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Professor
of Sociology
Department
of Sociology
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
E-mail: meyda@metu.edu.tr
Short biography
Meyda Yegenoglu is Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, Turkey.
She teaches in the field of postcolonial theory, globalization, cultural
studies, orientalism, contemporary critical theory. She has been a visiting
professor and taught at numerous institutions such as New
York University, Rutgers University,
University of Vienna,
Oxford University
and Oberlin College.Published work
She has published several
articles on orientalism, postcoloniality, nationalism, social theory and
feminism in various journals such as Culture
and Religion, Postmodern Culture and
Ethnic and Racial Studies. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of
Orientalism (Cambridge UP, 1998). She has edited a special
journal issue on “Orientalism and Cultural Difference”, Inscriptions, No 6, (co-edited with Mahmut Mutman), Journal
published by the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa
Cruz, 1992. Her article have also appeared in edited volumes such as Reina Lewis and Sara Mills (eds), Feminism and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader,
Edinburgh University Press, 2003 and in Kwok, Pui-lan and Donaldson E. Laura
(eds), Postcolonialism, Feminism and
Religious Discourse, New York and London: Routledge, 2002. She is
currently working on a book on globalization, migrancy, and European Union.