ChatLive: Beyond the Bridge: Connection or Separation?
Join CapU instructor Hande Gürses at noon on Oct. 17 for a discussion of her first monograph, Beyond the Bridge: Connection or Separation?
ChatLive is a series of informal discussions where CapU students explore relevant subjects with CapU instructors.
Students who attend a minimum of three days will earn a notation on their transcript.
About Hande Gürses
Hande Gürses, originally from Istanbul, is a scholar of comparative literature. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from University College London.
Her primary research interests include contemporary world literature, cosmopolitanism, ecocriticism and critical animal studies. She is also interested in inclusive pedagogies and contemplative practices in higher education.
She taught courses on international short stories, migration, dystopian literature and ecocriticism. She co-edited a volume on ecocritical approaches to contemporary Turkish literature, titled Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film (Routledge Press, 2019).
In her first monograph, Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge (Lexington Press, 2023) she studies the imagery of the bridge in the construction and representation of distinct identity categories.
She has held positions at UMass Amherst, University of Toronto, Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University. Currently, she is teaching at Capilano University in North Vancouver.
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