(Non)Human Bodies

İnci Bilgin Tekin (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at İstanbul Bilgi University, EnglishDepartment. Bilgin Tekin is the author of two books as well as articles on mythology,adaptation and reception studies, postcolonial and feminist literature, contemporarydrama, Shakespeare studies and posthumanism.Özden Sözalan (Ph.D.) is Professor and Head of English Department at İstanbul BilgiUniversity. She has published books and articles on contemporary theories of literatureand theatre. Her recent research interest involves environmental literature.

• Özden SözalanIntroduction Sinem YazıcıoğluThe Urban Body in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” İnci Bilgin TekinAn Old Debate, New Perspectives: Cherrie Moraga’s and CarylChurchill’s Dialogues with Nature Nilay Kaya and Ekin Gündüz ÖzdemirciEmbodied Anthropocentrism in Anatolian Novel and Film Burcu Kayışcı AkkoyunIntersections, Interventions, and Utopian Pessimism in Son Ada(The Last Island) Ayşe Beyza ArtukarslanThe Cat, the Cock, the Maid and Zeberjet: The Animals ofMotherland Hotel Zeynep Talay TurnerGrizzly Man: From the Ethics of Film to the Ethics of theAnimal-Other Canan ŞavkayThe Precarious Lives of Cats in Doris Lessing’s On Cats Ferdi ÇetinDecentering the Human on Stage: Neither as Posthumanist Opera Özlem KaradağEcofeminist Ecopoetics and Carol Ann Duffy Notes on the Contributors