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Humanities Division
History of Consciousness Department
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
Politics Department
Literature Department
Humanities & Social Sciences Building
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I am a doctoral candidate in the History of Consciousness Department with designated emphases in Literature and Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My dissertation project reads the history of the Turkish nation-state as a history of monsters, tracing it back to the Ottoman notions of monstrosity in the nineteenth century.
critical theory; social and political thought; postcolonial studies; gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies; Middle East studies (history of the modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and Ottoman-Turkish literature); aesthetics; Islam, religion, and the secular
TA Experience
POLI105B: Early Modern Political Thought (Fall 2022, UCSC)
HISC80T: What is the Witch? Terror, Subjectivity, Modernity (Spring 2023, UCSC)
POLI118: Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory (Spring 2024, UCSC)
THEA80C: Monsters (Winter 2023, Fall 2024, UCSC)
HAVC30: Introduction to European Visual Culture (Winter 2024, Winter 2025, UCSC)
2024 - Graduate Student Travel Funding, Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
2024 - Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
2024 - Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, UCSC Graduate Symposium
2023 - THI Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
2023 - Gary Lease Fellowship, Humanities Division, UC Santa Cruz
2022 - Student Travel Grant, Cultural Studies Association
2021-2022 - Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz
2021 - MA Thesis Award (for best thesis), Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University
Journal Articles
"Hüseyin Rahmi's Queer Hauntology: (Un-)Making of the Secular Nation/State/Self," Culture, Theory and Critique (online first, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2355112
"Gazing at Monsters: Aesthetics, Politics, and the National Distribution of the Sensible," Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 16, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2024.2315657
Book Reviews
Review of Salih Can Açıksöz, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (U of California Press, 2019), Cultural Studies 37, no. 3 (2023): 539-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2108866
Review of Annemarie Mol, Eating in Theory (Duke UP, 2021), Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale 30, no. 2 (2022): 185-187. https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2022.300211
Other
"Foucault: Power," Critical Legal Thinking (Key Concepts) (2024). https://criticallegalthinking.com/2024/08/27/foucault-power/
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