç, Sinem |
A Novelized Epic: An Analysis of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien in Terms of the Bakhtinian Distinction of the Epic Hero and the Novelistic Hero | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2018 | MA |
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Güleryüz Kara, Gülsevin |
Spatial Politics in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and The Blind Man’s Garden | Hülya Yıldız | 2018 | MA |
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Tülüce, Mustafa Uğur |
William Butler Yeats and Mysticism: A Neo-Platonic Approach to His Poetry | Nil Korkut-Naykı | 2017 | MA |
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Nazli, Elzem |
Postmodern Historiography in D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow | Nil Korkut Naykı | 2016 | MA |
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Yapar Demirciler, Dilara. |
A Study of mimicry in V. S. Naipaul’s the Mimic men and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The bridge of the golden horn | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2016 | MA |
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Karabıyık, İrem. |
The Imperial club revisited: the transformation of spatial politics in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and James Frey’s Bright Shiny Morning | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2016 | MA |
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Atar, Merve. |
A Study of feminist possibilities of escape from the panopticon and the male gaze in Pat Barker’s Union street and Angela Carter’s Nights at the circus | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2016 | MA |
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Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge. |
Carnivalization of gender hierarchies and the body in Virginia Woolf’s fiction | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2016 | PhD |
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Kaya, Tuğba Billur. |
History of the novel in stories of femininity: Moll flanders, Evelina and Fordyce’s sermons | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2015 | MA |
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Örmengül, Seda. |
Postnationalist subversion of the constituents of Irishness: land, religion and family in the plays of Martin McDonagh and Dermot Bolger | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2015 | PhD |
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Tekin, Çağla. |
The moral dimension of disguise and role-playing in Ben Jonson’s volpone, the alchemist and the silent woman | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2015 | MA |
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Eratalay, Etkin Bilen. |
Dickens’s Bleak house and The Old curiosity shop: a reading through things | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2015 | MA |
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Demirel Aydemir, Gül Deniz. |
Why can’t we still be friends?: othering in intercultural relationships in E. M. Forster’s a Passage to India and Zadie Smith’s White teeth | Nil Korkut Naykı | 2015 | MA |
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Özgür, Nilüfer. |
Thomas Hardy as a threshold figure and crisis of representation in his poetry—a deconstructionist reading | Nurten Birlik | 2015 | PhD |
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Türe Abacı, Özlem. |
Nomad thought in Peter Reading’s Perduta gente and Evagatory and Maggie O’sullivan’s In the house of the shaman and Palace of reptiles | Nurten Birlik | 2015 | PhD |
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Hoş, Gül Deniz. |
Revisiting history through gothic evocations in Pat Barker’s regeneration trilogy | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2015 | MA |
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Çankaya, Tuğçe. |
Constructing and deconstructing chivalric romance and modern fantasy literature | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2015 | PhD |
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Arslan, Murat. |
Beyond the twin cores: the motif of doppelganger in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2015 | MA |
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Coşar Çelik, Seda. |
Ambivalence in Victorian women’s writing: Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (Co-advisor: Nursel İçöz) | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2014 | PhD |
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Koç, Nesrin. |
Representation of British Muslim identities in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Nadeem Aslam’s maps for lost lovers | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2014 | MA |
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Bal, Reyyan. |
