Education

MLIS, University of North Carolina Greensboro (2008)

M.A. English, Western Carolina University (2002)

B. A. Literature, University of North Carolina Asheville (1994)

M. A. Thesis:   Keloglan Tales: Translated from Ibrahim Zeki Burdurlu’s Keloglan Masallari

This thesis offers both a translation of six Keloglan tales from Burdurlu’s 1967 publication, a discussion of D.L. Ashliman’s and Margaret Read MacDonald’s works on “Subject, Motif, and Indexing” based on the Aarne and Stith model. Mr. Yazan cross-references the Turkish tales within the Ashliman and MacDonald’s systems of type and motif indexing. The thesis also provides a comprehensive application of Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale in a morphological comparison and analysis of “Keloglan and the Ooh-Genie” and “Jack and the North West Wind.” Also included are two Turkish toddler hand-rhyme games.

B. A. Thesis:  “Fuzűlî: An Introduction”

This thesis offers a translation of selected poems from Fuzűlî’s (16th century Turkish poet) ghazals as well as background information on the poet and tassavuuf poetry. Also offers translations of select ghazals from Fuzűlî’s “Leyla ile Mecnun.”