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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.