Publications
Book
Fatih Akın’s Cinema and the New Sound of Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
Invited Guest Editorship Special Issue (Journal) and Special Volume (Book)
Co-Guest editor. Turkish German Studies: Past, Present, and Future. Special Volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien Jahrbuch 2015. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (With Ela Gezen)
Co-Guest Editor. Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts. Special Issue of Colloquia Germanica 44.4. (2011, Publication Date 2014). (With Ela Gezen)
Journal Articles
“Art, Artifice, and Eroticized Infantilization: Imagining Japanese Femininities in the Weimar Republic in Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919) and Kapitän Mertens’ 'Kio, die lasterhafte Kirschblüte' (1924/25).” The German Quarterly 96.3 (Summer 2023)
"Turkish Émigrés, European Artists: Re/Discovering a Web of Turkish-European Artists in 1980s West-Germany and Europe." Monatshefte 113.2 (2021): 186-207.
"Orientalist Fashion, Photography, and Fantasies: Baron Max von Oppenheim's Arabian Nights in Context." The German Quarterly 90.4 (2017): 439-458.
--> Women in German Best Article Prize 2018.
“Reframing Islam: The Decoupling of Ethnicity from Religion in Turkish-German Media.” Colloquia Germanica 47.1 Special Issue on Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First Century Culture (2014, Publication date 2017): 59-82.
“The Sound of Fatih Akın’s Cinema: Polyphony and the Aesthetics of Heterogeneity in The Edge of Heaven” German Studies Review 37.2 (2014): 337-356.
“Remixing Film Histories: Fatih Akın and the Creation of a Transnational Film History.” Colloquia Germanica 44.4 Special Issue on Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts (2011, Publication date 2014): 450-567.
Book Chapters
“Diversification and Politicization of a Discourse: Yilmaz Güney and Wim Wenders’s Room 666 (1982).” Festschrift for Janet Swaffar, edited by Hiram Maxim and Katherine Arens, 91-110. Agarita, 2023.
"Im Juli (2000) Roadmovies und ein dehnbares, diverses Europa nach 1989." Invited contribution for Die Filme Fatih Akıns, eds. Cornelia Ruhe and Thomas Wortmann, 105-125. Paderborn: Brill-Fink-Verlag, 2022.
"Young, Diverse, and Polyglot: Ilker Çatak and Amelia Umuhire Track the New Urban Sound of Europe." In Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990, edited by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik, 172-195. Berghahn Books, 2022.
"Screening Urban Space and Belonging in Germany: Contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen’s Auf den zweiten Blick/At Second Glance (2013), Ines Johnson-Spain’s Becoming Black (2019), and Amelia Umuhire’s Polyglot (2015)" Invited contribution for Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement, ed. Laurie Johnson. Bloomsbury, 2022.
“Fatih Akın’s Filmic Visions of Europe: Spatial and Aural Constructions of Europe in Im Juli (In July, 2000)” East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema. (Traditions in World Cinema Series). Eds. Todd Herzog and Michael Gott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. 79-93.
“Wut - Who is Enraged? Violence in the ‘Victim Society.’” Türkisch-deutsche Studien, Jahrbuch 2013: Jugendbilder - Repräsentationen von Jugend in Medien und Politik. Eds. Şeyda Ozil, Michael Hofmann und Yasemin Dayıoglu-Yücel. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013. 95-112.
“Mehmet Kurtuluş and Birol Ünel: Sexualized Masculinities, Normalized Ethnicities.” Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens. Eds. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. 136-148.
Interviews and Shorter Pieces
"Los múltiples rostros del cine turco-alemán,"/"The Many Faces of Turkish-German Cinema," (translated by journal) invited contribution afkar/ideas 52 (invierno 2016/2017)
"Ja, dann mach doch was mit Film. Werd' doch Filmemacher.' Einleitung von Berna Gueneli." In Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext. Ed. Ömer Alkın. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, 2017. 407-423.
"Interview with Filmmaker İlker Çatak." In Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext.
