I am an Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Adıyaman University, Türkiye. I am specializing in English Literature and Comparative Literature, primarily focusing on modernist poetry, identity, gender studies, and literary theory. My current research focuses particularly on poetic form, ambiguity, literary interpretation, and the relationship between literature and its historical and cultural contexts. My academic work includes research publications, international teaching experience, and the supervision of undergraduate research projects.
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2026 | CoEH - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (The Council of Higher Education - DOSAP)
Council of Higher Education (CoEH-YÖK), Türkiye
Awarded for a six-month research visit to the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Fellowship subsequently relinquished due to family visa restrictions.
2016–2022 | TÜBİTAK 2211-E – Direct Domestic PhD Scholarship Programme
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)
2013–2015 | TÜBİTAK 2228-A – Graduate Scholarship Programme for Final-Year Undergraduate Students
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS AND ACADEMIC INVITATIONS
2026 | University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Academic Visitor – Accepted (Visit Not Undertaken)
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Planned Period: March–August 2026
Research Project Subject: Modern and Modernist English Poetry
The proposed research visit was formally accepted but could not be undertaken due to family visa restrictions.
INTERNATIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
November 2025 | International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching
Delivered lectures on Modernist Poetry as part of the Erasmus+ teaching mobility programme
PUBLICATIONS
Thesis/Dissertations
(2022). A Historical Reading of the Imagist Poems of Ülkü Tamer and William Carlos Williams. Doctoral Dissertation. Erciyes University Institute of Social Sciences. Kayseri/Türkiye.
(2015). Symbolism in the Poems of William Butler Yeats and Ahmet Haşi̇m. Master’s Thesis. Erciyes University Institute of Social Sciences. Kayseri/Türkiye.
Conference Presentations
Sayar, Ö. (2026). “Questioning and Unveiling the Reality of Borders and Boundaries in ‘Strange Meeting’”. 11th International KTUDELL Conference on Language, Literature, and Translation. Karadeniz Technical University. Trabzon/Türkiye. 7–9 October 2026.
Sayar, Ö. (2025). “Vera Brittain’in Seçme Şiirlerinde Aile ve Savaş”. Edebiyatta Aile Sempozyumu: Türk ve İngiliz Edebiyatlarında Ailenin Yansımaları. Adıyaman University. Adıyaman/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2024). “Technology and Pavlovian Conditioning Technique United: Shaping Individual Identity at Early Ages in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World”. Söylem 3. International Philology Conference. Muğla/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2023). “Appearance vs. Reality in Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning””. 9th International Conference on Narrative and Language Studies. Trabzon/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2022). “Rene Wellek: A Cornerstone in Comparative Literature”. 2. International Black Sea Modern Scientific Research Congress. Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2022). “Imagism or "Amy"gism: The Role of Amy Lowell in the Imagist Movement”. 2. International Black Sea Modern Scientific Research Congress. Türkiye.
Karakuzu, M. and Sayar, Ö. (2019). “The Unheard Subaltern in the Grip of Corruption: Borders and Identity in “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid”. 6th International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium. Kayseri/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2018). “An Analysis of “The Little Prince” in the Light of “The Second Coming””. International Social Sciences Conference. Kayseri/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2018). “Considering Iago in The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor Of Venice as The Baobab Tree Antoine De Saint Exupery’s Little Prince Describes”. International Social Sciences Conference. Kayseri/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2017). “The Function Of Memory In William Butler Yeats’ Poems”. 5th International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium. Sivas/Türkiye.
Sayar, Ö. (2015). “The Subaltern is not Allowed to Speak in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Or The Royal Slave”. 1.
Language, Culture and Literature Workshop. Antalya/Türkiye.
Books/Book Chapters
Sayar, Ö. (2025). “Vera Brittain’in Seçme Şiirlerinde Aile ve Savaş”. In Edebiyatta Aile: Türk ve İngiliz Edebiyatlarındaki Yansımalarıyla Aile (pp. 197–209). Kriter Publishing.
Sayar, Ö. (2024). The Imagist Movement in Poetry: A Revolution in Words and Verse. Kriter Publishing.
Sayar, Ö. (2024). “The ‘New Woman’ as a Part of American Essence in William Carlos Williams’s “Woman Walking”” in Günce Filoloji Çalışmaları II. Günce Yayınları.
Karakuzu, M. and Sayar, Ö. (2021). “A Speaking Subaltern from A Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid” in Exploring Border and Boundaries in the Humanities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Articles
Sayar, Ö. (2025). A Historical Overview of the Development of Comparative Literature as a Discipline. The Journal of Academic Social Science (No. 171), pp. 212–221.
Sayar, Ö. (2024). Speaking with the Dead: New Historicism, Its Roots and Development as an Epoch-making Approach. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi (no.14) p. 1235-1252.
Sayar, Ö. (2018). The Tradition and Chekhov's Individual Talent in Adapting Ibsen's The Wild Duck in The Seagull. Cogito (Vol. X, no. 4). p. 130-142.
Sayar, Ö. (2018). The Irrepressible Oedipus Complex in The Seagull. Euromentor (Volume IX, No. 4). p. 72-84.
Akçeşme, B. and Sayar, Ö. (2017). A Foucauldian Response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: The Subaltern Can Speak in The Penelopiad. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) (Vol. 5 No. 9). p. 19-33.
Sayar, Ö. (2017). The Identity Crisis in between Mastery and Subalternity: An Analysis of Symbols in Waiting For The Barbarians From Postcolonial Perspective. Cogito (Vol. IX, no. 1). p. 144-153.
Sayar, Ö. (2017). “Porphyria's Lover” as an Improvisation of “The Sick Rose”. Cogito (Vol. IX, no. 4). p. 101-110.
Sayar, Ö. (2017). The Effects of Quizzes on Homework. Euromentor (Volume VIII, No.3). p. 84-96.
Karakuzu, M. and Sayar, Ö. (2016). A Comparative Analysis of the Conditions in the Romantic and Victorian Ages and Their Reflection in the Poems: The Chimney Sweeper (1789, 1794) by William Blake and The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Cogito (Vol. VIII, no. 4). p. 105-110.
SUPERVISED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS
TÜBİTAK 2209-A – Undergraduate Research Projects Support Programme
2025 | Woman, Death, and Existence: A Comparative Analysis of Sylvia Plath's “Lady Lazarus” and Nilgün Marmara's “How Many More Times Shall I Die Here?”
Role: Academic Supervisor
Student Researchers: Helin Güven and Ayşe Fatma Yurdagül
Project Period: April–July 2025
Status: Completed
2026 | Materialism and Childhood: An Analysis of D. H. Lawrence's “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
Role: Academic Supervisor
Student Researchers: Ömer Burak İnan and Yasemin Alkan
2026 | Environmental Consciousness in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: An Ecocritical Analysis
Role: Academic Supervisor
Student Researchers: Yunus Daş, Halime Gök and Damla Naz
2026 | Industrialisation and Children in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's “The Cry of the Children”
Role: Academic Supervisor
Student Researcher: Miray Damla Songur
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
January 2026 - September 2026 | Assistant Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator
Adıyaman University, Türkiye
2024–2025 | Assistant Coordinator, Project Development and Coordination Office
Adıyaman University, Türkiye
2023–2024 | Deputy Director, Turkish Language Teaching Application and Research Centre (TÖMER)
Adıyaman University, Türkiye
Since December 2023 | Faculty Board Member
Faculty of Science and Letters, Adıyaman University, Türkiye
Adıyaman Üniversitesi