Hulya Adak
E-mail : hadak
sabanciuniv.edu
Education :
B.A. in Western Languages and Literature, Bosphorus University, 1993; M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago (USA), 1994, 2001, respectively.
Work Experience :
Freie Universitaet Berlin, (June 2016- )
Universitaet Potsdam, (June 2016- )
The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University, Ottowa (June 2016- June 2017)
Freie Universitaet Berlin, (2012-2013)
Bosphorus University, (1994-1996)
University of Chicago USA, (1993-2001)
Areas of Interest :
Gender and women's studies; theories of autobiography and the novel; nationalism and national myths; World War I and Ottoman Armenians in history and literature.Awards :
- Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute Book Manuscript Award for book Afterlives as Archives (with Melanie Tanielian and Erdağ Göknar) - Duke University, Franklin Humanities Institute 2021
- Visiting Professorship at Free University of Berlin's Margherita von Brentano Zentrum for Gender Studies - Free University of Berlin 2021
- Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute Book Workshop Fellowship 2020-2021 - Duke University 2020
- Freie Universitaet Berlin W3 Full Professorship (2018-2020) - Freie Universitaet Berlin 2020
- SU Gender MA Scholarship - SABANCI UNIVERSITY & SU GENDER 2020
- SU Gender/Purple Certificate MA Scholarship (A Type) - Sabancı University & SU Gender & Sabancı Foundation 2020
- UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education - SABANCI UNIVERSITY & SABANCI FOUNDATION & UNESCO 2020
- Freie Universitaet Berlin W3 Professorship - Freie Universitaet Berlin 2019
- Humboldt Experienced Researchers Fellowship - Humboldt Foundation Bonn 2018
- Academic Advisory Board - Orient Institut Istanbul der Max Weber Stiftung 2017
- Advisory Board - Hrant Dink Foundation 2015
- Researcher and Academic Advisory Board Member - Leverhulme Trust (Boston University, The University of Edinburgh) 2015
- Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers - Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2014
- Researcher - L`Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) & Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 2014
- Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers - Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung 2012
- FASS Teaching Award - Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2011
- Research Fellowship - Orient-Institut Istanbul der Max Weber Stiftung 2011
- Postdoctoral Fellowship - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2002
- AAUW Dissertation Award - American Association of University Women 1999
- Department of Comparative Literature Fellowship - University of Chicago 1995
- University of Chicago, Excellence in Foreign Language Teaching Award - University of Chicago 1995
Membership :
Modern Language Association (MLA), Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO), The History Foundation (of Turkey), The Library of Women's Works (in Turkey).Publications :
| Article |
| Adak, Hülya (2021) "Imagining gender+ justice amid the pandemic: the year in Turkey", Biography - An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Vol.44, No.1, 155-160 (AHCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2018) "Unsettling the canon of the theatre of the absurd: Halide Edib's masks or souls? and its other lives", Comparative Drama (SI), Vol.52, No.3-4, 275-299 (AHCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2018) "The legacy of Andre Nikolaievitch Mandelstam (1869-1949) and the early history of human rights", Zeitschrift für Religions und Geistesgeschichte (Journal of Religious and Cultural Studies), Vol.70, No.2, 117-130 (AHCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2016) "Teaching the Armenian genocide in Turkey: curriculum, methods, and sources", PMLA (Journal of the Modern Language Association of America), Vol.131, No.5, 1515-1518 (AHCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2016) "From l'ecriture feminine to queer subjectivities: Sevgi Soysal, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Perihan Mağden", Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol.12, No.1, 107-111 () |
| Adak, Hülya (2015) "Gendering denial narratives of the decade of terror (1975-85): the case of Samiha Ayverdi/Neşide Kerem Demir and Hatun Sebilciyan/Sabiha Gökçen", Journal of Genocide Research, Vol.17, No.3, 327-343 () |
| Adak, Hülya (2014) "Swaraj/siyasi direnişin biyografik sözlüğü: Halide Edib ve Inside India", Duvar Edebiyat Dergisi, Vol.14, 58-63 (NA) |
