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    A Posthumanist Ecocritical Reading of Maggie Gee’s The Ice People and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods: Recontextualising the Ecological Centre
    (Kapadokya Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim, Öğretim ve Araştırma Enstitüsü, 2023) Mutlu, Alperen
    This study examines Jeanette Winterson’s and Maggie Gee’s attitudes towards the culture/nature dichotomy from a posthumanist ecocritical standpoint, discussing their approaches regarding the association of humans with culture and nature. The thesis focuses on the connectedness between nature and culture as opposed to their separation. It also sets the conversation into a more extensive ecotheoretical setting, which does not just study our ethical and environmental perspectives; instead, it suggests answers for how we reconstruct our anthropocentric and ecological views on nature, humans, and cyborgs. Drawing on posthumanism and contemporary ecocriticism, thus, this study contends that in these novels, The Ice People and The Stone Gods, humans are not portrayed as superior to nature but as part of cultures, nature, and technologies. These two works foreground the exploitative systems that degrade the environment and socially oppressed people who are the explication to ecologically devalued spaces and rebuild the thought of the centre by representing it as variable and replaceable with its margins.
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    Eleanor Roosevelt as a Queer Heroine in Susan Wittig Albert’s Loving Eleanor
    (Hyperion University, 2025) Bay, Hatice; Mutlu, Alperen
    Abstract: How might we reimagine Eleanor Roosevelt not only as a political icon but as a figure whose entire life— private and public—queered traditional boundaries of being, sexuality, and power? Susan Wittig Albert presents this possibility in Loving Eleanor (2016), which examines the romantic connection between Lorena Hickok (Hick) and Eleanor Roosevelt (hereafter ER or Eleanor). The novel follows the queer bond and enduring friendship between them through a period from 1928 to 1962, while also depicting Eleanor’s non-traditional relationships with multiple men. Albert’s narrative also demonstrates how ER’s energetic personality interacts with the sociopolitical environment of her time to show her adaptable approach to different social classes, racial and ethnic groups. Through queer theory and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concepts of rhizomatic proliferations, becoming-woman, becomingminoritarian, and other becomings, this essay argues that the fictional Eleanor defies established gender, class, and sexual norms, embracing the ever-evolving and boundless nature of desire, sexuality, and transformation. The analysis reveals how Albert's depiction of ER differs from conventional stories about her to present an unconventional and complex portrait of her character. Keywords: Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert, Eleanor Roosevelt, queer studies, Deleuze and Guattari