“Introduction: Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts” Special Issue of Colloquia
Germanica 44.4 (2011; publ. date 2014): 377-381. (with Ela Gezen).
“Introduction: Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future.” Special Volume of Jahrbuch türkisch-deutsche
Studien 2015. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (with Ela Gezen).
Reviews
Review of DisOrientation: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811-1946 by Kristin Dickinson. German Studies Review 54, no.2 (2022): 377-379.
Review of Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema by Claudia Breger. Monatshefte 114, no. 2 (2022): 343-346.
Review of Brecht, Turkish Theater, Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 by Ela Gezen. The German Quarterly (Winter 2020): 157-160.
Review of In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema by Ipek Celik. Seminar 54.4 (2018): 551-554.
Review of Interkulturelle Begegnungsräume: Neue Identitätskonstruktionen in der türkisch-deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur by Saniye Uysal Ünalan. Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 107. 2 (2015): 345-347.
Review of An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany by Claudia Breger. Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 105.4 (2013): 739-741.
“Is Contemporary German Filmmaking Beyond a ‘Cinema of Consensus?’” Review of New Directions in German Cinema by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood, eds. H-German, H-Net Reviews. September, 2013.
Review of Kultur als Ereignis: Fatih Akın’s ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ als transkulturelle Narration by Özkan Ezli, ed. The German Quarterly 85.2 (Spring 2012): 235-36.
Review of Dr. Seuss’s The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. – Original Music by Frederick Hollander. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 43.2 (2012): 310-314.
Manuscripts In Progress
"The Arabian Nights in Weimar Cinema," journal article/manuscript (drafted, under review)
Co-guest editor, working title: "Visualizing German Orientalism," Special issue of Colloquia Germanica (with Kristin Dickinson)
Fatih Akın’s Cinema and the New Sound of Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
- reviewed by Florian Gassner in Monatshefte (2021); by Ecem Yildirim in Transnational Screens (2020); by Roger Hillman in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (2020); by Kristin Dickinson in EuropeNow (2020); by Noah Isenberg in German Studies Review (2020); by Christina Kraenzle in German Quarterly (2020); and by Seda Oz in Journal of Religion and Film (2019).
Invited Guest Editorship Special Issue (Journal) and Special Volume (Book)
Co-Guest editor. Turkish German Studies: Past, Present, and Future. Special Volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien Jahrbuch 2015. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (With Ela Gezen)
Co-Guest Editor. Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts. Special Issue of Colloquia Germanica 44.4. (2011, Publication Date 2014). (With Ela Gezen)
Journal Articles
“Art, Artifice, and Eroticized Infantilization: Imagining Japanese Femininities in the Weimar Republic in Fritz Lang’s Harakiri (1919) and Kapitän Mertens’ 'Kio, die lasterhafte Kirschblüte' (1924/25).” The German Quarterly 96.3 (Summer 2023)
"Turkish Émigrés, European Artists: Re/Discovering a Web of Turkish-European Artists in 1980s West-Germany and Europe." Monatshefte 113.2 (2021): 186-207.
"Orientalist Fashion, Photography, and Fantasies: Baron Max von Oppenheim's Arabian Nights in Context." The German Quarterly 90.4 (2017): 439-458.
--> Women in German Best Article Prize 2018.
“Reframing Islam: The Decoupling of Ethnicity from Religion in Turkish-German Media.” Colloquia Germanica 47.1 Special Issue on Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First Century Culture (2014, Publication date 2017): 59-82.
“The Sound of Fatih Akın’s Cinema: Polyphony and the Aesthetics of Heterogeneity in The Edge of Heaven” German Studies Review 37.2 (2014): 337-356.
“Remixing Film Histories: Fatih Akın and the Creation of a Transnational Film History.” Colloquia Germanica 44.4 Special Issue on Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts (2011, Publication date 2014): 450-567.
Book Chapters
“Diversification and Politicization of a Discourse: Yilmaz Güney and Wim Wenders’s Room 666 (1982).” Festschrift for Janet Swaffar, edited by Hiram Maxim and Katherine Arens, 91-110. Agarita, 2023.
