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2026

Interview: https://youtu.be/VR3g23lvFac?si=Mvxm2dSxBhLOH7nt

New Book Announcement, Poetry in Motion: Comparing Materials and Media of Early Modern Short Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2026)

Summer 2025

June: Research visit as visiting scholar at the "Small Forms" Graduate School, Humboldt University, Berlin 

Summer 2024

Visiting Scholar at the Medieval Institute, The University of Notre Dame, Indiana USA (Summer 2024). 

Latest Publications:

2024

“A Literary Landscape of Istanbul, Türkiye: Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Criticism." Configurations.” Configurations (Johns Hopkins University Press) 32, no. 4 (2024): 351–73. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.2024.a942088 

“A Poetic Geography: Placing Urban Literature in Two Districts of Istanbul, Türkiye.” Textual Practice: Journal of Radical Literary Studies, 2024 [SSCI: Q1]. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2347250   

“Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: A Comparison of Corporal Morphology in Buchner’s Lenz (1836) and Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).” Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur. Accepted, 51, June, 2024, pp 1-11. [ESCI] https://doi.org/10.26650/sdsl2023-1446598 

(Translation) Gerstenberger, Katharina. “The Representation of Alaska in Peter Handke’s Slow Homecoming through the lens of Nature Writing. Trans. Jameson B. Kısmet Bell. In: Dürbeck, G., Kanz, C. (eds) German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present. Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50910-0_12

“‘A Dog’s Revenge’ Comparative Viability of an Early Modern Verbal, Pictorial, and Dramatic Proverb”. KARE, no. 17 (June 2024): 45-58. https://doi.org/10.38060/kare.1461888.

2023

“Istanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles.” Space and Culture. 1 (1) 2023: 1-16. doi:10.1177/12063312231155354  [SSCI Q 3]

"Locating the Hand and Touch in Sixteenth Century Surgical Writings of Ambrose Paré and Hans von Gersdorff."  Mersin University Journal of History of Medicine and Folklore. Sept, 2023. https://doi.org/10.31020/mutftd.1285933 

“Aphorism”. The Literary Encyclopedia. WORLD HISTORY AND IDEAS: A CROSS-CULTURAL VOLUME. Cristina Sandru & Robert Clark, eds. 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=67

“The Merry Thought, Vols. 1-4, (1729-)”. In Paul Baines, Daniel Cook, Pat Rogers, Nicholas Seager (eds.). The Literary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789. September, 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19740

“Allegory”. The Literary Encyclopedia. WORLD HISTORY AND IDEAS: A CROSS-CULTURAL VOLUME. Cristina Sandru & Robert Clark, eds. July 14, 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19735

“Esther Inglis”. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods), 1485-1625.  J. A. Roe, Cristina Sandru & Robert Clark, eds. July 19, 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15086

“Geoffrey Whitney (1548-1601)”. The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods), 1485-1625.  J. A. Roe, Cristina Sandru & Robert Clark, eds. July 19, 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15087

"Teaching Short Genres: Experimenting with Mobile Annotations Outside the Classroom," in Kelley Walters (ed.), Dynamic Curriculum Development and Design Strategies for Effective Online Learning in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.  September, 2023, pp.113-136. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/the-city-as-anthology/331578

Grants

Research Grant: “Literature is Everywhere: A Comparative Field Guide to Urban Literary Landscapes in Three Cities: Istanbul, Chicago, Berlin.” Βοğaziçi University Research Grant Fund BAP (23BP9), 2023-2026. https://bit.ly/3DAjTb3.

Recent Conferences & Presentations:

"Mapping Tropes: A Literary Landscape in the Rasimpaşa Neighborhood of İstanbul, Turkey” at Istanbul University. The Linguistic Landscape of Istanbul: Possibilities and Prospects, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2023.

“Mapping Maxims: A Literary Landscape of İstanbul, Turkey.” The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Conference. Purdue University, 10/2022.

“Teaching Short Genres: Experimenting with Mobile Annotations Outside the Classroom.” Electronic Literature Association, Como, Italy. 06/2022.  

“Location-based Study of Short Verbal Expression: A Media Analysis of Literary Migrations in Three Districts of Kadiköy, Istanbul.” Critical and Cultural Studies MA, Bogazici University, Program Lecture Series. 02/2021.

News/Media

Fall, 2019: Interview about Performing the Sixteenth-Century Brain.  

Fall, 2019: Interview about Performing the Sixteenth-Century Brain.