The Revival of romantic utopianism in rock lyrics of the 1960s (Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Margaret J.M. Sönmez) | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2014 | PhD |
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Kahveci, Rana. |
Realisms and working women in the novels of Gaskell and Brontë | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2014 | MA |
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Korkut, Esin. |
Archival texts and bodies in Thomas Hardy’s and E.M. Forster’s short stories | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2014 | PhD |
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Dore, Peter Jeremy. |
An Analysis of the political approach of John Dryden’s plays and their appraisal through the ideas of Edmund Burke | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2014 | MA |
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Arslan, Özlem. |
A Postcolonial narratological study of silence in Abdulrazak Gurnah‟s Admırıng Silence and By The Sea | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2014 | MA |
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Çağlar, Bircan. |
Motherhood in Pat Barker’s post-industrial working-class fiction: a study of Union Street and Liza’s England | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2014 | MA |
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Doğru Bakar, Hilal. |
Construction and deconstruction of the nation and nationality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s an artist of the floating world and the remains of the day | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2014 | MA |
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Kara, Mustafa. |
A Third world feminist approach to femaleness as inferior to maleness in Doris Lessing’s the grass is singing and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s nervous conditions | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2014 | MA |
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Başpınar, Harika. |
Nietzsche’s influence on modernist bildungsroman: the immoralist, a portrait of the artist as a young man, and demian | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2014 | MA |
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Kaya, Hilal. |
A Comparative Study of Discontent with Modernity and Modernization in the Novels of Aldous Leonard Huxley and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2014 | PhD |
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Doğan, Sadenur. |
Light and darkness images in relation to emotions in John Milton's Paradise Lost | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2014 | MA |
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Yazgı, Cihan. |
Hegemony, and value construction In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day and Never Let Me Go: a Marxist reading | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2013 | MA |
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Yönkul, Ayşe. |
A Brechtian analysis of Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest and Edward Bond's Red, Black and Ignorant | Hülya Yıldız Bağçe | 2013 | MA |
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Okuroğlu Özün, Şule. |
Rethinking diaspora as heterotopia in works of Anita Deasi, Kamala Markandaya and Meera Syal | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2013 | PhD |
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Turasan Çiğdem, Ferruh. |
Othering and Hybridity in Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2013 | MA |
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Eşberk, Hatice. |
Metadrama, theatricality and performativity in Samuel Beckett’s late plays (Co-advisor: Nursel İçöz) | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2013 | PhD |
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Büyü, Gül. |
Evil in fairy tales across cultures : a study of Turkish and British fairy tales from a psychological perspective | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2013 | PhD |
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Yıldırım, Tuğçe. |
A Comparative narratological analysis of the representation of women in Homer’s the Odyssey and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of darkness | Elif Öztabak Avcı | 2013 | MA |
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Aydoğdu, Merve. |
Tragedy at Court: An Analysis of the Relationship between Jealousy, Honour, Revenge and Love in John Ford's "Love's Sacrifice" and Lope de Vega's "Punishment Without Revenge" | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2013 | MA |
| Onmus, Selime. | Hybrid identities in the Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi and the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri | Meral Çileli | 2012 | MA |
