CV

On this page, you can find my CV. Also, you can view the CV in the pdf forms below:

Education

  • PhD in Linguistics | 2012-2018 – Hacettepe University Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye
  • Title: Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
  • Advisor: Prof Işıl Özyıldırım
  • Research during PhD | 2017 (Jan–Apr) – The University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Advisor: Prof Lauren Hall-Lew
  • MA in Linguistics | 2009–2012 – Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye
  • Title: An Optimality Theoretical analysis of focus in Turkish
  • Advisor: Assoc Prof Emine Yarar
  • BA in Linguistics | 2004–2009 – Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye

Work Experience

  • Associate Professor | 2024–present
  • Associate professorship awarded by the UAK
  • Assistant Professor | 2025–present
    Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye
  • – Vice-head of the Department | 2025-present
  • – Department Mevlana Program Coordinator | 2022-present
  • – Department Farabi Program Coordinator | 2019-present
  • – Academic undergraduate advisor | 2010-2014, 2014-2018, 2021-2025
  • Research Assistant | 2010-2025
    Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Linguistics, Ankara, Türkiye

Publications & Talks

Editorship

Peer reviewing

  • Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi
  • Bitig Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
  • Cogent Arts & Humanities
  • Dil Dergisi
  • Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
  • Söylem Filoloji Dergisi
  • Türkbilig
  • Turkish Studies
  • Women’s Studies International Forum

Projects

Ongoing

  • Advisor in TÜBİTAK 2209-A Undergraduate Students Projects | Ölçünlü Türkçenin ünlü formantları – Ali Çağan Kaya
    English Title: Vowel formants of standard Turkish
    2025–today
  • Researcher in Hacettepe BAP SHD2023-20716 | 6 Şubat 2023 Depremi sonrasında Suriyelilerin sosyal medya söyleminde ötekileştirilmesi ve içselleştirilmesi 
    English Title: The othering and internalisation of Syrians in social media discourse following the February 6, 2023 earthquake
    2023–today

Completed

  • Researcher in TÜBİTAK 1002 | Türkiye medyasında ‘koronafobinin’ söylemsel inşası
    English Title: Discursive construction of ‘coronaphobia’ in Turkish media
    2021–2022
  • Researcher in Hacettepe BAP SHD2020-18895 | Sosyal medya üzerinde Suriyeli sığınmacıların ‘öteki’ olarak savlanması
    English Title: The argumentation of Syrian refugees as “other” on social media
    2020–2022
  • Researcher in Hacettepe BAP PhD Project SDK-2016-12703 | Toplumsal anlamı dizinleme: Toplumsesbilgisel değişkenler ve Türkçe üzerindeki dinleyici algısı
    English Title: Indexing social meaning: Sociophonetic variables and listener perceptions of Turkish
    2018-2020

Conferences & Workshops Organising

  • 2022 – 15th National Student Conference on Turkish Linguistics – (9-10 April 2022), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye.
  • 2021 – 14th National Student Conference on Turkish Linguistics – (8-9 May 2021), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2019 – Sign Language Workshop – (16 May 2019), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2017 – Language and Society Workshop – (27 April 2017), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2016 – Psycholinguistics Workshop – (19 April 2016), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2015 – Cognitive Linguistics Workshop – (5 May 2015), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2014 – Forensic Linguistics Workshop – (28 April 2014), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 2013 – 27th National Conference on Turkish Linguistics – (2-4 May 2013), Hacettepe University, Antalya, Türkiye

Teaching

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Language ideology
  • Phonology

Other

  • Dilbilim Derneği (En. Turkish Linguistics Association) – Member
  • 2015–today
  • Kırmızı Mavi Karabük Spor Kültürü Derneği (En. Kırmızı Mavi Karabük Sports Culture Association) – Founding member, President
  • 2017-today
  • Kardemir Karabük Sports Club – Member
  • 2015-today
  • Football Supporters Europe – Member
  • 2016-today
  • Hacettepe University Faculty of Education Certificate of English Language Teaching
  • 2008
  • TOSFED Turkish Automobile Sports Federation, Marshall B
  • 2005-2009
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