Academic Staff

She was graduated from Hacettepe University, department of Eng.Translation and Interpreting. She worked as consecutive interpreter in the Ministry of National Defence between 1996-1999. Then, between 1999-2002, she worked as translator/interpreter at TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries,Inc.).She received her MA and Ph.D from the same university, Eng.linguistics. She has been working as a lecturer at Department of Translation and Interpreting at IEU since 2007.Her research interests include pragmatics, translation studies, lexicology and interpreting. She was entitled to Associate Professorship by the Interuniversity Council in 2017 and Professorship by IUE in 2023.

Ilgın Aktener studied translation and interpretation, and public relations and advertising at Izmir University of Economics. She received her MA degrees in the fields of American Culture and Literature and American Studies from Ege University and Heidelberg University (Germany). She undertook her PhD studies in translation at the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University. She previously worked at Izmir University of Economics as a research assistant, Heriot-Watt University as a research/teaching assistant, and Yaşar University as a lecturer. She las international translation and interpreting experience. Her research areas of interest are literary translation, sociology of translation, translation of children’s literature and corpus-based translation studies.

Dr Gülden Taner received her BA and MA degrees in Translation and Interpreting at Hacettepe University. She completed her PhD in 2017 in English Language Teaching at Middle East Technical University, where she also worked as a research assistant for 7 years. In 2019&2020, she conducted her postdoctoral research in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick (UK), fully funded by TUBITAK (BIDEB2219). She offered BA-level language proficiency, applied linguistics and specialised translation and interpreting courses at Başkent University, Çankaya University and İzmir University of Economics.

In 2009, Nazlıgül Bozok started studying in the Department of Translation and Interpretation at Izmir University of Economics. During her study, she started her second major in International Relations and the European Union. Having graduated as a high honor student from both departments, she started working with various companies and organizations such as the U.S. Commercial Service, the Netherlands Board of Trade and Japan Tobacco International as a consecutive/simultaneous interpreter. In 2015, she was offered a quite demanding position at NATO Allied Land Command as a Protocol Assistant. Having completed her master's thesis on simultaneous interpreting at Dokuz Eylül University, Nazlıgül Bozok completed her Ph.D. degree in Translation Studies at Istanbul University in 2025. Bozok also worked on a TUBITAK 1001 Project (220K032) in 2022.From 2017 to 2025, Nazlıgül Bozok served as a Research Assistant in the Department of Translation and Interpretation at Izmir University of Economics. In 2025, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the same department.

She graduated from Ege University, Department of English Language and Literature in 1988. She worked as an English teacher between 1988 and 1994. She received her master’s degree in Administrative Management from Bowie State University in 1994. She taught English, Business, and Human Resource Management at Minot State University between 1995 and 1998. She started working at IUE, School of Foreign Languages in 2002. Between 2005 and 2008, she worked as coordinator for Undergraduate English Programs. She has been a lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Department since 2008. She’s currently writing her dissertation about translation and quality at Boğaziçi University. She has also been a member of Cunda Workshop of Translators of Turkish Literature (CWTTL) since 2007 and translates Turkish fiction into English.

Neslihan Kansu Yetkiner received her BA in Translation and Interpretation from Hacettepe University (summa cum laude). After completing her master's degree in the same department, she received her doctorate degree in linguistics with the Ubbo Emmius Scholarship in the Department of Language and Communication at Groningen University (Netherlands). She worked as an English and Turkish for Foreigners lecturer at Tömer, a part-time lecturer at London University, SOAS, and a research assistant at Hacettepe University, Department of Translation and Interpretation, respectively. Her primary research interests lie in pragmatics and translation, corpus-based translation studies, translated children's literature and critical discourse analysis. In addition to writing many articles published in national and international journals, Kansu-Yetkiner worked on three TUBITAK 1001 projects (111K344, 115K145 and 220K032) as principal investigator. She is, at the same time, a member of TÜBİTAK/SOBAG Advisory Board.