Sema Üstün Külünk

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department
e-mail: 

sema.ustunkulunk@bogazici.edu.tr

Interest Areas: 

ideological translation, retranslation, fictional translation, Qur’an translations, translation agency, migration and translation, refugee translations, and media studies

Selected Publications: 

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2023). Translating Islam(ism) for a Muslim society: a novel ‘Intra Ummah translation paradigm’ for Islamist translations in Turkey, Perspectives, DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2023.2281969

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2023). A Kurdish Translator’s Badge in Türkiye – An Identity Card or a False ID: Çevirmen as a Translatorial Autobiography. In S. Sancaktaroğlu Bozkurt & T.E. Taşdan Doğan (Eds.), Translation Studies: Translating in the 21st Century Multiple Identities (pp. 111-125). Berlin: Peter Lang.

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2023). The Novel Mütercim as a Site of Transfiction: A Case of Translation in Life and the Translation of Life in the Transformational Republican Era in Turkey. Translation & Interpreting, 15 (1), 236-252.

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2023). When Particular Contexts Create Their Concepts: The Evolution of Meal as a Canonical Translational Term for Qur'an Translations in Turkiye. İstanbul Üniversitesi Çeviribilim Dergisi - Istanbul University Journal of Translation Studies, 18, 149-165.

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2022). The Uncharted Experience of Female Qur’an Translators in Turkey. Parallèles, 34 (1), 141-152. DOI:10.17462/para.2022.01.12

Üstün Külünk, Sema. (2020). The Discourse on the Praxis and Pragmatics of the Qur’an Retranslations in Turkish. TranscUlturAl, 12 (1), 75-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21992/tc29463


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