Academic

• Post-Doc Research, Philosophy, Boston College, 2024-2025.

  • Sponsorship: TÜBİTAK

    • Logical and Philosophical Analysis of the Applicability and Adaptability of the  “Hermeneutic Maxim” as a Common Ground of the Sciences

  • Supervisor

    • Richard Kearney

• Erasmus+ Training Program, Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 2024.

  • The UPF Center for Gianni Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives

    • Director: Santiago Zabala

• Ph.D., Philosophy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, 2015-2020.

  • Dissertation Title

    • Touching the Text, The Touching Texts: The Carnal Hermeneutics of Reading

  • Dissertation Committee

    • Advisors: Edward S. Casey and Anne O’Byrne

    • Internal Reader: Peter Carravetta

    • External Reader: Nikolaos Panou

• MA, Philosophy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, 2013-2015.

  • Focus: Philosophy and the Arts

• Intensive English Program, University of Kentucky, 2012-2013.

• Academic Language Training Program, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, 2012.

• MA, Islamic Philosophy, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 2011-2012. (not completed)

• BA, Faculty of Divinity, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006-2010.

20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Vattimo); Philosophical and Literary Hermeneutics (Iser, Jauss); Phenomenology and Reading (Ingarden, Nancy); Phenomenology of Place (Casey, Malpas); Literary Theories; Postmodernity; and Art and Aesthetics.

History of Philosophy (esp. Ancient Philosophy and Medieval Islamic Philosophy); New Italian Thought; Contemporary Islamic Thought; Feminist Phenomenology; Modern Turkish and Italian Literature; Film; Myths and Fairy Tales.

• Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey, 2021-current.

  • Department Head of Logic, 2022-current.

  • Internationalization Sub-Committee of the University, 2023-2025.

  • Executive Board of the Faculty of Divinity, 2023-2024.

• Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA, 2024-2025.

• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Ibn Haldun University, İstanbul, Turkey, 2022.

• Research Associate, Lecturer, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey, 2020-2021.

• Research Assistant, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hitit University, Çorum, Turkey, 2012-2020. (Duty on abroad)