Ayse Çelikkol completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Rice University after receiving
undergraduate degrees from Bilkent University, Turkey, in electrical engineering and
Beloit College in literary studies. She works on nineteenth-century British literature
and culture, theories of nationhood and globalization, and interdisciplinary approaches
to literature and economics.
Her book project, tentatively titled Contested Cargoes, examines nineteenth-century
tropes of exchange in British literature and political economy. Drawing on textual
representations of smuggling, exportation, and import consumerism, this project traces
paradoxical formulations of the free trading subject as interdependent and autonomous.
Çelikkol has written articles on Romanticism, Victorian poetry, and nineteenth-century
U.S. literature. Her teaching interests include Victorian fiction and poetry, Romantic
poetry, the history of the novel, and critical theory.
