Prof. Dr. Türkan Olcay

Prof. Dr. Türkan Olcay graduated from the Department of Russian Philology (second specialization Bulgarian Language and Literature) in the Faculty of Pedagogy at Plovdiv University "Paisi Hilendarski" in 1987. In 1994, Olcay started teaching at the Department of Russian Language and Literature in the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. She completed her Master’s degree in Russian Language and Literature at Istanbul University in 1997, and received her doctoral degree at Ankara University in 2002. Olcay became an Assistant Professor in 2002, Associate Professor in 2006, and full Professor in 2012 at Istanbul University. Olcay served as a guest professor at Anadolu University in Eskishehir in 2013. She has been teaching her major and counseling master’s and doctoral dissertations at Istanbul University. She served as the Head of the Department of Polish Language and Literature. Currently, Prof. Olcay serves as the Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature; and the Head of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Prof. Olcay is one of the Board Committee Members in the Faculty of Letters as well as a Board Committee Member in the Institute of Social Sciences. She has participated in many national and international conferences and written numerous publications including above 50 articles and 4 books.

Books:
Rus Edebiyatında Doğalcı Okul. Istanbul: İ. Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi, 2003.(ISBN 975-404-705-7)
Razvitiye reçi. (çast 1) (Sözlü ve Yazılı Anlatım, 1. Bölüm), Istanbul: İ. Ü. Edebiyat Fakültesi, 2003. (ISBN 975-404- 697-2)
İvan S. Turgenyev. Istanbul: Tabevi Yayınları, 2005. (ISBN 975-6542-69-1)
Russkaya literatura pervoy polovinıy XIX veka, Çantay. Istanbul, 2011. (ISBN 978-975-9060-79-4)