Curriculum Vitae

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Professional activity

1979-1983

Freelance translator and interpreter, also German teacher at a foreign language institute in Istanbul

1984-1989

Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Language Didactics German at Istanbul University

Since 1984

Translation and editing of translations of articles and books - texts from various fields such as sociology, law, philosophy and psychology as well as fiction by authors Crista Wolf, Norbert Elias, Jan Assmann, Peter Weiss, Franz Kafka and others.

Since 1985

Academic articles and papers (focusing on topics such as the translation process, translation history, intercultural communication, literary translation, disaster interpreting, etc.)

1987-1992

Co-editor of the journal for cultural and translation issues "Metis Çeviri"

1989-1994

Junior professor at the Department of German Language Didactics at Istanbul University

1989-1990

Military service as a translator and interpreter at the Military Cartography Office

1994

Participated in the founding of the Department of Translatology at Istanbul University

1994-2000

Lecturer and Head of the Department of Translatology at Istanbul University

2000-2009

Professor in the Department of Translatology at Istanbul University and head of the department

Since 2003

Quality control of the Turkish translations of the German-language magazine "Deutschland" and its website)

Since 2009

Teaching activities at various universities (Istanbul, Okan, Marmara, Sakarya)

2015-2017

Lecturer at the Yaşar University in İzmir

2018-2019

Visiting professor at the University of Kassel in Germany

Secondary occupations

1975-1976

Student representative as foreigner representative of the ASTA at TH Darmstadt

1976-1979

Member and temporary board member of the "Turkish Cultural Center" association in Darmstadt

Since 1984

Specialist translations (especially of business and legal texts) and translation and co-creation of literary translations

Since 1992

Occasional consulting for several publishers in matters of text and translator selection

Since 2000

Involved in the initiation and management of the disaster interpreting project

2000-2003

Member of the steering committee of the IAHEP (Istanbul Earthquake Disaster Preparedness Education Project)

Since 2001

Reviewer of several academic journals in the fields of literature and applied linguistics

2001-2014

Board member and chairman of the Association for Translation and Interpreting

Since 2013

Participation in the translator initiative "Translate for Justice", which informs the international public through translations on a voluntary basis

Since 2014

Co-founder and member of the Cooperative for Scientific Research, Application and Education (BİLARK) (Turkey)

Since 2018

Coordinator of the working group for the development of standards for translator and interpreter qualifications

Since 2021

Board member of the Association for Translation and Interpreting

Scholarships, research stays, visiting professorship

1987-1988

10-month research stay as a DAAD scholarship holder at Saarland University

1993-1994

13-month research stay as a Humboldt Fellow at the Department of Applied Cultural and Linguistic Studies in Germersheim (University of Mainz) and at the Institute for Youth Literature Research at the J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt/M.

1995

One month working stay in Berlin, Förderungsgesellschaft Wissenschaftliche Neuvorhaben m.b.H.

2002

Three-month research stay and guest professorship in Turkish at the University of Essen

2006

One-month research stay at the Department of German Studies at the University of Paderborn

Memberships

Association of Scientists (Turkey)

Association of the German-Turkish Cultural Advisory Board (Istanbul)

Citizens' Association for the Promotion of Urbanity and Solidarity in the Validebağ District (Istanbul)

Association of Researchers of Literature and Culture of Children and Youth (Turkey)

Translation and Interpreting Association (Turkey) (Çeviri Derneği)

Professional Association for Copyright Rights of Translators (Turkey) (Çev Bir)

International Peter Weiss Society

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