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Books

• Çevreci Eleştiriye Giriş: Doğa, Kültür, Edebiyat (Introduction to Environmental Criticism: Nature, Culture, Literature). Ankara: Ürün Yayınları, 2014, 2017. Link to book review, Link to publisher's website.


• Edebiyat ve Toprak Etiği: Amerikan Doğa Yazınında Leopold'cu Düşünce (Literature and the Land Ethic: Leopoldian Thought in American Nature Writing). Ankara: Ürün Yayınları, 2005, 2017. Link to book review, Link to publisher's website.

Edited Books

• Nature vs. Culture. Eds. Özlem Gümüşçubuk, Ufuk Özdağ, Cian Duffy. İzmir: Ege Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2022.


• Anadolu Turnaları: Biyoloji, Kültür, Koruma / Anatolian Cranes: Biology, Culture, Conservation. Eds. Ufuk Özdağ ve Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan. Ankara; Ürün Yayınları, 2019. Link to publisher's website., Link to full pdf


• Environmental Crisis and Human Costs. Eds. Ufuk Özdağ & François Gavillon. Colección Benjamin Franklin. Alcalá de Henares, Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, 2015.


• The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons. Eds. Serpil Oppermann, Ufuk Özdağ, Nevin Ozkan, & Scott Slovic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Book Translations

• Bir Kum Yöresi Almanağı (A Sand County Almanac). Aldo Leopold. Introduction, Curt Meine. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2013. Link to publisher's website.


• Çölde Tek Başına: Yabanıl Doğada Bir Mevsim (Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness). Edward Abbey. Introduction, Ufuk Özdağ. Ankara: BilgeSu Yayıncılık, 2018. (with Demet Sökezoğlu Çakır)

Other Translations

• The Ankara Crocus ("Ankara Çiğdemi"). Hikmet Birand. Anadolu Manzaraları. Ankara: TÜBİTAK Popüler Bilim Kitapları, 2008. 37-52. Translation by: Ufuk Özdağ and Çiğdem Cangır. Publication Date: 2 April 2014.


• Essentials of Conservation Biology [Koruma Biyolojisi]. Richard B. Primack. (Chapters 21 & 22, translated by Ufuk Özdağ). Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2012.


• Doğayı Koruma Bildirgesi (A Conservationist Manifesto). Scott Russell Sanders. Bilim ve Aklın Aydınlığında Eğitim. 138-139 (August/September 2011): 37-45 (Translation editor: Ufuk Özdağ)


• Hisht Hisht!.... Sait Faik Abasıyanık (oyku). Orion Magazine September/October 2009. (Translator: Ufuk Ozdağ)

Edited and Guest-edited Journal Issues

• Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) (Fall 2009) Ecocriticism Issue. Guest edited by Ufuk Ozdağ and Scott Slovic.


• Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters (EFD). Issues edited by Ufuk Özdağ: 2006 (No 2), 2007 (No 1 & 2), 2008 (No 1 & 2), 2009 (No 1).

Selected Articles

• “Restoration Ecocriticism: From Habitat Destruction to Hands-On Action.” Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought. Cenk Tan and İsmail Serdar Altaç, eds. Lexington Books, 2024. pp.125-136.
  
  
• “Toprak Etiği ile Derelerin Restorasyonu: Freeman’ın Tarboo Deresi Örneği” 4. Uluslararası Tarım ve Gıda Etiği Kongresi, Book of Proceedings. Mustafa Evren ve R. Petek Ataman, eds. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2023. pp. 158-165.
  
  
• “Antroposen Çağında Henry David Thoreau’nun Lüks Kavramına Bakışı.” Değer: Evrensel Lüks ve Ötesi. Meltem Etcheberry, ed. Olimpos, 2023. pp. 202-208.
  
  
• "Yaşar Kemal'de Su Etiği (Water Ethics in Yaşar Kemal)." Yaşar Kemal ile Binbir Çiçekli Bahçede: Yaşar Kemal'in Anlatı Dünyasında Doğa, Çevre, Ekolojik Gerçeklik. Ed. Feridun Andaç. İzmir, İBB, 2023. 263-276.
  
