I am Associate Professor of German at the University of Georgia, Athens. I have a background in English and Spanish philology, and have studied in Germany, Spain, and the US. My PhD is in Germanic Studies (from The University of Texas at Austin, 2011). I am a specialist in 20/21st century German film and culture as well as ethnicity and minority studies. I love to teach courses on a wide range of topics within German language, literature, culture, and film.
My primary research area is on German cinema, Turkish-German studies, and Orientalist media. In 2019, I published the first comprehensive (English language) monograph on Fatih Akın and his cinema, Fatih Akın's Cinema and The New Sound of Europe (Indiana University Press, 2019).
My new projects examine Orientalist film and visual media during the Weimar Republic (Weimar Orientalisms), Turkish exile artists in Cold-War Europe ("Turkish Exiles, European Artists"), and Turkish German artistic productions (film, fine arts, multimedia) across the 20th and 21st centuries.
My primary research area is on German cinema, Turkish-German studies, and Orientalist media. In 2019, I published the first comprehensive (English language) monograph on Fatih Akın and his cinema, Fatih Akın's Cinema and The New Sound of Europe (Indiana University Press, 2019).
My new projects examine Orientalist film and visual media during the Weimar Republic (Weimar Orientalisms), Turkish exile artists in Cold-War Europe ("Turkish Exiles, European Artists"), and Turkish German artistic productions (film, fine arts, multimedia) across the 20th and 21st centuries.