EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Liverpool John Moores University, Modern English Literature (1999). Liverpool, England.
MA : Dundee University, Modern English Literature (1994). Dundee, England.
BA : Hacettepe University, Department of English Language and Literature (1991). Ankara, Türkiye.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Research: All areas and genres of English literature, particularly Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist English literature, and literary criticism and theory from Aristotle to the present, women’s studies, cultural and political studies.
Teaching: English Language and Literature and Communication.
EXPERIENCE
Academic Titles
Prof. Dr, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Faculty of Science and Letter, Department of English Language and Literature – 2023
Prof. Dr, Ankara Medipol University, School of Foreign Languages, 2021 -2023
Prof. Dr, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Teaching – 2020
Prof Dr, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of English Language and Literature – (2018-2020)
Prof Dr, Karabuk University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature – (2012 – 2018)
Associate Prof Dr, Karabuk University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature – (2010 – 2012)
Associate Prof Dr, International University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Science and Arts, Department of English Language and Literature – (2007-2010)
Assistant Prof Dr, Kars Kafkas University, Faculty of Science and Letters, English Language and Literature – (2000 – 2007)
Research Assistant, Kars Kafkas University, Faculty of Science and Letters, English Language and Literature – (1993 – 2000)
Administrative and Work Experience
Chair, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Faculty of Science and Letter, Department of English Language and Literature – 2023
Dean, Faculty of Communication, Ankara Medipol University – 2022 – 2023
Director, School of Foreign Languages, Ankara Medipol University – 30.09.2021
Director, Graduate Education Institute, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University – 15.04.2020 -28.08.2021
Prof. Dr., İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi – 15.04.2020
Member of Scientific Board of Turkish Language Instıtutıon – 18.11.2018
Vice-Rector, Social Sciences University of Ankara, October 2018 – 02.03.2020
Dean, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Faculty of Foreign Languages – July 2018 – 15.03.2020
Prof. Dr., Social Sciences University of Ankara, Faculty of Foreign Languages, 23.07.2018 – 15.03.2020
Higher Education Council Accreditation Coordinator – 2016 – 15.03.2020
Interuniversity Council Associate Professorship Examination Commission Member – 2016 – 2018
Interuniversity Council Member – 2014 – 15.03.2020
ULAKBİM Social Sciences TR-Journal Index Member – 2014-2016. July 2018
Vice-Rector, Karabuk University, 30.04.2014 – 10.07.2018
Erasmus, ECTS and Diploma Supplement Institutional Coordinator, Karabuk University, 11.03.2013
Prof. Dr., Karabuk University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, 04.10.2012
Director of School of Foreign Languages, Karabuk University, 27.04.2011 – 14.01.2012
Member of Executive Board of Faculty of Letters at Karabuk University, 31.12.2010
Visiting Professor, International University of Sarajevo, 01.03.2011 – 30.06.2013
Head of English Language and Literature Department, Karabuk University, 31.12.2010 – 29.12.2015
Associate Prof. Dr., Karabuk University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, 22.09.2010 – 04.10.2012
Member of the Editorial Board of Philology Epiphany: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISSN 1338-059) – 2010
Member of the Accreditation Committee to follow up the workshops of the Bologna Framework and implement it at the university level – 15. 10.2009
Member of the Editorial Board of Epiphany: The Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies (ISS 1840-3719) – 2008
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, International University of Sarajevo, 19.03.2008 – January 2010
Department Coordinator, November 2007 – 2009
Associate Prof Dr, International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Associate Professor, 01.09.2007 – 2010
Vice-Director of University Strategic Research Centre, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, 2003–2007
Head of Department of English Language and Literature, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, 2000–2007
Member of Education Faculty Board, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, 2001 – 2002
Administrative Member of Education Faculty, Kars Kafkas University, Kars, 2001 – 2002
Member of Commission for the Observance and Evaluation of Students who carry out their Postgraduate studies abroad – 1999 – 2007
Assistant Prof. Dr, Kars Kafkas University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of English Language and Literature – 13.01.2000-02.09.2007
Research Assistant, Kars Kafkas University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of English Language and Literature – 20.07.1993-12.01.1999
English Teacher, Ministry of Education – 06.05.1993-19.07.1993
Translator, General Directorate of Turkish Telecommunication, Department of International Relationships- 16.09.1991-05.05.1993
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Academic Journals
Gunes, A. (1999). Symbolism in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters, 16(2), 173-188.
