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    Citation Count: Üstündağ Güvenç, Ö.; Sağlam, B.; Çakırlar, Ö.; Uzundemir, Ö. (2022). "Changes in the Teaching of Literature: A Study of Practices in the English Language and Literature Department at Çankaya University during the COVID-19 Pandemic", Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, Vol.29, No.1, pp.53-65.
    Changes in the Teaching of Literature: A Study of Practices in the English Language and Literature Department at Çankaya University during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (2022) Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge; Sağlam, Berkem; Çakırlar, Özkan; Uzundemir, Özlem; 18329; 32109; 105401; 49324; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, academics and students have had to respond to the unexpected and unplanned shift from face-to-face to online teaching. Since teaching and learning through online portals has been a new experience, this has prompted the academics in the English Language and Literature Department at Çankaya University to seek alternative and creative ideas to promote student productivity, participation and motivation. The aim of this case study is to discuss how the course materials, teaching methods and assessment have been redesigned to meet the needs of online education during the pandemic. With the examples from changes in the syllabi, student survey and sample student responses, this study also reveals how the academics in the department have had an opportunity to re-evaluate systems of teaching both on and offline and to refresh their role as instructors.
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    Citation Count: Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge (2019). "Configuration of Transient Shelters as Alternative Spaces through Nomadic Acts in Doris Lessing’s “An Old Woman and Her Cat”", Folklor/Edebiyat, Vol. 25, No. 99, pp. 605-622.
    Configuration of Transient Shelters as Alternative Spaces through Nomadic Acts in Doris Lessing’s “An Old Woman and Her Cat”
    (2019) Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    Doris Lessing’s short story “An Old Woman and Her Cat” from her collection, The Temptation of Jack Orkney, revolves around the nomadic experiences of an old and homeless woman in various places and her survival under poor living circumstances with her cat. The places occupied by the old woman in this story such as the Council flats, the room in the slum and the ruined flat in a wealthy neighbourhood cannot be considered as proper homes where people have a sense of belonging; rather, they are just material places she tries to appropriate as shelters temporarily on the way without a feeling of warmth and attachment to them. Focusing on the woman and the cat’s relationship with their surrounding provides a discussion on space and nomadism within the framework of Henri Lefebvre’s spatial tripartite - the perceived, the conceived and the lived - which is related to Rosi Braidotti’s theory on nomadism. It also reveals the social norms and values, which disregard an old woman and her cat’s struggle for life in a metropolis. Therefore, this article aims to discuss not only the material qualities of transient places in London and their conceived perspective which segregates the poor and the homeless from the wealthy but also the old woman’s configuration of alternative spaces for herself out of the ruins without a sense of home.
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    Citation Count: Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge (2020). "Rhythmanalysis in doris lessing's "storms": London from a critical view of everyday life", Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, Vol. 8, No. 14, pp. 25-39.
    Rhythmanalysis in doris lessing's "storms": London from a critical view of everyday life
    (2020-06) Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    The interaction between humans and space has recently been one of the dominant issues in the works of the contemporary century to explain how thinking about space as a fixed and limiting framework has evolved to an alternative multidimensional understanding of it where human interventions create alternative space. This study aims not only to move beyond the setting descriptions in a literary text but also to open up Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space, particularly his notion of rhythmanalysis, that have been utilized in the fields of architecture, sociology, geography, urban and regional planning to include literature as well. To this end, Doris Lessing’s sketch, “Storms” from the collection London Observed: Stories and Sketches, will be analysed since it displays various life trajectories in London and provides a critical view of the city from two different perspectives –that of the taxi driver and of the narrator –which contradict each other. Focusing on their interpretations of London and to what extent they are able to sense and make meaning of rhythms, thus, offers a new mode of observing the movement and continuity of life in the city, which also displays the relationship between humans and the spaces they occupy, and what feelings they attribute to.
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    Citation Count: Güvenç, Özge (2016). "SUBVERSION OF THE BINARIES BASED ON CLASS AND GENDER IN KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S "THE GARDEN PARTY", Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 231-240.
    SUBVERSION OF THE BINARIES BASED ON CLASS AND GENDER IN KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S “THE GARDEN PARTY"
    (2016) Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı
    Katherine Mansfield’s contribution to the development of short story genre in English literature is based on her use of narrative techniques, especially that of focalization. In her short story “The Garden Party” which recounts the story of the upper-class Sheridan family’s garden party preparations, Mansfield challenges issues related to class and gender from the main character Laura’s focalisation. In this initiation story, Laura starts questioning the roles attributed to an upper-class woman right after she meets the workers who come to make the preparations for the party. Her dilemma about her class comes to a climactic point when she learns the death of a working class neighbour, Mr. Scott, and visits his funeral home. Through the juxtaposition of these two classes from the viewpoint of a female adolescent, Mansfield not only criticises the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie, but also roles expected from a woman. The aim of this article, then, is to discuss Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” with respect to the theory of deconstruction to show how the writer problematizes logocentrism by subverting the binary oppositions based on class and gender.
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    Citation Count: Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge (2022). "Transformation of Private Space into Social Space in Doris Lessing’s “Getting off the Altitude"", Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol.39, No.1, pp.347-358.
    Transformation of Private Space into Social Space in Doris Lessing’s “Getting off the Altitude"
    (2022-10-25) Üstündağ Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
    Doris Lessing’s two collections of African Stories – This Was the Old Chief’s Country (1952) and The Sun Between Their Feet (1973) – exemplify the theme of colonialism displaying the hegemony of the whites over the blacks. The stories in the former collection are mainly about colonial issues, while the ones in the latter cover a variety of subjects such as racial and gender conflicts, power of nature and effects of the Second World War. Since geographical features of Africa have a significant role in shaping social and cultural values, the interconnectedness between space and gender is also a fundemental issue in these stories. “Getting off the Altitude” from her collection, The Sun Between Their Feet, recounts the story of how white settler community in Central Africa deals with the problem of alienation due to physical characteristics of the area. The spatially enclosed structure of the society on one hand, preserves the social norms and values but at the same time leads to non-conformist relationships between the genders. The impact of the altitude in the district is also observed in the way the society is structured and gender relations are performed. With respect to this, the story shows not only how space is perceived as a physical reality where everyday life takes place but also how it is conceived as a space of thoughts which defines relations and confines people into certain places. What differentiates “Getting off the Altitude” from the other stories in the collection is related to the multiplicity of male and female characters and their lived experiences, which pave the way for new modes of thinking about space. This study, through its portrayal of spatial practices and everyday experiences of various characters, discusses to what extent they are able to appropriate and configure spaces they occupy in different ways and how they transform the private sphere of a house from its restrictive conceptualisation to alternative ones within the framework of Henri Lefebvre’s and Edward Soja’s space theories.
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    Citation Count: Güvenç, Özge (2014). "William Blake and William Wordsworth’s Reactions to the Industrial Revolution", Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 113-123.
    William Blake and William Wordsworth’s Reactions to the Industrial Revolution
    (2014) Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı