Book
Enchi, Fumiko (original author) and Kaynar, Asli Idil (translator) (2025). Kadın Maskeleri (translation of Onnamen by Fumiko Enchi). Istanbul, Turkey: Ithaki.
Book Chapter
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2021). Uno Chiyo: Gerçek Modern Kızın Edebî Serüveni. Türkiye’de Japon Çalışmaları IV. (pp. 337-352) edited by Selçuk Esenbel and Oğuz Baykara. Istanbul, Turkey: Boğaziçi Yayınları.
Journal Articles
Kaynar, Asli (2026). Bold breaks: Japanese women and literary narratives of divorce. Asian Studies Review. doi: 10.1080/10357823.2026.2644510
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2025). Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s modern girls: reversing the role of Moga in Japanese literature. Global Perspectives on Japan (3), 43-63. doi: 10.62231/gp3.160001a3
Kaynar, Aslı İdil (2024). From The Perspective of Women Writers: Representations of Modern Girls in 1920s and 1930s Turkey And Japan. KARE (18), 8-29. doi: 10.38060/kare.1533331
Conference Papers
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2026). Leda as the ‘beast’: rewriting desire and art in Nomizo Naoko's Jojū shinri. Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 4-5 July 2026.
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2025). Modern girls don’t just want to have fun: desire in Turkish and Japanese women’s writing. International Conference on Languages, Literature and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan, 21-23 Novermber 2025.
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2024). Reframing modern girls in Japan and Turkey: desire and self-representation in women authors’ literary works. Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, Perth, WA, Australia, 1-4 July 2024.
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2024). Selecting Japanese women authors for translation: challenges and insights in the Turkish Publishing landscape. East Asian Translation Studies Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26-28 June 2024.
Kaynar, Asli Idil (2023). Portrayals of modern girls’ desires in Uno Chiyo’s and Suat Derviş’s literary works. Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1-3 September 2023.
Kaynar, Aslı İdil (2023). Portrayals of modern girls’ desires in Uno Chiyo’s and Suat Derviş’s literary works. ACAS2023, Tokyo, Japan, 19 – 22 May, 2023. The International Academic Forum(IAFOR). doi: 10.22492/issn.2187-4735.2023.2
Thesis
Kaynar, Asli (2026). Modern Girls’ desires: representations of the Turkish asrî kız and the Japanese modan gāru in women authors’ works . PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b8413c7