Beyza Lorenz - Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Beyza Lorenz

Continuing Lecturer

E-mail: blorenz@humnet.ucla.edu Office: 390 Kaplan Hall

Beyza Lorenz’s research interests focus on Ottoman and Turkish literature and world literature. She particularly examines the interplay of modernity and imperialism with the experience of time and space, gender roles, and the transformation of literary genres in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures. Her other research interests include instructional design, online teaching pedagogy, e-learning, and distance learning. Before coming to UCLA, she taught language and literature courses in universities in the United States and Turkey.

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, Penn State University
MS, Instructional Design and Technology, CSU Fullerton
MA, Koç University, Istanbul
BA, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

Research

Comparative literature
World literature
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman literature
Modern Middle Eastern literature
Language teaching pedagogy
E-learning
Instructional design

Publications

Articles

Review of Uncoupling language and religion: an exploration into the margins of Turkish literature by Laurent Mignon. Turkish Studies. Routledge. September 2021.
“Beyond the Breakout Room: Four Online Tools for Interactive Teaching”
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Newsletter. February 2021, 9-10.
“Novel Anxieties: An Ottoman Counter-discourse on Time and Space.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 40. Issue 2 (August 2020): 387–400.
“Provinciality and the City in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul.” Orhan Pamuk: Critical Essays on a Novelist Between Worlds. Ed. Taner Can et al. Hannover: Ibidem, 2017. 159-83.
“Current Needs of Students and Teachers of Turkish.” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Newsletter. January 2017, 11.
Review of Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. Edited by Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman. Comparative Literature Studies 51.3. (2014) 509-512.

Honors & Awards

Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award (2022)
Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Language Pedagogical Grant (2022)
Language Faculty Professional Development Travel Grant (CNES) (2019)
Mellon Foundation Grant for Research on Turkish Teaching (with CNES) (2017)

Courses

Undergraduate

Elementary Turkish (TURKIC 101 A, B, C)
Advanced Turkish (TURKIC 102 A, B, C)
Turkish Tradition
Middle Eastern Cities (ME STD 177)

Graduate

Readings in Ottoman
Ottoman Diplomatics

Service

American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Executive Board Member
Walter G. Andrews Ottoman Turkish Translation Award Committee Member