Gunes, A. (2000). The Modern City: A Cannibalistic Representation in The Secret Agent”, Journal of English Literature and British Culture, 8, 42-56.
Gunes, A. (2000–2001). Virginia Woolf’s View of Social Systems in Mrs Dalloway. Journal of Academic Studies, 2(7-8), 33-47.
Gunes, A. (2001). The Problem of Identity and the Romantic Yearning for a New World in Women in Love. Gazi University Kastamonu Education Journal, 9(2), 303-316.
Gunes, A. (2001). From Self-Sacrifice to Self-Awareness: A View of the New Woman in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters, 18(2), 109-123.
Gunes, A. (2002). Crisis of Identity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Journal of Doguş University, 6, 37-49.
Gunes, A. (2003). Wordsworth’s ‘Double Awareness’ of Memory in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Journal of Dogus University, 4(2), 183-196.
Gunes, A. (2004). Review Article of Bilge Karasu’s Novel, The Garden of Departed Cats. Multicultural Review, 13(2), 56.
Gunes, A. (2004). From Logocentrism (Binary Opposition) to Deconstruction: Meaning, Culture and Gender Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”, Feminist Studies in English Literature, 12(2), 55-80.
Gunes, A. (2004). Virginia Woolf in Turkey: An Interview with Dr Ali Gunes. Multicultural Review, 13(4), 29-31.
Gunes, A. (2005). Review Article of Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry. Multicultural Review, 14(1), 66.
Gunes, A. (2005). A Mysterious View of Identity in Graham Greene’s Under the Garden. In N. Icoz, & S. Peksen (Eds.), Graham Greene and His Works: The 12th METU British Novelists Seminar Proceedings. Ankara: METU Press, 37-43.
Gunes, A. (2006). ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’: Human Alienation in James Joyce’s A Painful Case. In M. Cileli, & M. Kırca (Eds.), The 13th Middle East Technical University Novelists Seminar: James Joyce and His Works. Ankara: METU Press, 33-42
Gunes, A. (2006). ‘Can a Woman Paint and Write? Culture, Ideology and Gender Identity in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In E. Graur, & A. Diaconescu (Eds.), Messages, Sages, and Ages: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on British and American Studies. Suceava: Suceava University Press, 81-101.
Gunes, A. (2006). Gender Identity, Culture and Ideology in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, 4, 103-114.
Gunes, A. (2007). Literature and Society. The Journal of Conservative Thought, 13-14, 69-94.
Gunes, A. (2007). Modernism in Ivo Andric’s The Bridge on the Drina. Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, 2(1), 99-114.
Gunes, A. (2008). The Deception of Liberty and Security: The Construction of Female Gender Identity Under Neo-Colonial Forces in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. In International Conference English Language and Literature Studies: Structures Across Cultures ELLLSSAC Proceedings. Belgrade: University of Belgrade Press, 313-323.
Gunes, A. (2009). The Use of Literature in Language Teaching. Journal of Academic Research, 40(11), 195-207.
Gunes, A. (2009). The Illusion of Freedom in South Africa: Post-colonialism, Exploitation and Identity Crisis in Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country. Epiphany, 2, 20-42
Akca, C., & Gunes, A. (2009). Male Mythmaking: The Origins of Feminism. Nebula, 6(3), 1-15
Gunes, A. (2007). A Third Force’ or Neo-Colonialism in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. In V. Trendafilov (Ed), BOUNDARIES BOUNDARY CROSSING CROSS-BOUNDARY TRANSFER: Proceedings of the 2007 BSBS and BASA Annual Conference in South-Western University “Neofit Rilski”, 250-270.
Akca, C., & Gunes, A. (2009). Culture and Gender in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters, 26(2), 1-15
Gunes, A. (2009). The Birth and Development of English Novel. Gaziosmanpasa University Social Sciences Research Journal, 2, 94-119.
Gunes, A. (2010). Is a Place Possible Under the Crippling Effect of Official State Ideology? Identity Crisis in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty–Four. Revue de la Faculte des Lettres Beni Mellalm, 11, 255-278.
Gunes, A. (2011). From Mother-Care to Father-Care: The Split-Up of The Traditional Heterosexual Family Relationship and Destruction of Patriarchal Man’s Image and Identity in Nick Hornby’s About A Boy”, SKASE Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 3(1), 59-75. Available on a web page: http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JLS03/pdf_doc/04.pdf
Gunes, A. (2011). Crossing the Dividing Boundary of Skin-Colour: Hybridity, Identity, and Culture in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. Language and Literature: European Landmarks of Identity, 8, 495-512.
