Dr. Sebnem Duzgun 

Visiting Fellow

Sebnem Duzgun is Assistant Professor of English Translation and Interpretation at Ankara Science University and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. She is currently studying with Professor Stephen Bending on the politicization of space in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall.

Dr Sebnem Duzgun graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Ankara University in 2011. She received her MA degree in English Language and Literature at the same university in 2013. In 2017, she was awarded a PhD degree in English Culture and Literature at Atılım University for her dissertation entitled “A Study of Utopic Discourse in Sarah Scott’s A Description of Millennium Hall, Florence Dixie’s Gloriana; Or, The Revolution of 1900, and Fay Weldon’s Darcy’s Utopia.” Her main research interests include 18th- and 19th-century English literature, utopia, dystopia, science fiction, women’s literature, and gender studies. She is the author of book chapters on Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and P. D. James’s The Children of Men, and of several scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles. She also wrote a play- Poor Cat (Opaline Magazine, 2018).