  
• "The call of nature writing: A framework of attributes and intentions for environmental awareness." Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 19.1 (2023), e2304. https://doi.org/10.29333/ijese/13026 (with Jennie Farber Lane)
  
  
• “Buket Uzuner’s Fire and Sacred Trees: An Interview and Impressions”.Lagoonscapes. The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2.2 (2022), 253-268. DOI 10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2022/04/000 (with Pınar Batur)
  
  
• "Feeling Like the Colorado River: A Groundwork for Restoration Ecocriticism" (Colorado Nehri Gibi Hissetmek: Restorasyon Çevreci Eleştirisi'nin Temelleri). Folklor/Edebiyat vol. 28, no. 109, 2022, pp 1-18. DOI: 10.22559/folklor.2073
  
  
• "Turkish Nature Writer Hikmet Birand's Burroughsian 'Inward Eyes': Morning on the Artemisia Steppe." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 14 April 2020 (advance article). https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa016 (with Pınar Batur)
  
  
• "Coon Vadisi Projesi: Bir Tarımsal Başarı Hikayesi (The Coon Valley Project: An Agricultural Success Story)." Proceedings Book of 2nd International Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics. Eds. Cemal Taluğ, et al. Ankara, 2020. 361-371.
  
  
• "The Traces of Gaia in the Gavilan: Reconsiderations for a Planetary Land Ethic in the Encounter of an Ecocritic and an Environmental Scientist." MOLESTO: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 3.1 (2020): 178-202. DOI: 10.33406/molesto.670249 (with Cemal Saydam)
  
  
• "'Evrim Orkestrasının Trompeti' Turnalar: Bir Restorasyon Çevreci Eleştiri Uygulaması" (Cranes Are the 'Trompets in the Orchestra of Evolution': A Restoration Ecocriticism Approach). Anadolu Turnaları: Biyoloji, Kültür, Koruma / Anatolian Cranes: Biology, Culture, Conservation. Ed. Ufuk Özdağ ve Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan. Ankara: Ürün Yayınları, 2019. 137-149.
  
  
• "Türk Doğa Yazınında Dev Bir Eser: Hikmet Birand'ın Anadolu Manzaraları."Alıç Ağacının Gölgesinde Anadolu Bozkırları. Ed. Tuna Ekim ve Mutlu Kart Gür. Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2019. 17-36.
  
  
• "Yaşar Kemal'de Deniz Etiği." Yaşar Kemal: İnsanı Toplumu Dünyayı Kucaklamak. Ed. S. Seza Yılancıoğlu.İstanbul: Literatür Yayıncılık, 2019.
  
  
• "Türkiye’de Toprak Etiğine Doğru: Ekolojik Bilinç, Doğa Koruma, Eğitim." Rüzgar Değil Yaprağı Kımıldatan: Türkiye’de Çevrenin Kültürel Boyutlarına Yeni Bakışlar. Ed. Gönül Pultar ve Emine O. İncirlioğlu. Ankara: Ürün Yayınları, 2019.
  
  
• "Novelist as Eco-shaman: Buket Uzuner's Water [Su] as Requesting Spirits to Help the Earth in Crisis." The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Eds. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran.New York: Routledge, 2019. 326-338. (with Pınar Batur) Link to publisher's website.
  
  
• "Rachel Carson ve Tarihin Seyrini Değiştiren Eserinin Sıf;rları."Tarihi Değiştiren Toplumu Dönüştüren Kadınlar. Ed. A. Karaduman, G. G. Alpaslan, P. Ş. Tekinalp ve M. Ekti. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Yayını, 2016. 187-202.
  
  
• "'Biz Ankara'nın Eski Yerlisiyiz': Hikmet Birand'ın Anısına Bir Toprak Etiği Okuması."Kültürel Mirasın İzinde: Ankara. Ed. Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan and Pelin Şahin Tekinalp. Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2016. 281-300.
  
  
• "A Study of the Writing Strategies of Renowned Conservationists: Implications for Place-Based Education in Turkey."Hacettepe Universitesi Egitim Fakultesi Dergisi [Hacettepe University Journal of Education], 29.4 (Ekim 2014): 189-204. (with Jennie Farber Lane)
  
  
• "The Greening of Turkology Studies: New Directions in Ecocriticism."Beyond the New Paradigm in the Middle East. Conference Proceedings 2013. Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea.
  
  
• "For the Health of the Sea: In Search of an Expansive 'Land Ethic' in Turkish Maritime Literature." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20.1(Winter 2013). Advance Access publication February 20, 2013. doi: 10.1093/isle/ist003.
  
