Prof. Dr. Ayşe Naz Bulamur teaches in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has articles on the works of British, American, and Turkish writers, such as Margaret Fuller, Hannah W. Foster, Elisabeth Gaskell, Edith Wharton, A. S. Byatt, Julia Kristeva, Erendiz Atasü, Elif Şafak, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Martin Amis. She is the author of Victorian Murderesses: The Politics of Female Violence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). Her research focuses on postcolonial theory, urban theory, feminist criticism, and nineteenth-century and contemporary fiction.