S. Ruken Öztürk works at Ankara University, The Faculty of Communication
as professor (in Radio, TV & Cinema Department) and a member of Women
Studies Center of Ankara University in Turkey. She is part time staff at METU,
and she was the dean of The Faculty of Communication between 2012-15. She wrote six books (e.g. Sinemada
Kadın Olmak/Being a Woman in the Cinema, 2000; Sinemanın Dişil Yüzü:
Türkiye’de Kadın Yönetmenler/Female Side of the Cinema: Women Filmmakers in
Turkey, 2004) and
several articles in Turkish. Her article on Nuri
Bilge Ceylan’s Uzak/Distant is in The
Cinema of North Africa and the Middle
East (ed. G. D. Colin, 2007), and the
other article “Hard to Bear: Women’s Burdens in
the Cinema of Yesim Ustaoğlu” is in
Visions of Struggle in Women's
Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (ed. F. Laviosa, 2010).