Türkan OLCAY is a Doctor of Philological Sciences (2002) and Full
Professor (2012) at the Department of Russian Language and
Literature at Istanbul University where she delivers courses
on 19th-Century Russian Literature since 1994 and mentors
master’s and doctoral students. She has also taught as a visiting professor
at Anadolu University (Türkiye), L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National
University (Kazakhstan), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
(Bulgaria), Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and Jagiellonian
University (Poland).
Prof. Dr. OLCAY’s fields of specialization are
19th-Century Russian literature and Turkish-Russian cultural and literary
relations, as well as the life and socio-cultural activities of the Russian
immigrants (known as "White Russians") in Istanbul in the
1920’s. She has participated in many conferences, has authored five books and
has written numerous publications including over hundred articles and book
chapters. She is the editor-in-chief of the collective works “Russkaya
belaya emigratsiya v Turtsii vek spustya 1919-2019” [Russian White Immigration
in Turkey: a Century Later 1919-2019”], Moscow: A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russia
Abroad, 2019 (in Russian) and “Beyaz Rusların Gelibolu Gurbetinin 100. Yıldönümü”
[The 100th Anniversary of the White Russians’ Exile in Gallipoli], Çanakkale: ÇOMU,
2020 (in Turkish).
Prof. Dr. OLCAY has been carring out
institutional and departmental administrative duties, serving on the editorial
boards of leading international journals and is a member of the Expert Council
of the Center for Turkish-Russian Cooperation in the field of research and
practice TURUSIA at Chanakkale 18 March University.
- turolcay@istanbul.edu.tr
- Web Page
- http://aves.istanbul.edu.tr/turolcay
- Office Phone
- +90 212 455 5700 Extension: 15992
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- +90 212 512 2140
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- Address
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Balabanağa Mah. Ordu Cad. No:196, Slav Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, Ofis 453, 34134 Laleli, Fatih – İstanbul