OLCAY AKYILDIZ
Olcay AKYILDIZ recieved her Ph.D. from the Comparative Literature Department of Tübingen University, Germany with a dissertation on Occidentalism in Turkish Literature. Since 2001 she has been teaching at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Boğazici University Istanbul. Her research focuses on the question of the “Other” in different cultures and literatures, orientalism and occidentalism in literature, travel writing, gender and sexuality in literature, gynocriticism. Akyıldız has edited books on autobiographical genres (Autobiographical Themes in Turkish Literature: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives.[Ed.] Olcay Akyıldız, Halim Kara, Börte Sagaster. (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2007)) and travel writing Venturing Beyond Borders: Reflections on Genre, Function and Boundaries in Middle Eastern Travel Writing [Ed.] Bekim Agai, Olcay Akyıldız and Caspar Hillebrand. (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2013)) She is a member of the editorial board of Toplum ve Bilim and Metafor Journals and member of executive board of Boğaziçi University Nazım Hikmet Culture and Art Research Center. She directs a project on the personal archive of the turkish author Leylâ Erbil. She edited a book with Murat Gülsoy’la on Nazım Hikmet which was published by the Boğaziçi University Press (Şiir Dünyadan İbaret: Nazım Hikmet Üzerine Yeni Çalışmalar [Ed.] Olcay Akyıldız, Murat Gülsoy (İstanbul: Boğaziçi University Press, 2019))
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Bibliographies are not just the lists of an author’s works, their interviews, and studies written about them. They also serve as a source for interpreting the political and historical context and the history of the author’s reception. Thus, bibliographical studies include a wide range of dynamics from the institutions of literature to the publication market, from the demands of the readers to the horizon of expectations of a certain period and cultural policy. The complex web of relations between the writer, their literature, the reader and the cultural context becomes visible through these studies. This article analyzes Leylâ Erbil’s bibliography using information collected from the Leylâ Erbil Archive and digital humanities. Using the bibliographical data as a guide for understanding the dynamics of Leylâ Erbil’s work, literary studies and literary milieu of various periods, this article asks new questions about literary history. We explain the reasons for the decisions regarding the formation and categorization of the material, and we distinguish our study of Leylâ Erbil from other bibliographical studies. This article not only aims to contribute to contemporary studies on Leylâ Erbil but it also suggests a new reading of Erbil’s oeuvre and discusses the genre of bibliography as a field of literary studies.
held at Istanbul Research Institute, June 2019
1st meeting: From Barcelona to Istanbul: An Exiliado’s Impressions on Istanbul: Juan Goytisolo
(https://hat.ku.edu.tr/barcelonadan-istanbula-bir-yeryuzu-surgununun-sehir-izlekler-juan-goytisolo/)
2nd meeting: The Carnavalesque Istanbul Narratives of a Flaneur from Eyüp: Pierre Loti and Aziyade
(https://hat.ku.edu.tr/eyuplu-bir-flanorun-karnavalesk-istanbul-anlatilari-pierre-loti-ve-aziyade/)
3rd meeting: Istanbul in the Early-Modern Turkish Feminist Writing: Halide Edip’s Sinekli Bakkal
(https://hat.ku.edu.tr/erken-modern-turkiye-feminist-yazininda-istanbul-halide-edipin-sinekli-bakkali/) (https://www.facebook.com/HAT.KocUniversitesi/posts/2346121309002027)