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 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, cosmopolitanism and globalization studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and economics.

She is currently completing a manuscript titled, Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Political Economy and the Global Nineteenth Century, which examines economic debates on the limits of state authority and the literary effort to represent border-defying commercial networks. In this project, Çelikkol shows that some present-day sentiments about economic globalization-concerns about the dissolution of borders and the decline of patriotism-existed in nascent form in the nineteenth century and that literary techniques helped to represent and assess them. She has recently started to work on a second book-length project that centers on Victorian literature, secularity, and the philosophy of science. She has published articles on Romanticism, Victorian poetry, and nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Her teaching interests include the history of the novel, Victorian Studies, and critical theory.

Areas of Study

• Nineteenth-century British literature
• Cosmopolitanism and globalization studies
• History of liberalism
• Interdisciplinary studies in literature and economics

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.

Fall 2009 Courses

• Introduction to the Novel
• Seminar in British Authors: Charles Dickens

Past Macalester Courses

• Novel
• Literature and Sexuality: Subversive Sexualities
• Mapping the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
• British Romanticism
• Two Nations: Poverty and Affluence in Victorian Literature
• Marxist Literary Criticism
• Studies in Literature - Beyond Homeland: Overseas Travel in Literature
• The Romantic Period: Gothic Literature in Britain, 1765-1847
• Seminars in British Authors: Charles Dickens
• Cosmopolitanism in Victorian Literature and Culture
• A History of the Historical Novel