| Kur, Hasret. | The Dislocation of power and alienation through the use of dramatic violence in Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson and Sarah Kane's Blasted | Meral Çileli | 2012 | MA |
| Öztürk, Gülüzar. | The Construction of female identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Grace of Mary Traverse and The Break of Day | Meral Çileli | 2012 | MA |
| Alparslan, Ebru Didem. | The constitution of the female subject in Emma and the proud woman (Mağrur Kadin) | Meral Çileli | 2012 | MA |
| Ertin, Serkan. | Perpetuation of the gay male stereotype: a study on camping and closeting the gay male subculture inHollinghurst's fiction | Nurten Birlik | 2012 | PhD |
| Dörschel, Funda Başak. | "Female identity”: rewritings of Greek and Biblical myths by contemporary women writers | Meral Çileli | 2011 | PhD |
| Mete, Barış. | Reconceptualisation of realism in British postwar fiction: the cases of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and John Fowles | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2011 | PhD |
| Tuğlu, Utku. | A bakhtinian analysis of William Golding’s rites of passage: heteroglossia, polyphony and the carnivalesque in the novel | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2011 | MA |
| Sünbül, Çiçek. | Nineteenth-century women’s place in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Thomas Hardy’s the return of the native and tess of the d’urbervilles | Nursel İçöz | 2011 | MA |
| Yakut, Özge. | Sexuality and gender in Jeanette Winterson's two novels: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and Written On The Body | Nurten Birlik | 2011 | MA |
| Aktari, Selen. | Abject representations of female desire in postmodern British female gothic fiction | Nursel İçöz | 2010 | PhD |
| Akçeşme, İfakat Banu. | Comparative discourse analyses of gender constructions in the novels of Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ and Samuel Delany | Nursel İçöz | 2010 | PhD |
| Bilgin Tekin, İnci. | Myths of oppression revisited in Cherrie Moraga and Liz Lochhead's plays | Meral Çileli | 2010 | PhD |
| Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki. | The relationship between narrative strategies and meaning in William Golding’s the inheritors, pincher martin and free fall | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2010 | PhD |
| Tekin, Kuğu. | Parody in the context of Salman Rushdie’s magical realistic fiction: midnight’s children, the moor’s last sigh, and shalimar the clown | Nursel İçöz | 2010 | PhD |
| Korkmaz, Fatma Tuba. | Rewriting myths: voicing female experience in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The Penelopiad and Marina Warner's Indigo and The Leto Bundle | Nurten Birlik | 2010 | MA |
| Yedekçi, Esra. | Endless pursuit reality through metadramatic devices in Tom Stoppard's plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real İnspector Hound and Travesties | Deniz Arslan | 2010 | MA |
| Çağlıyan, Murat. | Gothic elements in sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2010 | MA |
| Tekin, Burcu. | The portrayal of universal harmony and order in Edmund Spenser’s Fowre Hymnes | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2010 | MA |
| Sezer, Şermin. | The question of identity in Hanif Kureishi’s the buddha of suburbia and the black album | Nurten Birlik | 2010 | MA |
| Akdoğan, Şule. | Representation of nature in D.H. Lawrence's women in love and the plumed serpent and Virginia Woolf's the voyage out and Orlando: a biography | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2010 | MA |
| Albayrak, Gökhan. | Gender and sexuality in three British plays: "Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill, "My Beautiful Laundrette" by Hanif Kureishi, "The Invention of Love" by Tom Stoppard | Ünal Norman | 2009 | MA |
| Bal, Mustafa. | The end: the apocalyptic in in-yer-face drama | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2009 | PhD |
| Kırca, Mustafa. | Postmodernist historical novels: Jeanette Winterson’s and Salman Rushdie’s novels as historiographic metafictions | Nursel İçöz | 2009 | PhD |
| Naseri Sis, Farzaneh. | Iris Murdoch’s novel-plays: the impact of the use of dramatic elements on Iris Murdoch’s fiction | Nursel İçöz | 2009 | PhD |
| Sadrian, Mohammad Reza. | Parody in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the real inspector hound, and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth | Nursel İçöz | 2009 | PhD |
| Salman, Volhan. | ‘Fabulation’ of metanarratives in julian barnes’s novels metroland, flaubert’s parrot, a history of the world in 10 ½ chapters, and england, England | Nursel İçöz | 2009 | PhD |
| Kaya, Hilal. | Postmodernist and Poststructuralist Elements in Samuel Beckett's The Trilogy and Oguz Atay's Tehlikeli Oyunlar | Nursel İçöz | 2009 | MA |
| Toprak, Elif. | The Kafkaesque theme of menace in Harold Pinter’s plays | Ünal Norman | 2008 | MA |
