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Nur Gülümser İlker

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Nur Gülümser İlker

Assistant Professor

Basic Sciences Unit

Part-Time Lecturer

She was born in 1991 in Ankara, she completed her primary and high school education in Manisa. In 2014, she graduated from Ankara University, Department of Spanish Language and Literature. In the same year, she worked as a lecturer in the department she graduated from and started her master studies in the same department. She completed her master's degree in 2016 by writing her thesis on the psychology of women in Juan Valera's Pepita Jiménez through psychoanalytic literary criticism.  From 2015 to 2019, she worked as a lecturer at TOBB ETÜ. Since 2016, she has been working as a lecturer at TED University. She started to adopt an opposing perspective to psychoanalytic literary criticism with her readings after her master's degree. In 2021, she completed her PhD in the Department of Spanish Language and Literature at Ankara University with a thesis analyzing the relationship between society and women in Doña Perfecta and La Regenta with Poststructuralist and Feminist Literary criticism. She spent 30 days in 2018, 45 days in 2019 and 2 and a half months in 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina for her academic studies and publications. In 2023, she conducted field research in Argentina and Uruguay as a Project Coordinator within the scope of the 6-month Los Turcos Migration to Latin America Research Support Programme of the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities. She is currently producing and publishing on Contemporary and 19th Century Spanish Literature. She has also published on the literatures of Chile, Argentina and Colombia. In her publications, she discusses literary works in relation to feminism, gender, poststructuralism, postmodernism, ontologic diversity, society-individual conflict and individual auto-consciousness.