Erdener, Yildiray
Senior Lecturer

 Erdener

Office: WMB 6.150

Office Hours: (Fall 2008) Tuesday 10:00 - 11:00, Wednesday 1:00 - 3:00

Phone: (512) 475-6503

y.erdener@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Indiana University

Research interests:
Turkish language; folklore and ethnomusicology of Turkey and the Turkic Republics. Turkish minstrel music, folklore and music of the Middle East and Central Asia

Courses taught:
Turkish language and culture, folklore and ethnomusicology

Recent Publications:
Turkish Idiomatic Expressions. Springfield, Virginia: Dunwoody Press, 2004.

Turkish Through Songs. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Turkish Studies Publications, 2002.

The Song Contests of Turkish Minstrels. In Harvard University's Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature Series. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

The Forms of Music (Musik Formlari) with N. Cangal. Ankara: Gures Matbaasi, 1976. (In Turkish)

Learning a Foreign Language: "An Enemy You Can Engage." with two cassette tapes.1997.

Turkish Language Online- is a fully integrated system of computer-assisted instruction for Turkish language. Spring 2002.