Rıza Öztürk, PhD
31040 Antakya-HATAY/TÜRKİYE
E-mail: rizaozturk-yahoo.com
Date of Birth: 10.09.1959
Place of Birth: Antakya
Nationality: Turkish Republic
EDUCATION
1992-1996Ph.D. inEnglish Language and Literature Department, Hacettepe University, ANKARA/ TURKEY
Hardy’s Tragic Vision: A Study on Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure
1985-1990M.A. in English Language and Literature Department, HacettepeUniversity, ANKARA/ TURKEY
“The Image of Nature in Wilfred Owen’s Poetry”
1980-1985B.A. in English Language and Literature Department, SelçukUniversity,KONYA/ TURKEY
Supervised AM Thesis:
1-Representation of Human Language and Altruism in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers(2011).
2-Female Characters as Victims of Drives and Prejudice: A Study on Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure (2008).
3-Impact of Theatre Production on ELT Students’ Foreign Language Speaking (2008).
4-The Use of Poetry in ELT Classes in the Framework of Learner-cantered Training(2005).
5-Dynamics of Literature in a Second Language Teaching and Learning Process. (2004).
International Symposium: Published Proceeding:
1)An Assessment of the Dynamics of Metaphor in Donne, Eliot and Raine’s Poetry
Researches on Literature and Stylistics. İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi,Yayınları, 2009.
Book Chapters Published Abroad:
1)Dasein, an Absorption in the World of Temporality:An Aspect of the Self Consciousness “Cosciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts” Ed. By; Daniel Meyer-DinkgrafeCambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, United Kingdom. 2009.
2) Consciousness and The Child Image in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives “Cosciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts” ,Ed. By; Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle,United Kingdom. 2009.
Articles Published in National Journals:
1) An Assessment of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectation and Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil’s Aşk-ı Memnu Balıkesir Üni. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (1989)
2) Shelley the Musician: Ode to the West Wind.ÇÜ.Eğitim Fak. Dergisi (1990)
3) An Assessment of the New Criticism.ÇÜ Eğitim Fak. Dergisi. (1990)
Participation to various National and International Scientific Meetings:
05-31 July 1987“Intensive English Language Summer Course” Sponsored by the
Commission for Educational Exchange Between USA and Turkey
İstanbul.
5-24 August 1991 “English in the Theatre” English Language Summer School, The
English Speaking Union BBC English ,London, UNITED
KINGDOM.
01 January 1998 21. Yüzyıla Doğru Üniversitelerde İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Sempozyumu.
Bilkent Üniversitesi, ANKARA.
13 June 2009Looking Before and After: Cultural Exchange and the Inheritance of Ideas c. 1200-1700, Oxford University, UNITED KINGDOM.
Presntations at Various National and International Conferences and Symposiums:
28 Mayıs 1998 IV International Comperative Literary Research Symposium.ÇOMÜ Facts and Failures in Orhan Pamuk’s Post Modern NovelKarakitap.
14-16 May 2008The 8th International Language, Literature and Stylistics Symposium,İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, İZMIR/ TURKEY
An Assessment of the Dynamics of Metaphor in Donne, Eliot and Raine’s Poetry.Published.
15-17 April 20094th International IDEA Conference, MANISA/ TURKEY
A Study on Some of Graham Greene’s narratives: The Pubs and Alcohol Drinking Habit in the British Life.
29 April-01 May 200912th International Cultural Studies Symposium/ Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism, IZMIR/ TURKEY
The Question of Author, Authority and Responsibility in Pamuk’s Black Book.
16-18 May 2009Third International Conference Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM.
1)Dasein, an Absorption in the World of Temporality:An Aspect of the Self Consciousness
2)Consciousness and The Child Image in Hardy’s Tragic Narratives
08-10 June 2009Communicating Change: Weaving the Web into the Future
7th Annual Conference of the GraduateSchool of the Arts and Humanities, GLASGOW University,UNITED KINGDOM
1) Darwinian Criticism Versus Postmodern Literary Theory: A Study on Some of Bradbury’s Short Stories.
2) (Coautorship presentation)“An Experimental Approach to Time, Text, and Space in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger”
09-10 July 2009Literary London 2009 Representations of London in Literature An
Interdisciplinary Conference,University of London,UNITED KINGDOM
1)The Biocultural Evolution of Some of Graham Greene’s Narratives: The Pubs and Drinking Habit in the British Life.
2) (Coautorship presentation) “A Move from the Text into Space and Time in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger”
Undergraduate and Graduate Lecturings:
1-Advanced Reading and Writing Skills.
2- Contextual Grammar (Prep.) and advanced students.
3- Literature: Poetry, Prose, Theatre-Drama, appreciation and their use in ELT.
4-Language and Culture in Literature.
5-Teaching Language Through Literature.
6-Bio-cultural approach to Language and literature
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