Gunes studied English literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey followed by “Diploma in English literature” at Dundee University and PhD in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University, the UK. Besides teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels at various public and private universities, he has written many academic and newspaper articles and three books in the fields of literature, culture, identity, modernism and postmodernism. Now he teaches English literature at the Social Sciences University of Ankara and is also vice rector of the same university. He can be contacted at [email protected]