Doç.Dr. YİĞİT SÜMBÜL

Biyografi

Yiğit Sümbül was born in Tarsus in 1990. He received his B.A. (2008-2012) from Hacettepe University’s Department of English Language and Literature. He was appointed as research assistant to Erciyes University's Department of English Language and Literature where he completed his M.A. (2012-2014) with a comparative thesis on modernist works of James Joyce and Oğuz Atay. He worked as a research assistant (2014-2018) at Gazi University's Department of English Language and Literature and completed his Ph.D. (2014-2018) at Ankara University's Department of English Language and Literature with a dissertation on selected plays of Howard Barker. He received his second B.A. degree (2014-2018) from İstanbul University's Department of Philosophy and his second M.A degree (2018-2021) from Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University's Department of Philosophy. He conducted post-doctoral research (October 2019-October 2020) at University of Southampton on contemporary British drama. He is currently doing his second PhD at Ankara University’s Department of Philosophy with a dissertation on the various implications of the death of the other and mourning and conducting doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Philosophy. He received his associate professorship from the Turkish Interuniversity Board in 2023 and has been working as an associate professor at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University's Department of English Language and Literature ever since. His research and teaching span all periods of English Literature and Philosophy with a focus on contemporary English drama, contemporary English poetry, comparative literature and contemporary continental philosophy.