Gunes, A. (2012). Has Civilisation Taken a Wrong Turn? A Feminist Reading of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. In Proceedings Book of International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research Trends and Challenges. Erzurum: Mega Press, 1683-1699. ISBN 978-605-86867-0-0
Gunes, A. (2013). An Analysis of Maxim Gorky’s Short Story Her Lover. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 2(2), 102-113. Available on a web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/article/view/219/179
Gunes, A. (2013). It was that chalice he broke: James Joyce’s Dissatisfaction with Religion in His Short Story The Sisters. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 2(2), 183-198. Available on a web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/article/view/219/179
Gunes, A. (2013). Unity in Difference: Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity. Communication and Marketing Journal, 7, 5-20.
Gunes, A. (2015). Are We What We Buy and What We Consume? Crisis of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Decline of the West. Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies (Special Issue on Education, Culture and Identity: New Trends and Challenges of Today’s Europe), 8(2), 203-217.
Gunes, A. (2015). The Deconstruction of the Cartesian Dichotomy of Black and White in William Blake’s The Little Black Boy. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 4(2), 144-157.
Gunes, A. (2016). The Deconstruction of High Culture: Youth Subculture as Deviant in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies, 9(1), 9-24. Available on the web page: http://epiphany.ius.edu.ba/index.php/epiphany/article/view/188
Gunes, A. (2016). Are Couples Really Happy after Divorce? An Analysis of the Negative Post-Divorce Effects in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Story Midnight All Day. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 5(32), 1-14. Available on the web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/issue/view/24
Gunes, A. (2016). Interview on James Joyce’s Araby. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 5(32), 195-202. Available on the web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/issue/view/24
Gunes, A. (2017). Wilfred Own Re-Visited: A Psychoanalytic Reading of War, Memory, and Crisis of Identity in Owen’s Poem Mental Cases. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 6(3), 166-178. Available on the web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/issue/view/28
Gunes, A. (2017). Are We Destroying the Space That Nurtures and Embraces Us? Eco-critical Reading of Environmental Pollution in Kelly Roper’s Selected Poems. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 6(4), 1-13. Available on the web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/issue/view/29/showToc
Gunes, A. (2017). Tradition and Modernisation: Misplaced Binaries in the Study of Literature. In S. Noyan, & E. Kapan (Eds.), The Proceedings of Symposium of 1st International Symposium on Modernization and Tradition in Language and Literature. Karabuk: Karabuk University Publication, 2-21. ISBN: 978-605-9554-08-4.
Gunes, A. (2018). The Deconstruction of “Metanarrative” of Traditional Detective Fiction in Martin Amis’s Night Train: A Postmodern Reading. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 7(2), 216-229. This article is available on the web page: http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php/ilk/article/view/1228/1115
Gunes, A. (2019). Why do Refugees have to Leave their Sweet Home Unless the home is the Mouth of a Shark? An Analysis of Warsan Shire’s Poem Home. Journal of History, Culture and Art Research, 8(4), 19-35.
Gunes, A. (7 May 2020). Coronavirus and Family: A Strong Castle.” Anatolian Agency. This article is available at: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/analysis-coronavirus-and-family-a-strong-castle/1832518
Gunes, A. (9 Ma7 2020). The pandemic could be an opportunity for Turkish higher education. This article is available at https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200506061559172
Gunes, A. (June 2020). The Identity Crisis and Memory: A Discussion of Anti-Islamism, Xenophobia and Racism in Leila Aboulela’s Short Story The Ostrich. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 8 (14), 25-39. This article is available at: http://nalans.com/nalans/article/view/242/131
Gunes, A. (2021). Send [them] back to where [they] originally came from”: Donald Trump’s White Racial Supremacy and Brown Colour Politics and an Attempt to Cross the Borderline of “Othering” in Richard T. Eckhardt’s Poem Multicultural Flowers. In M. Karakuzu, H. Baktir, B. Akcesme & Betul A. K. (Eds.). Exploring Borders and Boundaries in Humanities Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 283-302. Retrieved from https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=7nowEAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Exploring%20borders%20and%20boundaries%20in%20the%20humanities&hl=tr&pg=PR5#v=onepage&q&f=false
Gunes, A. Şentürk, S, Şentürk, Z. (2021). Wearing the Mask of Earnestness: Exploring the Artificial Life in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature, 3(1), 198-206. This article is available at: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jell/issue/62779/893953
Gunes, A. (2021). “Corona But Freedom”: Self-Discovery and Family in Sajeev Sasi’s Short Story Discover Your – Self: A Tale Of Covid-19 Days. Epiphany, 14(1), 60-67. This article is available at: http://epiphany.ius.edu.ba/index.php/epiphany/article/view/361/228 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21533/epiphany.v14i1.361.g228
Gunes, A. (29 March 2023). Batı’da yazılan Müslüman karşıtı edebiyat eserleri yeni sömürgeci hedeflere hizmet ediyor. Anatolian Agency. This article is available on: https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/ayrimcilikhatti/musluman-karsitligi/batida-yazilan-musluman-karsiti-edebiyat-eserleri-yeni-somurgeci-hedeflere-hizmet-ediyor/1815797
Refereed Conference Presentations
Gunes, A. (1998). Virginia Woolf and Romantic Tradition. Liverpool John Moores University, England.