| Adak, Hülya and Heffernan, Teresa and Lewis, Reina (2013) "The Independence War (1919-1922) and the ordeal for freedom", Cultures in Dialogue: Halide Edib Page (NA) |
| Adak, Hülya and Altınay, Ayşe Gül (2010) "Guest editors' introduction: at the crossroads of gender and ethnicity: moving beyond the national imaginaire", New Perspectives on Turkey, No.42, 9-30 (SSCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2008) "Exiles at home: questions for Turkish and global literary studies", PMLA (Journal of the Modern Language Association of America), Vol.123, No.1, 20-26 (AHCI) |
| Adak, Hülya (2007) "Ötekileştiremediğimiz kendimizin keşfi: 20. yüzyıl otobiyografik anlatıları ve Ermeni tehciri", Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar, No.5, 231-253 (NA) |
| Adak, Hülya (2007) "Suffragettes of the empire, daughters of the republic: women auto/biographers narrate national history (1918-1935)", New Perspectives on Turkey: Special Issue on Literature and the Nation, No.36, 27-51 (OTHER) |
| Adak, Hülya (2005) "Gendering biography: Ahmet Mithat ( on Fatma Aliye) or the canonization of an Ottoman male writer", Querelles, Vol.Band 1, 189-204 (NA) |
| Adak, Hülya (2003) "National myths and self na:(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk and Halide Edip's memories and Turkish Ordeal", The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol.102, No.2/3, 509-528 (AHCI) |
| Book |
| Mapping gender: what's new and what's ahead in Ottoman and Turkish women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Adak, Hülya and Wittmann, Richard (eds.), Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, April 2022 |
| Adak, Hülya, Halide Edib ve siyasal şiddet: Ermeni kırımı, diktatörlük ve şiddetsizlik, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, February 2016 |
| Adak, Hülya and Altınay, Ayşe Gül and Düzel, Esin and Bayraktar, Nilgün, So ist das, meine Schöne: aus dem Türkischen von constanze letsch, Berlin: Orlanda Frauenverlag 2009 |
| Book Section / Chapter |
| Adak, Hülya and Wittmann, Richard, "Mapping gender in the near east: research methodologies, institutional developments and challenges ahead", Mapping Gender: What's New and What's Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Adak, Hülya and Wittmann, Richard (eds.), Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung, April 2022, 3-12 |
| Pantelmann, Heike and Adak, Hülya, "Institutional collaboration models: Freie Universitat Berlin's Margherita von Brentano Center & Sabancı University's SU Gender", Mapping Gender: What's New and What's Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Adak, Hülya and Wittmann, Richard (eds.), Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung, April 2022, 120-125 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Müfide Ferit Tek's Aydemir meets Neşide K. Demir, or how women in mourning impede gendered memories of a genocidal past", Women Mobilizing Memory, Altınay, Ayşe Gül and Contreras, Maria Jose and Hirsch, Marianne and Howard, Jean and Karaca, Banu and Solomon, Alisa (eds.), New York: Columbia University Press, August 2019, 455-475 |
| Altınay, Ayşe Gül and Adak, Hülya and Bolgül, Arzu and Güneş, Hatice, "Toplumsal cinsiyet farkındalığı ve cinsel tacizle mücadele: Sabancı Üniversitesi deneyimi", Üniversitelerde Cinsel Taciz ve Saldırıyla Mücadele: CTS Çalışmaları, Uygur, Gülriz and Şimga, Hülya (eds.), Kıbrıs: Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi Yayınevi, November 2018, 123-142 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Coups, violence, and political turmoil: aesthetics and politics in Pamuk's novels", Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk, Türkkan, Sevinç and Damrosch, David (eds.), New York: Modern Language Association of America, October 2017, 36-45 |
| Adak, Hülya, "A personal odyssey toward 'feminist curiosity'", A Journey into Women's Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries, Pande, Rekha (ed.), London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, July 2014, 266-278 |
| Adak, Hülya, "La perte du deuil: Halide Edib et la violence politique à l’égard des Arméniens", Temoignage et Survivance, Alloa, Emmanuel and Kristensen, Stefan (eds.), Geneve: MetisPresses, June 2014, 321-355 |