  
• "Sessiz Bahar'dan Sonra Ses Getiren Elli Yil: Kadin, Cevre, Saglik"["Fifty Vocal Years After Silent Spring: Women, Environment, and Health"]. Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters 28.2 (2011): 179-199. 5
  
  
• "Cevremizi Korumaya Bir Ornek: Scott Russell Sanders'in 'Dogayi Koruma Bildirgesi'" ["A Touchstone for Environmental Protection: Scott Russell Sanders's 'A Conservationist Manifesto'"]. Bilim ve Aklin Aydinliginda Egitim138-139 (Agustos/Eylul 2011): 37-45
  
  
• "Aldo Leopold ve Toprak Etigi: Toprak Toplulugunun Sade Bir Uyesi ve Vatandasi Olmak." Bilim ve Aklin Aydinliginda Egitim 134 (Nisan 2011):25-33.
  
  
• "Turkiyat Arastirmalarinda Yeni Bir Alan: Cevreci Elestiri" (A New Field in Turkology Studies: Ecocriticism). 3. Uluslararasi Turkiyat Arastirmalari Sempozyumu Bildirileri. Ankara: Hacettepe Universitesi Turkiyat Arastirma Enstitusu Yayinlari, 2011 (with Gonca Gokalp Alpaslan).
  
  
• "Keeping Alive the Memory of the Amik: Environmental Aesthetics and Land Restoration." The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons. Eds. S. Oppermann, U. Ozdag, N. Ozkan, & S. Slovic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
  
  
• "A Roundtable Discussion on Ecocriticism." The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons.Eds. S. Oppermann, U. Özdağ, N. Özkan, & S. Slovic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. (with S. Oppermann, N. Özkan, & S. Slovic.)
  
  
• "An Essay on Ecocriticism in 'the Century of Restoring the Earth,'"Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) 30 (Fall 2009): 125-142.
  
  
• "Ecocriticism and a Conservationist Manifesto."Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) 30 (Fall 2009):1-8 (with Scott Slovic).
  
  
• "Edebiyatin Ekoloji Temelli Doga Egitiminde Onemi." Ekolojik Okur Yazarlik: Surdurulebilir Bir Dunya icin Amanoslar'da Doga Egitimi. Ed. Y. Ergun, S. Yalcin-Ozdilek, H. Pamir. Hatay: Mustafa Kemal Universitesi Yayinlari, 2008.

• "Reading Yasar Kemal's The Sea-Crossed Fisherman in the Year of the Dolphin." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.1 (2008): 45-74.


• "Amerika'da Modern Sanatin Dogusuna Bir Bakis." (A Study on the Birth of Modern Art in America). Frankofoni 18 (2006): 213-227.


• "The Turning of the Tide: The Evolution of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Considerations Regarding Non-human Entities in American Literature." Hacettepe Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi 22.2 (2005): 135-149.


• "On the Intrinsic Value of the Land: Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place." Hacettepe Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi 22.1 (2005): 169-182.


• "Ecocriticism Through Ecotheology: 'A White Heron' Reconsidered." 'Nature's Nation' Revisited: American Concepts of Nature From Wonder to Ecological Crisis. Ed. Hans Bak and Walter W. Holbling. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003. 294-305.


• "The Land Ethic for 'A More-Than-Human World.'" Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) 16 (2002): 41-50.


• "Long Live Planet Earth: Ritual and Reconstruction." The Journal of American Culture and Literature: Rites and Rituals (2000-01): 1-9.


• "Sacred Earth At Last: Ecocritical Considerations At the End of the Millennium." The Journal of American Culture and Literature: The Millennium Special Issue (1999): 39-47.


• ""Ecofeminism: Is It Going to End Wars?"" The Journal of American Culture and Literature: War in American Culture Issue (1998): 103-112..


• "H.D.'s 'Eurydice': Going Forward Into the Past." The Journal of American Culture and Literature: 15th Anniversary Special Issue (1997): 133-141.


• "Dickinson: The Romantic Rebel of Feminine Awareness." The Journal of American Culture and Literature: Romanticism, The Persistant Impulse (1995-96):105-111.


• "Dickey's Deliverance Subverted: Whose Deliverance?" The Journal of American Culture and Literature: Uprising, Protests and the Arts (1994): 66-74.


• "Heidegger and Being There: Chance's Language Has Nothing To Do With Politics." The Journal of American Culture and Literature: Poetry and Politics (1993): 46-55.