| Örmengül, Seda. | The individual up against an irrational and cruel social system in edward bond's works: saved, lear, red, black and ignorant and tin can people | Ünal Norman | 2008 | MA |
| Küçük, Hale. | Edward Albee's drama under the influence of Samuel Beckett | Ünal Norman | 2008 | MA |
| Pekşen Yanıkoğlu, Seda. | Psychological bisexuality and otherness in the novels of angela carter, virginia woolf, marge piercy and ursula le guin: a study from the perspective of ecriture feminine | Nursel İçöz | 2008 | PhD |
| Karadaş, Fırat. | Imagination, metaphor and mythopoeia the poetry of three major English romantic poets | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2008 | PhD |
| Umay Yurduseven, Menşure. | Ideological issues in George Orwell’s works; a study of burmese days, keep the aspidistra flying and nineteen eighty-four | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2008 | MA |
| Hacızade, Günel. | Wuthering Heights by Bronté and a hero of our time by Lermontov | Deniz Arslan | 2008 | MA |
| Baranoğlu (Çevik), Selen. | An analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert L. Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in relation to Lacanian criticism | Dürrin Alpakın Martinez Caro | 2008 | MA |
| Doğan, Buket. | Shakespeare's Hamlet as a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ünal Norman) | Ünal Norman | 2008 | MA |
| Yazan, Bedrettin. | Sectarian conflict and inability to construct a national identity in Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s “tea in a China cup,” “did you hear the one about the Irishman … ?,” “joyriders,” “the belle of the Belfast city,” and “my name, shall i tell you my name?” | Nurten Birlik | 2008 | MA |
| Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge. | Nietzschean nihilism and the ways to overcome it in Tom Murphy's plays "bailegangaire" and "the sanctuary lamp" | Nurten Birlik | 2008 | MA |
| Tokdemir, Gökçe. | Worlds subverted: a generic analysis of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the subtle knife, and harry potter and the philosopher’s stone | Nursel İçöz | 2008 | MA |
| Ayken, Edibe Serra. | The use of memory in Harold Pinter's Landscape, Silence, Night, Old Times, and No Man's Land | Ünal Norman | 2007 | MA |
| Kuglin, Ayşegül. | The roles of male sexual predators in the novels of austen, charlotte and anne brontë, and gaskell | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2007 | PhD |
| Baktır, Hasan. | Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature | Nursel İçöz | 2007 | PhD |
| Sağlam, Berkem Gürenci. | "The mystical city universal": representations of London in Peter Ackroyd’s fiction | Nursel İçöz | 2007 | PhD |
| Uçar Özbirinci, Pürnur. | Mythmaking in progress: plays by women on female writers and literary characters | Meral Çileli | 2007 | PhD |
| Ertin, Serkan. | Dissociation of literacy characters : the use of "the double" as a defense mechanism in Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind, Friel's Philadelphia Here I Come!, and Shaffer's Equus | Ünal Norman | 2006 | MA |
| Korkut, Nil. | Kinds of parody from the medieval to the postmodern | Nursel İçöz | 2005 | PhD |
| Zileli, Bilge Nihal. | Absurdity of the human condition in the Novels by Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett | Nursel İçöz | 2005 | PhD |
| Özyurt Kılıç, Mine. | The Function of the fantastic in the works of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson | Nursel İçöz | 2005 | PhD |
| Fırat, Serap. | Caryl Churchill and gender roles : Owners, Cloud Nıne, Top Girls | Meral Çileli | 2005 | MA |
| Okuroğlu, Şule. | An analysis of metafictional self-reflexivity in laurence sterne's the life and opinions of tristram shandy and William Gass' willie masters' lonesome wife | Nursel İçöz | 2005 | MA |
| Akgün, Ela. | An analysis of gender issues in the lost girl and the plumed serpent by D.H. Lawrence | Meral Çileli | 2005 | MA |
| Kızılcık, Hale. | Jungian archetypes in samuel beckett's trilogy | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2005 | MA |
| Kocamaner, Hikmet. | The use of language with ulterior motives in harold pinter's plays | Ünal Norman | 2005 | MA |
| Altındağ, Zümrüt. | Rereading Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Richard II: | Wesker's The Merchant and Ioneco's Exit the King | Ünal Norman | 2004 | MA |
| Madran, Cumhur Yılmaz. | An archetypal analysis of E. M. Forster's fiction | Nursel İçöz | 2004 | PhD |
| Bal, Reyyan. | The relationship between the individual and nature in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2004 | MA |
| Saraçoğlu, Semra. | Self-reflexivity in postmodernist texts : a comparative study of the works of John Fowles and Orhan Pamuk | Margaret J. M. Sönmez | 2003 | PhD |
| Uzunefe Yazgan, Yasemin. | Vestiges of Greek tragedy in three modern plays - Eequus, A View from the Bridge and Long Day's Journey into Night | Ünal Norman | 2003 | MA |