Gunes, A. (2002). The Role of Literature in The Language Teaching Process. Erzurum: Ataturk University, Turkey.
Gunes, A. (December 2004). A Mysterious View of Identity in Graham Greene’s Under the Garden’, the 12th Middle East Technical University Novelists Seminar, Ankara, Turkey.
Gunes, A. (2005). Gender Identity in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. The 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul, Korea, June 19 – 24.
Gunes, A. (2005). Things Fall Apart and The Centre Cannot Hold: Human Alienation in James Joyce’s A Painful Case’, the 13th Middle East Technical University Novelists Seminar, Ankara, Turkey.
Gunes, A. (2006). Is a Place Possible Under the Crippling Effect of Ideology? Identity Crisis in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty–Four. Ist International Conference on Nation and Identity in 19th–and–20th–Century Literature in English, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Murcia, Spain, 14th – 16th September.
Gunes, A. (2006). Can a Woman Paint and Write? Culture, Ideology and Gender Identity in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Messages, Sages, and Ages, The “Stefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, Romania, 19-21 October.
Gunes, A. (2007). A Third Force or Neo-Colonialism in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. XII Annual Conference of BSBS on Boundaries, Boundary Crossing, Cross-boundary Transfer, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria – 9 – 12 November.
Gunes, A. (2007). The Deception of ‘Liberty’ and ‘Security”: The Construction of Female Gender Identity Under Neo-colonial Forces in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies: Structures across Cultures (ELLSSAC), the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia – 7 -9 December.
Gunes, A. (2008). Religious Dilemmas and Search for Identity in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. International SDAS 2008 Conference, As You Write It: issues in literature, language, and translation in the context of Europe in the 21st century, The University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia – September 18-20.
Gunes, A. (2009). Is it possible to “revolutionize” biography? The ‘granite’ and ‘rainbow’ views of personality in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Biography and the Biographical Mode Conference, Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France – 16-17 January.
Gunes, A. (2012). Has Civilisation Taken a Wrong Turn? A Feminist Reading of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research Trends and Challenges, Izmir, 10-13 June.
Gunes, A. (2013). It was that chalice he broke…: James Joyce’s Dissatisfaction with Religion in His Short Story The Sisters. Studies in English: 7th International IDEA Conference, Pamukkale University, Denizli-Turkey, April 17-19.
Gunes, A. (2013). An Analysis of Maxim Gorky’s Short Story Her Lover. 1st International Week on English Studies, Karabuk University, Karabuk-Turkey, May 27-31.
Gunes, A. (2014). Multiculturalism and Identity. The “University collaboration network at the Black Sea: common educational values” International Conference, October 9–11, Istanbul-Turkey.
Gunes, A. (2015). The Deconstruction of the Cartesian Dichotomy of Black and White in William Blake’s The Little Black Boy. 2nd International Week on English Studies, Karabuk University, Karabuk-Turkey, May 8-10.
Gunes, A. (2015). Are We What We Buy and What We Consume? Crisis of Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Decline of the West. 2nd International Conference on Education, Culture, and Identity: New Trends and Challenges of Today’s Europe, International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 15-16.
Gunes, A. (2016). Family in the 21st Century Europe. International Bezmialem Family Counselling Association (UBADDER), Istanbul-Turkey, March 26.
Gunes, A. (2016). Are Couples Really Happy after Divorce? An Analysis of the Negative Post-Divorce Effects in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Story Midnight All Day. The 3rd International English Studies Conference: Multiculturalism, Heritage, and English Studies, Karabuk University, Karabuk-Turkey, May 5-6.
