Education

2026| Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics - Northern Arizona University (US)
Disseration chair: Dr. Jesse Egbert
Dissertation title (tentative): Evaluating the Register Alignment, Functional Appropriateness, and Humanlikeness of AI-Generated Texts: A Corpus Analysis of ChatGPT

2021 | M.A in English Language Teaching - Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Summa cum laude
Thesis chair: Dr.  Çiler Hatipoğlu
Thesis title: An Analysis of the Speech Act of Complaint in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) : A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of a Corpus from Tripadvisor

2016 | B.A. in English Language Teaching - Boğaziçi University (Turkey)
Cum laude

2015 | Exchange student - University of Padova (Italy)