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Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)

BA, University of California, Santa Cruz (2008)

Areas of Interest

cultural studies; world literature; popular music; contemporary film and television; social movements; global modernism; Mediterranean Studies; feminist theory; social media and counterculture

Memberships

Ottoman and Turkish Language Association; American Comparative Literature Association; Middle Eastern Studies Association

Publications Prior to SU
Journal Articles

2025 - “When ‘Ottoman’ Was an Insult: Turkish Modernist Poets and their Critics,” Modernism/modernity, Vol. 9, Cycle 4.

Qualitative assessment: An analysis of the discursive use of the Ottoman imperial legacy in literary criticism

2021 - “Poetry, Rock 'n' Roll, and Cinema in Turkey's 1960s,” Turkish Historical Review Vol. 12, No. 2-3.

2021 - “Combined and Uneven Modernism: Turkey’s İkinci Yeni Poets,” Dibur Literary Journal No. 10.

2020 - “Hellenism without Greeks: The Use and Abuse of Classical Antiquity in the Literature of Nev-Yunânîlik and Mavi Anadolu,” Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vol. 5, No. 1 (spring 2018).



Book Chapters

In press - “Brand New: Turkish Poetry and Aesthetic Autonomy on the Modernist Periphery.” Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism, edited by Levi Thompson, Cambridge University Press.

Analysis of development of the institution of art and the notion of aesthetic autonomy in non-western contexts

2025 - “‘We, Too, Are Oriental’: Nâzım Hikmet’s Futurist and Anti-Colonial Modernity.” Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature, edited by Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal, Taylor & Francis.

2021 - “The Internationalist Left and World Literature: The Case of Nâzım Hikmet in Greece.” Turkish Literature as World Literature, edited by Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, Bloomsbury.

2020 - “Radical Moderns/Poetry International: Nâzım Hikmet, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Yannis Ritsos, Muriel Rukeyser.” Back to the ‘30s? Crisis, Repetition and Transition in the 20th and 21st Centuries, edited by Susan Falls et al. Palgrave MacMillan.

2020 - “Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Şahsiyet and Happy Valley.” Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television, edited by Feride Çiçekoğlu et al. Palgrave MacMillan.

2020 - “A Mediterranean 60s: Cultural Politics in Turkey, Greece, and Beyond.” Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, edited by Martin Klimke et al. Taylor & Francis.



Book Reviews

2025 - “Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser. Dolcerocca Özen Nergis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).” International Journal of Middle East Studies.

2021 - “Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey (2018) by Erik Mortenson.” Contemporary Literature Studies, vol. 58, no. 1.

2021 - “Jakobenlerden Devrimcilere: Türkiye'de Ögrenci Hareketlerinin Dinamikleri (1960 - 1971) (2019) by Emin Alper.” Turkish Historical Review Vol. 12, No. 2-3 (winter 2021).

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