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Dilek Isler Hayirli

Dilek İşler-Hayırlı is currently working as an English Language Instructor at the Department of Basic English, at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. She completed her master’s degree at the Department of Turkish Folkloristics at Hacettepe University with a thesis called Cultural and Educational Aspect of Toy and Play Museums in Turkey in Terms of Intangible Cultural Heritage Museology which was later turned into a book in Turkish. She is the editorial assistant of an international journal named Culture Academy (https://www.academyculture.com/) which is a peer-reviewed journal of cultural science and management research. Her research areas are cultural heritage, toy and play museums, autoethnography, village ethnography, monographies and memory.

She translated many social-cultural anthropology books from English to Turkish language among which are Franz Boas’ The Mind of Primitive Man, Robert Lavenda and Emily Schultz’s Core Concepts of Cultural Anthropology and a couple of others in various subjects like Sarah Fels Usher’s What is This Thing Called Love? which are right now in publication process. She is conducting her PhD studies at the Department of Folkloristics at Ankara University. With her husband cultural anthropologist Dr. Onur Hayırlı, she is conducting a village monography project with Aliağa Municipality in İzmir as a result of which a series of books documenting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the village will be written and which will turn into an autoethnographic PhD dissertation. She is very happy for being introduced to autoethnographic method of Ellis, Bochner and Adams by her supervisor Prof. Dr. Serpil Aygün Cengiz. She is happily living with her two cats, Alya and Timi, and her husband in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.

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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."

Æ: Musings from the Editors All Autoethnographic Multimedia Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

"I had not been aware that I was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field together with the stories, knowledge, experience, and tangible materials which were crucial to the culture of the village. Unknowingly, the project had turned into an emotional process and a responsibility."