"Im Juli (2000) Roadmovies und ein dehnbares, diverses Europa nach 1989." Invited contribution for Die Filme Fatih Akıns, eds. Cornelia Ruhe and Thomas Wortmann, 105-125. Paderborn: Brill-Fink-Verlag, 2022.
"Young, Diverse, and Polyglot: Ilker Çatak and Amelia Umuhire Track the New Urban Sound of Europe." In Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990, edited by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik, 172-195. Berghahn Books, 2022.
"Screening Urban Space and Belonging in Germany: Contemporary Berliners in Sheri Hagen’s Auf den zweiten Blick/At Second Glance (2013), Ines Johnson-Spain’s Becoming Black (2019), and Amelia Umuhire’s Polyglot (2015)" Invited contribution for Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement, ed. Laurie Johnson. Bloomsbury, 2022.
“Fatih Akın’s Filmic Visions of Europe: Spatial and Aural Constructions of Europe in Im Juli (In July, 2000)” East, West and Centre: Reframing post-1989 European Cinema. (Traditions in World Cinema Series). Eds. Todd Herzog and Michael Gott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015. 79-93.
“Wut - Who is Enraged? Violence in the ‘Victim Society.’” Türkisch-deutsche Studien, Jahrbuch 2013: Jugendbilder - Repräsentationen von Jugend in Medien und Politik. Eds. Şeyda Ozil, Michael Hofmann und Yasemin Dayıoglu-Yücel. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2013. 95-112.
“Mehmet Kurtuluş and Birol Ünel: Sexualized Masculinities, Normalized Ethnicities.” Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens. Eds. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. 136-148.
Interviews and Shorter Pieces
"Los múltiples rostros del cine turco-alemán,"/"The Many Faces of Turkish-German Cinema," (translated by journal) invited contribution afkar/ideas 52 (invierno 2016/2017)
"Ja, dann mach doch was mit Film. Werd' doch Filmemacher.' Einleitung von Berna Gueneli." In Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext. Ed. Ömer Alkın. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, 2017. 407-423.
"Interview with Filmmaker İlker Çatak." In Deutsch-Türkische Filmkultur im Migrationskontext.
“Introduction: Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish-German Texts and Contexts” Special Issue of Colloquia
Germanica 44.4 (2011; publ. date 2014): 377-381. (with Ela Gezen).
“Introduction: Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future.” Special Volume of Jahrbuch türkisch-deutsche
Studien 2015. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (with Ela Gezen).
Reviews
Review of DisOrientation: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811-1946 by Kristin Dickinson. German Studies Review 54, no.2 (2022): 377-379.
Review of Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema by Claudia Breger. Monatshefte 114, no. 2 (2022): 343-346.
Review of Brecht, Turkish Theater, Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 by Ela Gezen. The German Quarterly (Winter 2020): 157-160.
Review of In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema by Ipek Celik. Seminar 54.4 (2018): 551-554.
Review of Interkulturelle Begegnungsräume: Neue Identitätskonstruktionen in der türkisch-deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur by Saniye Uysal Ünalan. Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 107. 2 (2015): 345-347.
Review of An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany by Claudia Breger. Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 105.4 (2013): 739-741.
“Is Contemporary German Filmmaking Beyond a ‘Cinema of Consensus?’” Review of New Directions in German Cinema by Paul Cooke and Chris Homewood, eds. H-German, H-Net Reviews. September, 2013.
Review of Kultur als Ereignis: Fatih Akın’s ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ als transkulturelle Narration by Özkan Ezli, ed. The German Quarterly 85.2 (Spring 2012): 235-36.
Review of Dr. Seuss’s The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. – Original Music by Frederick Hollander. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal 43.2 (2012): 310-314.
Manuscripts In Progress
"The Arabian Nights in Weimar Cinema," journal article/manuscript (drafted, under review)
Co-guest editor, working title: "Visualizing German Orientalism," Special issue of Colloquia Germanica (with Kristin Dickinson)