Asst. Prof. MERVE GÜNDAY

Articles 10

1. “There's Nowhere to Go": Ideological Refraction of Reality in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

Günday M.

Tobider-Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi , no.9, pp.134-154, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

2. Confronting the Repressed in the Modern Metropolis in Patrick Süskind’s The Pigeon

Günday M.

The Journal of German Language and Culture Studies (ALKAD) , vol.7, no.1, pp.75-80, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

3. Greening the Desire with Plants in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s "The Secret Garden"

Günday M.

ECOZON@: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT , vol.16, no.1, pp.257-274, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

4. As I Die(s): Dying as an Attempt for Becoming in Deniz Gezgins YerKusAgi

Günday M.

TURK DILI VE EDEBIYATI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF TURKISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE , no.3, pp.637-656, 2024 (ESCI)

5. The Time Regulation Institute: The transition from the Muvakkithane to the Institute

BİRLİK N., Kacar E., GÜNDAY M.

CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION , vol.64, no.3, pp.491-503, 2023 (AHCI, Scopus)

6. Bending the Structure: Jacques Lacan Along the Axis of Structuralism and Poststructuralism

Günday M., Kaçar E.

Archives of Philosophy , vol.56, no.1, pp.56-112, 2022 (TRDizin)

7. The Burial of Ambivalence in Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado

GÜNDAY M., BİRLİK N.

LITERA-JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES , no.1, pp.228-246, 2022 (ESCI, TRDizin)

8. Putting "New Wine in Old Bottles": Subversion of the Symbolic

BİRLİK N., GÜNDAY M.

INTERLITTERARIA , no.1, pp.281-294, 2021 (ESCI)

9. Against the Aphanisis of the Subject: Rewriting the Myth of Black Woman in Grace Nichols's The Fat Black Woman's Poems

GÜNDAY M., BİRLİK N.

FORUM FOR WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES , no.4, pp.553-567, 2020 (ESCI, Scopus) Sustainable Development

10. A Slight or a Stinging Ache?: The Freudian Uncanny in Pinter’s A Slight Ache

Günday M.

THE JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND HISTORY-GEOGRAPHY OF ANKARA UNIVERSITY , vol.56, no.2, pp.1-25, 2016 (TRDizin)

Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences 19

1. “There is not one, / No, no, not one” but many: In Search of the Lost Phallus in John Keats’s “Endymion”, a Romantic Refutation of the Metaphysical Quest for the Pure Origins

Günday M.

10. Uluslararası Rumeli [Dil, Edebiyat ve Çeviri] Sempozyumu, İstanbul, Turkey, 07 February 2026, pp.23, (Summary Text)

2. The Paralyzed Body as the Paralyzed Nature Incarnate: Facing the End Times with Samuel Beckett’s Failing Earth in Happy Days

Günday M.

3rd T-LitCon: Discursive Terminals: Representations of the Apocalypse in Literature, İstanbul, Turkey, 20 - 21 December 2025, pp.30, (Summary Text)

3. Delving into the Intricacies of an Untranslatable Pain in Didem Madak’s “The Last Letter to Pollyanna"

Günday M.

“Vigílias do Tempo Ausente: Ensaios sobre o Luto na Literatura e nas Artes: 3º Seminário Internacional Literatura e Emoções”, Lisbon, Portugal, 6 - 07 October 2025, pp.39-40, (Summary Text)

4. Tracing Ihab Hassan’s “Fiduciary Realism” In Charlotte Turner Smıth’s “Beachy Head” and Rethinking the Idea(lizaton) Of Seclusion in Romanticism Through a Non-Solipsistic Hermit Figure

Günday M.

BAKEA IX -INTERNATIONAL WESTERN CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES SYMPOSIUM-"FICTION", Konya, Turkey, 15 - 17 September 2025, pp.126, (Summary Text)

5. Panpsychism and Charlotte Turner Smith: Penetrating into Plant‬ ‭ Consciousness with Smith’s Vibrant Zoe in “Flora” ‬ ‭

Günday M.

ROMANTIC (UN)CONSCIOUSNESS --British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) PGR & ECR Conference -- Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 4 - 12 September 2025, (Unpublished)

6. Suffering from the Sins Committed Against Nature and Negating the Necropolitics in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City

Günday M.

ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY, Maryland, United States Of America, 17 - 18 July 2025, (Unpublished)

7. Narrative Interventions in Patrick Süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Günday M.

14th International Marmara Social Sciences Congress- Imascon 2025 Spring, Kocaeli, Turkey, 16 - 17 May 2025, pp.20, (Summary Text)

8. Vegetal Sentience and Affective Plant-Human Bonds in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Sensitive Plant”

Günday M.

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (Organized by The Global Plant Humanities Network), Kathmandu, Nepal, 1 - 03 May 2025, pp.94, (Summary Text)

9. The Spectral Voice: A Hauntological Exploration of the Other Side of Silence in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”

Günday M.

Söylem 4. International Philology Symposium, İstanbul, Turkey, 10 - 12 April 2025, pp.142-143, (Summary Text)

10. Ecological Grief, Solastalgia, and The Dethronement of the Subject of Humanism in Lord Byron’s Environmental Apocalypse in “Darkness”

Günday M.

VIII. International Rumeli [Language, Literature and Translation Studies] Symposium , İstanbul, Turkey, 01 February 2025, pp.19, (Summary Text)

11. The Taming of Elizabeth Richmond in Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest

Günday M.

International Congress on Women's Studies , Ankara, Turkey, 13 - 15 December 2024, pp.41, (Summary Text)

12. What Did the Oak Tree Say to Orlando? Revisiting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando through the Lens of Transecology

Günday M.

International Literature, Language and Education Research Symposium., Ankara, Turkey, 20 - 22 September 2024, pp.29-30, (Summary Text)

13. Capitalizing on Scarce Oxygen Levels and Decapitating the Lower Social Classes: Striving to Breathe Free in the Capitalocene of Sarah Crossan’s Eco-Dystopic Fiction Breathe

Günday M.

İstanbul Topkapı University, T-Litcon 2024-Online International Conference on Capitalism and Literature. , İstanbul, Turkey, 9 - 10 May 2024, pp.7, (Summary Text)

14. Becoming-Insect by the rhizo-musicology of Insects in Keats’s “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

Günday M.

‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’ BSLS Winter Symposium 2023, co-hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science and the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 01 December 2023, (Unpublished)

15. Antroposenden Yokyere Yolculuk: Deniz Gezgin’in YerKuşAğı Romanında Bir Var Oluş Çabası Olarak (Yok)Oluş

Günday M.

Cappadocia University, Second National Environmental Humanities Conference, Nevşehir, Turkey, 25 - 26 July 2023, (Unpublished)

16. Perversity, Art, and Suicide as Forms of Performing Power: Staging a Drama of Resistance to Female Oppression with Annabel's Eccentricities in Angela Carter's Love

Günday M.

“Power, Performance, and Play” Virtual Symposium. Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, Indiana, United States Of America, 3 - 04 March 2023, (Unpublished)

17. Contingent Subjectivities of the Posthuman Women of London in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time

Birlik N., Kaçar E., Günday M.

Congress on Gender Studies: Gendered Global Crisis (CGS21), Trabzon, Turkey, 11 - 12 November 2021, pp.20, (Summary Text)

18. A Study on Evaluation of the Pre-service Teachers’ Awareness of the Acculturating Power of Binary Oppositions in Fairy Tales

Birlik N., Günday M., Erdem Ö., Sert G.

Ankara International Congress on Scientific Researches: Social Sciences and Humanities, Ankara, Turkey, 4 - 06 October 2019, pp.566-576, (Full Text)

19. A Lacanian Interpretation of Garden as an Eco/Heterotopia in Auden’s “Their Lonely Betters"

Birlik N., Günday M.

8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) , Würzburg, Germany, 26 September 2018 - 29 September 2024, (Unpublished)

Books 2

1. Reading Keats's Poetry: Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations

Günday M.

Routledge, London/New York , New York, 2024

2. “Garden as a Post-anthropocentric spontaneity in Auden’s ‘Their Lonely Betters:’ An Ecopsychological Reading.”

Birlik N., Günday M.

in: Synergy I: Marginalisation, Discrimination, Isolation and Existence in Literature., A. Nejat Töngür and Yıldıray Çevik, Editor, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York, pp.63-78, 2021

Other Publications 2