Dr. Derya Agis is an independent scholar and a volunteer instructor at the University of the People. She was a research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University. She used to be a visiting scholar there in the summer of 2010. She has a Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Ankara University. She has an M.S. in Social Anthropology from the Middle East Technical University, an M.A. in English Linguistics from Hacettepe University, and a B.A. in Italian Language and Literature. She attended a post-graduate course (Corso di Perfezionamento) on literary translation at the University of Bari. She taught several courses in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Girne American University in the 2007-2008 academic year. She has written many works on environmental humanities, linguistics, and comparative literature.
Research Topic: : An Ecolinguistic Anthropological Approach To Plants In Romance Languages, Turkish, And English In Literature After The Pandemics
Host University: University Of Catania, Italy
Research Advisor:
Dr. Alessandro Lutri, University of Catania, Italy
