BURCU GÜLÜM TEKIN
Burcu Gülüm Tekin completed her doctoral dissertation entitled “Heroines of the Working Class: The Representation of Motherhood in Roddy Doyle’s Work” in July 2017 at the University of Granada. She is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza.
Her main research interests are contemporary Irish literature and versatile gender representations in the Irish context. She has presented papers in various international conferences on the aforementioned topics. Her work has appeared in various academic journals, including Estudios Irlandeses, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Studi Irlandesi, and The European Legacy as well as in the edited volumes Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), and Ireland and Dysfunction: Critical Explorations in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). Her most recent chapter will appear in January 2023 in the edited volume Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature: Wounds of the Body and the Soul (Routledge).