Gönül Pultar
| Fahriye Gönül Pultar | |
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| Born |
November 3, 1943 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Residence | Kabataş, Istanbul |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Citizenship | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Robert College |
| Spouse(s) | Mustafa Pultar |
| Children | Giray Pultar, Eren Pultar, Selçuk Pultar |
| Parent(s) | Reşid Mazhar Ayda, Adile Ayda |
| Website | www |
Fahriye Gönül Pultar (née Ayda, born 3 November 1943 in İstanbul) is a Turkish academic, scholar and novelist. Presently, she is the President of the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey and also holds the honorary title of the President of the World League of Tatars.
Following her career diplomat mother, Adile Ayda, she studied in such countries as France, The Netherlands and the former Yugoslavia and received a B.A. from Robert College (now Boğaziçi [Bosphorus] University) in Istanbul and a Ph.D. from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara.
After an early career in journalism, she opted for academia and has taught at METU, Boğaziçi University, Bilkent University as well as Bahçeşehir University. In 1998, she was appointed as a research fellow at the Longfellow Institute of Harvard University. She has been active in various academic associations such as the Modern Language Association, the ASA - American Studies Association [8] and the Society for Multi-ethnic Studies Europe and the Americas [9].
In 1999 Pultar founded the "Group for Cultural Studies in Turkey," which later became the Cultural Studies Association of Turkey of which she has been president since. She is at present a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Popular Culture.
Being the granddaughter of Sadri Maksudi (1878-1957), the leader of the short-lived "Turko-Tatar national-cultural autonomy" established right after the 1917 Revolution in Russia, she has found herself immersed in the life and culture of the autonomous republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan (within the Russian Federation) after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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