Faculty

Ayse Çelikkol

Assistant Professor of English

B.S., Bilkent University, Turkey
B.A., Beloit College
M.A., Ph.D., Rice University

Ayse Çelikkol completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Rice University after receiving undergraduate degrees from Bilkent University, Turkey, in electrical engineering and Beloit College in literary studies. Her fields are nineteenth-century British literature and culture, theories of nationhood and globalization, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and economics.

She is currently at work on a manuscript that examines nineteenth-century tropes of exchange in British literature and political economy, titled Figures of Free Trade in British Literature, 1814-1864. Drawing on textual representations of smuggling, exportation, and import consumerism, this project traces paradoxical formulations of the free trading subject as interdependent and autonomous. Çelikkol has written articles on Romanticism, Victorian poetry, and nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Her teaching interests include Victorian fiction and poetry, Romantic poetry, the history of the novel, and critical theory.

Areas of Study

• Nineteenth-century British literature
• Economic literary criticism
• Cosmopolitanism and globalization studies
• History of liberalism
• Interdisciplinary studies in literature and economics, literature and the philosophy of aesthetics

Major Publications

• "Aesthetic Predicaments, the Market Economy, and Stoddard's The Morgesons," American Literature 78 (March 2006): 29-57.
• "Dionysian Music and Patriotic Sentiment in Tennyson's Idylls of the King," Victorian Poetry 45 (Fall 2007): 239-56.
• "Free Trade and Disloyal Smugglers in Scott's Guy Mannering and Redgauntlet," ELH: English Literary History 74 (Winter 2007): 759-82.