{"id":3772,"date":"2021-12-18T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=3772"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:29:45","slug":"faculty-members-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/faculty-members-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Members"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/strong>Matthew Helm<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

PhD in English from the University of Iowa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, mass media and communications, world literature and transnationalism, queer\/trans theory, LGBT+ history, drama and performance<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> matthew.helm@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone:<\/strong> +90 (312) 290
\nOffice:<\/strong> G<\/p>\n

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Britain Hopkins<\/a>\"\"
\nAssistant Professor<\/strong><\/h2>\n

DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of interest<\/strong>: Debt and indebtedness, financialization and market governance, histories and geographies of liberalism, critical theory and cultural studies<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong>\u00a0britain.hopkins@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone:\u00a0<\/strong>+90 (312) 290 15 52
\nOffice:\u00a0<\/strong>G-114A
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Thomas Howard<\/a>
\nAssistant Professor\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

PhD in English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of interest:<\/strong> Nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature, literature and science, environmental humanities, affect theory<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> thomas.howard@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a>
\nPhone:<\/strong> +90 (312) 290 3431
\nOffice:<\/strong> G 128-F<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Daniel Johnson<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor\"\"<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PhD in History from Binghamton University, State University of New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Early America\/Atlantic world, social and cultural history, social movements, popular politics, print culture<\/p>\n

Email<\/strong>: daniel.johnson@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone<\/strong>: +90 (312) 290 1933
\nOffice<\/strong>: G-119<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kara McCormack \"\"<\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/h2>\n

PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Cultural studies, popular culture, social and cultural history, film and society, mythic American West, science fiction.<\/p>\n

Email<\/strong>: kara.mccormack@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone<\/strong>: +90 (312) 290 1727
\nOffice<\/strong>: G-115B<\/p>\n

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Patrick McDonald<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/strong><\/h2>\n

PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Popular Fiction, Literature and the Law, Political Theory and Political Theology, History of Capitalism<\/p>\n

Email:<\/strong> patrick.mcdonald@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone:<\/strong> +90\u00a0(312) 290 31 13
\nOffice:\u00a0<\/strong>G-113A<\/p>\n

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Kyra Sutton\"\"<\/a>
\nAssistant Professor<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PhD in Rhetoric and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Twentieth-century and contemporary Anglo-American literature, critical theory, critical religion and secularism studies, political theology, literary theory<\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0<\/strong>kyra.sutton@bilkent.edu.tr
\nPhone:\u00a0<\/strong>+90 (312) 290 1723
\nOffice:\u00a0<\/strong>G-115A<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Helm Assistant Professor PhD in English from the University of Iowa Areas of Interest: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, mass media and communications, world literature and transnationalism, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":86,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3772\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}