Handan İnci

Rector, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Handan İnci is a graduate of Istanbul University, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. She received his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the same university. In 1993, she started to work as a research assistant at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, where she currently gives various lectures on Turkish novels and stories in the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral classes. In 2017, she established Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Research Center. She has been serving as the Rector of the university since January 2019.

Her articles have been published in magazines such as Varlık, Kitap-lık, Hürriyet Gösteri, Milliyet Sanat, Eşik Cini, Türk Edebiyatı, Tarih ve Toplum, Adam Sanat, Türk Dili and Sanat Dünyası.

Her works published in a book: Letters to Cevdet Kudret (Ümit Yayıncılık 1995, with İ. Kudret), Felsefe-i Zenan [Women of Philosophy], Ahmet Midhat (Arma Yayınları 1998), Şiir ve Hakikat [Poetry and Truth] / Beşir Fuad (YKY 1999), Menfa [Detention Colony] / Ahmet Midhat (Arma Yayınları 2002), Bir Gül Bu Karanlıklarda / Articles on Tanpınar (Kitabevi 2002, with A. Uçman), Roman ve Mekân / Türk Romanında Ev [Novel and Space / House in Turkish Novel] (Arma Yayınları 2003), Şimdi Seni Konuşuyorduk [We Talked About You Now] - Selim İleri Symposium Book (Doğan Kitap 2007), Türk Edebiyatının Oyun/Bozanı [the Kill/Joy of Turkish Literature] - A Gift to Oğuz Atay (İletişim Yayınları 2007), Metal Yorgunluğu [Metal Fatigue] / Selections from Tomris Uyar (YKY 2009), Oğuz Atay İçin / Sempozyum Kitabı [For Oğuz Atay / Symposium Book] (İletişim Yayınları 2009, with E.Türker), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (2010, with A. Uçman); Kitapla Direniş [Resistance with the Book] (Tomris Uyar's writings / interviews, 2011); Dünyam [My World] - Tanpınar’s illustrated biography (2012), Orpheus’un Şarkısı / Tanpınar’ın Romanlarında Aşk ve Kadın [Orpheus’ Song / Love and Women in Tanpınar’s Novels], (YKY, 2014); Aşkın Yıpranma Payı [Depreciation of Love] - Tomris Uyar's articles in Elele magazine (YKY, 2016) İlk Edebiyat Anketi [First Literature Survey] : Tahkikat-ı Edebiye (Everest Yayınları, 2018); and Tanpınar, Suat’ın mektubu [Suat’s letter] -prepared by H. İnci from archive manuscripts (Dergah Yayınları, 2018).