History

The faculty, founded in 1976 as Faculty of Humanities, was then entitled Faculty of Letters in 1982. The Faculty of Letters is the seventh faculty of Ege University.

Founded in the building which is Computer Research and Application Center today, the faculty was then transferred to buildings of İzmir Vocational School of Teacher Training (currently İzmir Science High School), then to building of Department of Foreign Languages, was then finally transferred to building, which was originally built for use of Faculty of Medicine, currently occupied by Faculty of Letters in 1986.

Followings Professors served as dean to our faculty as of the foundation date:

Prof. Şefik UYSAL

( 07.06.1976 - 23.02.1979 )

Prof. Ahmet Necdet SÖZER

( 05.03.1979 - 06.02.1980 )

Prof. Süleyman Çetin ÖZOĞLU

( 08.02.1980 - 01.09.1981 )

Prof. Gönül ÖNEY 

( 01.09.1982 - 14.10.1992 )

Prof. Reşit KÜÇÜKBOYACI 

( 15.10.1992 - 22.07.1994 )

Prof. Nuri BİLGİN 

( 31.08.1994 - 25.08.2000 )

Prof. Altan ÇİLİNGİROĞLU 

( 22.09.2000 - 25.09.2003 )

Prof. Kasım EĞİT 

( 03.11.2003 - 03.11.2009 )

Prof. Altan ÇİLİNGİROĞLU

( 18.11.2009 - 31.05.2012 )

Prof. Ersin DOĞER

( 15.11.2012 - 20.07.2016 )

Prof. Eşref ABAY

( 31.10.2016 - 03.11.2018)

Prof. Yusuf AYÖNÜ

(03.11.2018 )