Züleyha ÇETİNER ÖKTEM
Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı
Research areas: Social Sciences and Humanities, Western Languages and Literatures, Philology, English Language and Literature, American Culture and Literature, Comparative Literature, Radio, Cinema and Television, Linguistics
<p>Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem is an associate professor of English Language and Literature at Ege University, where she brings together medieval studies and speculative fiction in both her teaching and research. She teaches a wide range of courses, including <em>Medieval Culture and Literature</em>, <em>Chaucer and His Contemporaries</em>, <em>Science Fiction and Fantasy</em>, as well as graduate seminars on <em>The Graphic Novel</em>, <em>Children’s Fantasy Literature</em>, <em>Posthuman Narratives</em>, and <em>Medieval Studies</em>. Her research explores the afterlives of the medieval in contemporary culture, with particular interests in medievalism, graphic storytelling, and the politics of science fiction and fantasy. Her work has been published in various national and international venues.</p>
Publications
- Eurasian Folk and Fairy Tales: Bridging Continents (2025)
- Nautical Narratives (2025)
- The Siren’s Song: Reimagining the Pied Piper in Miéville’s King Rat and Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice (2025)
- Travelling Stories: Traces in Text and Image (2025)
- Catching Tides, Riding Waves (2025)
- Echoes of Tomorrow: Exposing Climate Chronicles in Extrapolations (2024)
- Access to Higher Ed in the Era of Lockdowns and Beyond: A Turkiye Case Study (2024)
- Remember that time when Deadpool killed a whale? Well, the story goes something like this… (2023)
- Beyond Humanity: Posthuman Bodies in Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees (2023)
- Memory and Men: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
- Functions of Space and Mobility in Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea (2022)
- Geographical Freaks: Weird Others in Medieval Travelogues (2021)
- Space Opera (2021)
- Resisting Sympoiesis: The Birth of the Monstrous Posthuman in Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio (2021)
- Wheat or Breath? A Spiritual Posthumanist Journey in Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Grain (2021)
- Decaying Earth, Dissolving Bodies: Toxic Landscapes in Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz (2020)
- Mapping Monstrosities: On the Geographically Freakish Others in Medieval Travelogues (2020)
- On the Divine Feminine: Reading Fay Weldon’xxs Puffball through Thunder, Perfect Mind (2020)
- and then there were none: The Post-Apocalyptic Chronotope in Black Mirror’s “Metalhead” (2019)
- Inverted Spaces: Rising from the London Below and the Dark Lands in Neverwhere and MirrorMask (2019)
- Clothing the Monster, Undressing the Hero: On Monstrosities in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2019)
- Medieval Gardens: Body, Space, and the Allure of the Locus amoenus (2019)
- The Apocalyptic Chronotope in "Farewell to the Master" and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2019)
- Where Flesh Meets Machine: Making Sense of Cyborg Anthropology (2019)
- Chaucer's Mythic Men in the Legend of Good Women (2019)
- It's a Matter of Life or Death: The Post-Apocalyptic Chronotope in Black Mirror's "Metalhead" (2018)
- Chaucer’s Gardens: Body, Space, and the Allure of the Locus amoenus (2018)
- Diğer Diyarlar: İnci ve Sör Orfeo'da Öteki Dünya Uzamları (2018)
- Ripley: A Woman's Journey (2018)
- The Eternal Return, Gnosticism and Battlestar Galactica (2018)
- Words will Never Hurt me: Standing Still at the Crossroads of Language, Culture, and Gender (2017)
- Creating a Space of One’s Own: Dialogues of Gender in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (2017)
- Languages, Cultures, and Gender (2017)
- ”Sweet Dreams are Made of These:” Manifestations of Memory in Dollhouse and Westworld (2017)
- Facing the Monstrous Other: Traumatic Encounters in Medieval Literature (2017)
- The Many Faces of London in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and China Mieville’s King Rat (2017)
- Mapping Dreams, Mapping Reality: Questing for the Real in Ihsan Oktay Anar’s The Atlas of Misty Continents (2017)
- How Sexy is your Toaster? Exploring the Emotive Force of Love through Non-Human Bodies in Her and Ex Machina (2017)
- Creating a Space of One’s Own: Dialogues of Gender in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (2016)
- The Near Apocalypse in ‘Farewell to the Master’ and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2016)
- Mythmaking Across Boundaries (2016)
- Mythmaking and Storytelling (2016)
- Reinventing Chaucer’s Sir Thopas from a Turkish Perspective (2016)
- Remembering Mnemosyne s Sons Composing Masculinity in Homeric Verse (2015)
- Tracing the Transformative Function of the Telephone Box from Superman to Doctor Who (2011)
- (Un)Becoming Male: Contemplating Chaucerian Masculinity (2010)
- Camelot Redefined: Merlin as a Non-Othering Text of the Middle Ages (2010)
- Gnostic Remnants in Fay Weldon’s Puffball (2009)
- Redemption on TV: Life on Mars as a Purgatorial Narrative (2009)
- Moonlight Twilight ve True Blood Yeni Çağın Aklıselim Vampirleri (2009)
- Dreaming the Middle Ages: American Neomedievalism in A Knight’s Tale and Timeline (2009)
- Playing the Demiurge: Gnosticism and Battlestar Galactica (2008)
- The Sandman as a Neomedieval Text (2008)
- Gothic Transformations: Revisiting the House on the Borderland (2007)
- From Pan to the Pied Piper and Beyond: Negotiating the Centre with China Miéville’s King Rat and Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2007)
- Revisiting the House on the Borderland (2005)
- Inside Outside In: Emotions, Body and Society (2004)
- Distortion of Time: A Fantastic Neomedievalist Perspective on Timeline and A Knight’s Tale (2004)
- City and Spectacle: The Ritual of Hıdrellez in the City of Izmir (2004)
- Humanizing Evil The Humourized Portrayal of Death in the Discworld Series (2002)