| Adak, Hülya, "İkinci Dünya Savaşı esnasında Hint bağımsızlık hareketi: Hindistan'a Dair'in sessizlikleri...", Hindistan'a Dair, Adıvar, Halide Edip (ed.), İstanbul: Can Yayınları 2014, 205-210 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Beyond the catastrophic divide walking with Halide Edib (the Turkish "Jeanne d’Arc") through the Ambiguous Terrains of World War I", Selbstzeugnis und Person: Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Ulbrich, Claudia and Medick, Hans and Schaser, Angelika (eds.), Weimar, Köln, Wien: Böhlau 2012 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Oy hakkını savunan imparatorluk kadınları, Cumhuriyet'in kızları: kadın oto/biyografi yazarlarının anlattığı milli tarih (1918-1935)", Edebiyatın Omzundaki Melek: Edebiyatın Tarihle İlişkisi Üzerine Yazılar, Uysal, Zeynep (ed.), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, March 2011, 253-282 |
| Adak, Hülya and Glassen, Erika, "Vorwort", Hundert Jahre Türkei: Zeitzeugen Erzaehlen, Adak, Hülya and Glassen, Erika (eds.), Zürich: Unionsverlag, July 2010, 9-24 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nın "Matem Yasağına" veda: "Türk Jeanne d'Arc"'ı Halide Edip ile büyük kırılmanın ötesindeki belirsiz topraklara yolculuk", Dünya Edebiyatı Deyince...: Aralıkta Edebiyat Sempozyumu Bildirileri, Deniztekin, Osman and Çakmak, Efe (eds.), İstanbul: Varlık Yayınları, December 2009, 93-135 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Pamuk'un "ansiklopedik romanı"", Kara Kitap Üzerine Yazılar, Esen, Nüket (ed.), İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları 2009, 275-294 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Identifying the "internal tumors" of World War I: Talat Paşa's hatıraları [Talat Paşa's Memoirs], or the travels of a unionist apologia into history", Raueme Des Selbst: Selbstzeugnisforschung Transkulturell, Baehr, Andreas and Burschel, Peter and Jancke, Gabriele (eds.), Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, November 2007, 151-169 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Who is afraid of Dr. Rıza Nur's autobiography?", Autobiographical Themes in Turkish Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Akyıldız, Olcay and Kara, Halim and Sagaster, Börte (eds.), Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, October 2007, 125-141 |
| Adak, Hülya, "The protracted purging of the tyranny of nationalism: Turkish egodocuments and the possibilities of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation", The Armenian Genocide, Turkey and Europe (Der Völkermord An Den Armeniern, Die Türkei und Europa), Kieser, Hans-Lukas and Plozza, Elmar (eds.), Zürich: Chronos, November 2006, 107-116 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Biyografide toplumsal cinsiyet: Ahmet Mithat ya da bir Osmanlı erkek yazarın kanonlaşması", Merhaba Ey Muharrir!: Ahmet Mithat Üzerine Eleştirel Yazılar, Esen, Nüket and Köroğlu, Erol (eds.), İstanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları, February 2006, 201-213 |
| Adak, Hülya, "An epic for peace (Introduction to Halide Edib's Memoirs)", Memoirs of Halidé Edib, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, October 2005, 5-28 |
| Adak, Hülya, "Otobiyografik benliğin çok-karakterliliği Halide Edib'in ilk romanlarında toplumsal cinsiyet", Kadınlar Dile Düşünce: Edebiyat ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Irzık, Sibel and Parla, Jale (eds.), Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları, May 2004, 161-178 |
| Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| Adak, Hülya, "Ötekileştiremediğimiz kendimizin keşfi: Yirminci yüzyıl otobiyografik anlatıları ve Ermeni tehciri", Aral, Fahri (ed.), İmparatorluğun Çöküş Döneminde Osmanlı Ermenileri: Bilimsel Sorumluluk ve Demokrasi Sorunları, İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, March 2011, 317-338 |
| Adak, Hülya, "A valediction to the “interdiction of mourning” of World War I; or, walking with Halide Edib through ambiguous terrains beyond the Catastropic divide", Keough, Leyla J. (ed.), Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop 2009, Istanbul: Sabanci University 2011, 21-29 |
| Volumes Edited / Special Issues |
| Adak, Hülya and Altınay, Rüstem Ertuğ, Introduction: theatre and politics in Turkey and its diasporas, Western Michigan University, December 2018, 185-214 |
| Adak, Hülya and Glassen, Erika, Hundert jahre Türkei: zeitzeugen erzaehlen, Zürich: Unionsverlag (Bosch Stiftung), July 2010 |
| Adak, Hülya and Altınay, Ayşe Gül, New perspectives on Turkey: Dossier on gender, ethnicity, and the nation-state, İstanbul: Homer Kitabevi 2010 |
| Adak, Hülya and Altınay, Ayşe Gül and Düzel, Esin and Bayraktar, Nilgün, İşte böyle güzelim..., İstanbul: Sel Yayıncılık 2008 |