Dr. A. Candan Kirişci joined the Turkish program as an adjunct lecturer in 2019, teaching at the intermediate and post-advanced levels. Since January 2025, when she assumed a full-time role as assistant teaching faculty, she has been teaching at all levels, developing new courses and organizing speakers’ events for the Turkish Program. Dr. Kirişci’s previous work experience includes teaching Turkish at the Foreign Service Institute of the U. S. Department of State. Prior to that, she taught English to immigrants through adult education programs at Montgomery College and the Literacy Council of Montgomery County in Maryland.
Kirişci earned a PhD degree from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul with a comparative study on the literary representations of the Gallipoli battles in Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. Articles based on her research have been published in these three countries. She has been living in the Washington, D.C. area since 2013.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Teaching Professor, College - Turkish Studies