Assoc. Prof. MARGARET JEANNE M. SÖNMEZ

Academic Positions 3

2017 - Continues Associate Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
2005 - 2018 Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
1993 - 2005 Assistant Professor

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education

Managerial Experience 4

2022 - Continues Coordinator

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
2015 - 2016 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education
2005 - 2010 coordinator

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education
2005 - 2008 Deputy Head of Department

Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education

Supervised Theses 51

Representations of familial transgressions and moral injury in the novels of Daniel Defoe

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.SERHATTI(Student), Doctorate, 2022
Hybridity and heterotopias in China Miéville's weird world of Bas-Lag

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ö.BARIŞCAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Neither a mother nor an other: Nature's literary emancipation in William Golding's lord of the flies and Louise Erdrich's Tracks

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

R.ELİF(Student), Postgraduate, 2022
Epic gaze in Paradise Lost

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.DEMİREL(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Hospitality, multiculturalism and narrative agency in Abdulrazak Gurnah's by the sea, the last gift and gravel heart

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

L.SOLEYMANZADEH(Student), Doctorate, 2021
Woolf in Space: Subversive interventions in the contemporary spatial constructions and discourses of the dominant socio-spatial order in Virginia Woolf's fiction

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

R.ÖZKAYA(Student), Doctorate, 2021
Psychic spaces in three plays by Samuel Beckett the abjected semiotic intruding into the symbolic

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

B.DEMİR(Student), Postgraduate, 2021
Dialectical oscillations in Keats: A Kristevan reading of Endymion, Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

G.ALBAYRAK(Student), Doctorate, 2019
Literary encoding of modernist alienation in the language and spaces of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Sadeq Hedayat’s the Blind Owl

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.Najafıbabanazar(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Othering in Chris Cleave’s novels incendiary, little bee, and everyone brave is forgiven

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

A.Tekşen(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Convergence of text and reader: A study of textual strategies and the formation of configurative meaning in selected works of fiction

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.SHADI(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Othering in Chris Cleave's novels Incendiary, Little Bee, and Everyone Brave is Forgiven

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

A.TEKŞEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2018
Literary encoding of modernist alienation in the language and spaces of James Joyce's Ulysses and Sadeq Hedayat's the blind owl

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.NAJAFIBABANAZAR(Student), Doctorate, 2018
Local feminisms: a comparative analysis of feminist literary theory and practice in the 1970s in Britain, America, and Turkey

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ş.AKDOĞAN(Student), Doctorate, 2016
Dickens's bleak house and the old curiosity shop: A reading through things

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

E.BİLEN(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Dickens’s Bleak house and The Old curiosity shop: a reading through things

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

E.Bilen(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
The moral dimension of disguise and role-playing in Ben Jonson's Volpone, The Alchemist and The Silent Woman

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ç.TEKİN(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
The moral dimension of disguise and role-playing in Ben Jonson’s volpone, the alchemist and the silent woman

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ç.Tekin(Student), Postgraduate, 2015
Postnationalist subversion of the constituents of Irishness: Land, religion and family in the plays of Martin Mcdonagh and Dermot Bolger

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

S.ÖRMENGÜL(Student), Doctorate, 2015
An analysis of the political approach of John Dryden's plays and their appraisal through the ideas of Edmund Burke

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

P.JEREMY(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Archival texts and bodies in Thomas Hardy’s and E.M. Forster’s short stories

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

E.KORKUT(Student), Doctorate, 2014
An Analysis of the political approach of John Dryden’s plays and their appraisal through the ideas of Edmund Burke /

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

P.Jeremy(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Light and darkness images in relation to emotions in John Milton's Paradise Lost

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

S.DOĞAN(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Realisms and working women in the novels of Gaskell and Brontë /

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

R.KAHVECİ(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
The revival of romantic utopianism in rock lyrics of the 1960s

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

R.BAL(Student), Doctorate, 2014
Light and darkness images in relation to emotions in John Milton’s paradise lost /

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

S.Doğan(Student), Postgraduate, 2014
Rethinking diaspora as heterotopia in works of Anita Deasi, Kamala Markandaya and Meera Syal

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ş.Okuroğlu(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Evil in fairy tales across cultures: A study of Turkish and British fairy tales from a psychological perspective

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

G.BÜYÜ(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Rethinking Diaspora as Heterotopia in works of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Meera Syal

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ş.OKUROĞLU(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Metadrama, theatricality and performativity in Samuel Beckett's late plays

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

H.EŞBERK(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Metadrama, theatrıcalıty and performatıvıty ın samuel beckett’s late plays

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Co-Advisor), İÇÖZ N. (Co-Advisor)

H.Eşberk(Student), Doctorate, 2013
Othering and Hybridity in Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.Turasan(Student), Postgraduate, 2013
Reconceptualisation of realism in British postwar fiction: the cases of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark ve John Fowles

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

B.Mete(Student), Doctorate, 2011
A bakhtinian analysis of William Golding’s rites of passage: heteroglossia, polyphony and the carnivalesque in the novel

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

U.Tuğlu(Student), Postgraduate, 2011
"Female identity”: rewritings of Greek and Biblical myths by contemporary women writers

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.Başak(Student), Doctorate, 2011
The portrayal of universal harmony and order in Edmund Spenser’s Fowre Hymnes

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

B.Tekin(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
The relationship between narrative strategies and meaning in William Golding’s the inheritors, pincher martin and free fall

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.Zeki(Student), Doctorate, 2010
Gothic elements in sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.Çağlıyan(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
Representation of nature in D.H. Lawrence's women in love and the plumed serpent and Virginia Woolf's the voyage out and Orlando: a biography

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ş.Akdoğan(Student), Postgraduate, 2010
The end: the apocalyptic in in-yer-face drama

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.Bal(Student), Doctorate, 2009
Theatricality and the chronotope in "The Magus" by J. Fowles and "England, England" by J. Barnes

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

A.Filimonova(Student), Postgraduate, 2009
An ecofeminist approach to Atwood’s surfacing, lessing’s the cleft and winterson’s The Stone Gods

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.Bilgen(Student), Postgraduate, 2008
“From the root of the old one” : reconfiguring individual and collective identities in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean poetry

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

Ö.Türe(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
A Julia Kristevan analysis of Emily Dickinson and John Milton

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

M.Sarıkaya(Student), Postgraduate, 2007
The roles of male sexual predators in the novels of austen, charlotte and anne brontë, and gaskell

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

A.Kuglin(Student), Doctorate, 2007
Imagination, metaphor and mythopoeia the poetry of three major English romantic poets

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

F.Karadaş(Student), Doctorate, 2007
Jungian archetypes in samuel beckett's trilogy

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

H.Kızılcık(Student), Postgraduate, 2005
Sense through nonsense reading difficult poetry

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

B.Taşkesen(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
The relationship between the individual and nature in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

R.Bal(Student), Postgraduate, 2004
Self-reflexivity in postmodernist texts : a comparative study of the works of John Fowles and Orhan Pamuk

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

S.Saraçoğlu(Student), Doctorate, 2003
Control of the readers in Jane Austen's novels Emma and sense and sensibility

SÖNMEZ M. J. M. (Advisor)

G.Erdoğan(Student), Postgraduate, 2003

Academic and Administrative Experience

2017 - Continues Associate Professor

2005 - 2018 Assistant Professor

1993 - 2005 Assistant Professor

2022 - Continues Coordinator

2015 - 2016 Deputy Head of Department

2005 - 2010 coordinator

2005 - 2008 Deputy Head of Department