Burcu Gülüm Tekin is a lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology of the University of Zaragoza. She graduated in American Culture and Literature at Istanbul University in June 2007. In October 2010, she gained her M.A. degree with her thesis on postmodern narrative techniques in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle at the same university. Her second M.A. on The Female Representations of James Joyce’s “Clay” and “The Dead” was completed in September 2011 at the University of Granada. As a part of her doctoral research, she has been a visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies Centre of the University College Dublin during May-August 2013. She completed her doctoral dissertation entitled “Heroines of the Working Class: The Representation of Motherhood in Roddy Doyle’s Work” in July 2017.

She is a member of EFACIS (The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) and AEDEI (Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses). During the years 2015-2017, she formed part of the organization committee of Jornadas Estudios Irlandeses and 16^th AEDEI Conference in Irish studies at the University of Granada, and she is also the co-founder of EFACIS Irish Studies Centre at the same university.

Her main research interests are contemporary Irish literature and versatile gender representations in the Irish context. She has presented papers in various international conferences on the aforementioned topics. Her work has appeared in various academic journals, including Estudios Irlandeses, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, and Studi Irlandesi as well as in the edited volumes Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), and Ireland and Dysfunction, Critical Explorations in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). Her most recent study appeared in February 2021 in the special issue entitled “Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in a Transmodern Era” of The European Legacy.