Ceylan Köşker Bevington received her PhD in English Literature from Aberystwyth University, UK. She specialises in Victorian literature, with a particular focus on the gothic, the decolonisation of the canon, the reception of Victorian literature in Turkey, adaptation studies, comparative literature, and periodical culture. Her monograph Violet Fane: The Literary Identities of a Nineteenth-Century Poet and Novelist was published by Edward Everett Root Publishers in 2021.
She is currently working on a second book, The Cultural Influence of Long Nineteenth-Century British Novels on Turkish Literature and Cinema, which examines how Anglophone cultural imperialism shaped twentieth-century Turkish culture through the translation, adaptation, and cinematic reimagining of works such as The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Dracula.
Publications
• Violet Fane: The Literary Identities of the 19th-Century Poet and Novelist (Brighton: Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2021).
• (with Hatime Ciftci) ‘Pragmatics in Discourse’, Pragmatics and Language Teaching, ed. Şeyda Selen Çimen, Betül Bal Gezegin (Ankara: Pegem Akademi, 2021).
• ‘Violet Fane’, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, ed. Lesa Scholl (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_182-1
• ‘In Time of Disturbance: Political Dissonance and Subversion in Violet Fane’s Contributions to the Lady’s Realm’, Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Period (The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in Britain, Volume 2), ed. Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, Beth Rodgers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 516-527.
• ‘Violet Fane’, Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction, ed. Kevin A. Morrison (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018).