Having received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) in 1995, Don Randall subsequently held two distinguished postdoctoral fellowships, at The University of Calgary (1996-97), and at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada (1997-99). He began his Bilkent career in the fall of 1999. In 2004, he was a Distinguished Visitor in the Department of English, Communication and Film Studies at The University of Western Australia. His main research areas are postcolonial literature and British imperial literature, and he has published numerous articles in journals of international stature. He is the author of two books, the first on the fiction of Rudyard Kipling and the second on the poetry and fiction of the contemporary Australian author David Malouf.