Gunes, A. (2017). Wilfred Own Re-Visited: A Psychoanalytic Reading of War, Memory, and Crisis of Identity in Owen’s Poem Mental Cases. 16th International Cultural Studies Symposium, “Narratives of Trauma”, Ege University, Izmir-Turkey, May 10-12.
Gunes, A. (2017). Are We Destroying the Space That Nurtures and Embraces Us? Eco-critical Reading of Environmental Pollution in Kelly Roper’s Selected Poems. 1st International Conference on Explorations of Space in Literature: Constructing and Deconstructing the Boundaries, Gazi University, Ankara-Turkey, May 25-26.
Gunes, A. (2017). Tradition and Modernisation: Misplaced Binaries in the Study of Literature. 1st International Symposium on Modernization and Tradition in Language and Literature, Karabuk University, Karabuk-Turkey, October 4-6.
Gunes, A. (2017). The Deconstruction of ‘Metanarrative’ of Traditional Detective Fiction in Martin Amis’s Night Train: A Postmodern Reading. 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Identity, International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 12-13.
Gunes, A. (2019). Send [them] back to where [they] originally came from”: Donald Trump’s White Racial Supremacy and Brown Colour Politics and an Attempt to Cross the Borderline of “Othering” in Richard T. Eckhardt’s Poem Multicultural Flowers. 6th International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium, Erciyes University, Kayseri, TURKEY, November 20-21, 2019, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Nevşehir, TURKEY, November 22.
Gunes, A. (2021). Why Do Muslims Try to Migrate to the West? 3rd International Symposium of Critical and Analytic Thinking (ONLINE). Ankara, Turkey, December 4-5.
Gunes, A. (2021). COVID-19 and Online Education: An Analysis of How to Improve the Inequality of Students’ Access to Technology in Disadvantaged Regions. NAMA International Conference and Exhibition 2021 (ONLINE). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 6-7.
Gunes, A. (2022). Human Greediness and Negligence: A Critical Approach to Environmental Destruction in Dave Mottram’s Poem Mother Earth and Sylvia Stults’s Poem Awareness About Our Environment. LALTS: International Conference on English Literature, Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (Keynote Speech-Online), Karabuk University, Turkey, May 10-11.
Gunes, Ali, “Benefits of Critic-Analytic Thinking in Education and Profession.” NAMA Foundation Conference Series (Keynote Speech-Online), Malaysia, May 16, 2022.
Gunes, A. (2022). Student Adaptation Problems to the Post-Pandemic Situation and How to Build Back Better Turkish Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Period. 5th International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSSH2022): “Post-COVID-19 era: challenges and opportunities”, SKOPJE, 13-15 June.
Gunes, A. (2022). Critical Thinking in Media and Information Literacy. Celik Digital Symposium on Media & Information Literacy Across Nation (Online), Malaysia Pahang University, Malaysia, 3-5 October.
Gunes, A. (2023). New Trends in the Study of Literature. A Six-Day Online International Conference on Innovation in the Art of Teaching English Language and Literature: Venturing into New Frontiers-Transcending Boundaries with Progressive Ideas (Online- Keynote Speech), Presidency University, India, February 28-March 4.
Gunes, A. (2023). Literature and Islamophobia: The Distortion of the Images of Islam and Muslims in John Updike’s Terrorist. Fourth International Conference on Islamophobia: Examining The Cultural and Geopolitical Dimension of Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Countries. İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, İstanbul, Türkiye, March 11-13.
Gunes, A. (2023). The Importance of Soft Skills in Personal and Professional Growth: Nurturing Success in a Dynamic World. International Conference in Technology, Humanities and Management (ICTHM 2023) (Keynote Speech). Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye, June 12-13.
Books
Gunes, A. (2012). Modernism in English Literature: A Reader. Ankara: Savaş Kitap ve Yayınevi. ISBN: 978-605-5343-15-6
Gunes, A. (2007). Dark Fields of Civilisation: A Cultural and Ideological Approach to the Issues of Women in the Novels of Virginia Woolf. Ankara: Orient. ISBN: 978-974-6124-14-7
Elkilic, G., Selami A., & Gunes, A. (2002). Medical Passages & Vocabulary. Ankara: Hacettepe Tas. ISBN: 975-8506-20-X
Elkilic, G., Gunes, A., Bekis, K., Güngör, O. T., & Parlak, E. (2002). Essential English: A Communicative Approach. Kars: Ozkirtaylar.
