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About Gönül Bakay

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.

Articles by Gönül Bakay

Thursday 16th December

Turkey and Shakespeare

Gönül Bakay, 16 December 2004
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.
Friday 14th February

The Turk in English Renaissance literature

Gönül Bakay, 14 February 2003
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.
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