Gönül Bakay studied at London and Istanbul Universities. She teaches in the Women's Studies Department of Istanbul University and at Beykent University. Her published works include two books in Turkish: Virginia Woolf and Communication and Changing Image of Women: from Chaucer to Browning.

Recent articles

From the late Ottoman era to the modern republic, Turks have found their passions, longings and even their politics mirrored in the work of England’s greatest playwright. Gönül Bakay tracks an enduring friendship.

Europe’s relationship with Turkey – a country whose historical legacy is at once imperial, martial, Islamic, Asiatic, and European - has always been problematic, and frequently refracted through culture as well as politics. A Turkish scholar traces the fascinating evolution of an alien but also intimate and surprising figure in the English literary imagination.