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studied Translation Studies at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and Media Studies at Oslo University in Norway. She holds a PhD degree in Translation Studies and currently teaches courses on translation theory, translation history and translation criticism at Boğaziçi University. She is the author of Kapılar (2005; a book exploring different approaches to translation history, published in Turkish) and The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923–1960 (Rodopi, 2008). Gürçağlar has published articles on Turkish translation history and method in descriptive translation studies. She is also a professional conference interpreter and a translator of poetry, social sciences and environmental subjects.