Newspaper Articles
Gunes, Ali, ‘Subconscious Hitlerism’, Turkish Daily News, 1 August 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Is the “Clash of Civilization” Coming True?’, Turkish Daily News, 12 August 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Does a Nobel Prize have any value? Turkish Daily News, 19 August 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘A Conference in Spain’, Turkish Daily News, 19 September 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘The ‘Angel in the House’, Turkish Daily News, 9 October 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Armenian Discussions Again…’, Turkish Daily News, 21 October 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘The Official Ideology and Identity, The New Anatolian, 5 December 2006.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Erasmus Exchange Programme Makes Alliance of Civilization and Culture Possible’. The New Anatolian, 15 January 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Turkey and the EU: Slaves of their prejudices, fear, and fantasy of “Otherness”’, The New Anatolian, 31 January 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘What do we know about Poland?”, The New Anatolian, 03 April 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Whose asset is the state in Turkey? Turkish Daily News, 13 June 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Different Festival in Kars’, Turkish Daily News, 25 June 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Intellectual Identity and Human Alienation’, Turkish Daily News, 18 September 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Culture of Inferiority’, Turkish Daily News, 24 September 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘The Triumph of the English language’, Turkish Daily News, 23 November 2007.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Questions to Fazıl Say’, Turkish Daily News, 2 January 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Takva and life on the razor edge’, Turkish Daily News, 3 January 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Intellectuals in Turkey’, Turkish Daily News, 7 January 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Let’s give girls a chance’, Turkish Daily News, 29 January 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Listener rather than speaker’, Turkish Daily News, 11 February 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Was the Ottoman Empire, a colonizer?’, Turkish Daily News, 25 February 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘The Ottoman Empire (2)’, Turkish Daily News, 18 March 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Why are Muslim countries backward?’, Turkish Daily News, 25 June 2008.
Gunes, Ali, ‘Fundamentalism – I’, http://www.caybasihaber.com/aligunesyeni.htm
Gunes, Ali, ‘Fundamentalism – II’, http://www.caybasihaber.com/aligunesyeni1.htm
Gunes, Ali, ‘The Collapse of Enlightenment Age and The History Rewritten’, http://www.caybasihaber.com/aligunesyeni2.htm
Gunes, Ali, ‘Why does not Deniz Baykal visit the Palace?’, http://www.caybasihaber.com/aligunesyeni3.htm
Gunes, Ali, ‘To become the voice of those who are helpless’, http://www.ilkuvez.com/tr/yazar.asp?yaziID=334
Gunes, Ali, “Syrian refugees’ struggle for higher education”: http://www.yenisafak.com/en/dunya/syrian-refugees-struggle-for-higher-education-2795579
Gunes, Ali, “Foreign students and higher education in Turkey,” Yeni Safak, 17 October 2017. Available on: https://www.yenisafak.com/en/economy/foreign-students-and-higher-education-in-turkey-2796151
Gunes, Ali, “Protection of academic heritage in the Middle East,’ Daily Sabah, 31 October 2018. Available on: https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2018/11/01/protection-of-academic-heritage-in-the-middle-east
Gunes, Ali, “Unity of Muslims: an anti-imperialist stance,” Islam21c. (2019) https://www.islam21c.com/opinion/unity-of-muslims-an-anti-imperialist-stance/?sharex_&fbclid=IwAR2mFGo204p2OyvDKXWwAO2O24G85A98Qr0qHtD9PZAnhSC2ZU9DI9QoEmA
AWARDS AND HONORS
Mevlana Exchange Scholarship Awarded by Karabuk University for research and training at International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 15-22, 2014.
Erasmus Exchange Scholarship Awarded by Karabuk University for research and training at Ventspils University College, Latvia, September 19-21, 2012.
Erasmus Exchange Scholarship Awarded by Karabuk University for research and training at the language center called English Training Live, Vienna, Austria, July 17-23, 2011.
Erasmus/Socrates Exchange Scholarship Awarded by Kafkas University for research and teaching at Zilina University, Slovakia, April 16-23, 2007.
Erasmus/Socrates Exchange Scholarship Awarded by Kafkas University for research and teaching at “Higher Vocational Higher School in Wloclawek”, Poland, March 3-11, 2007.
Postgraduate Studies (MA and PhD) in England, Awarded by the Higher Education Council of Turkey, 1993.
