Deniz Ilkbasaran

dilkbasaran@ucsd.edu

Ph.D. Candidate, Communication, University of California, San Diego

MA, Educational Technology, Concordia University, Montréal, 2007

Thesis: Sign Up! Development of an ASL Board Game for Hearing Families with Deaf Children

BA, Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, 2002

• Literacies and mobilities of Deaf youth

• Changing geographies of Deafness and Sign Language

• Deaf heritage and historical accounts of deaf education in Turkey

February, 2012, Presentation: “Late Modernity Mobilities and the Future of Deaf Geographies”, Association of American Geographers, Deaf Geographies Panel Session, New York

October 2011, Presentation: “Media Practices and Social Networks of Deaf Youth in Turkey”, Sign 5: International Conference of Sign Language Users, Gazi University, Ankara

Meir, I., Lifshitz, A., Ilkbasaran, D. and C. Padden (2010) The interaction of animacy and word order in human languages: A study of strategies in a novel communication task. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference in Evolution of Language. Singapore: World Scientific.

February 2008, Poster: “Designing Game Environments for Sign Language Learning”, First Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh

İlkbaşaran, D. (2004). Sign Up! Development of an ASL Board Game for Hearing Families with Deaf Children (Master’s Thesis) Available from the Thesis Database, Concordia University (LE 3 C66E38M 2007 I45) (Advisor: Dr. Johannes Strobel)

Özyürek, A. & İlkbaşaran, D. (2004). The use of space in transfer verbs in Turkish Sign Language: Implications for typological variation. Paper presented at the ‘Crosslinguistic perspectives in sign language research workshop’, German Linguistic Society Conference, Mainz.

Introduction to Communication and Culture, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Lisa Cartwright (Spring 2011)

Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Patrick Anderson (Winter 2010)

Sign Language and its Culture, Department of Linguistics, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Prof. Rachel Mayberry (Fall 2009)

2007 - 2011, Research Assistant of Dr. Carol Padden

2001 - 2004, Research Assistant of Dr. Asli Özyürek at Koç University, Department of Psychology, working on Turkish Sign Language (TID)

http://turkisaretdili.ku.edu.tr