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Duygu Ula
Barnard College
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Duygu Ula is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the First-Year Writing Program at Barnard College. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on queer aesthetics, identity and cultural productions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey, and how local modes and expressions of queerness modify, resist and complicate western-centric formulations of gender and sexual identity.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Nationalism
Turkish
Queer/LGBT Studies
Identity/Representation
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Former Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Queer Aesthetics
Lgbtq/queer Art, Film And Literature
Languages
Turkish (native)
Italian (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Latin (elementary)
English (advanced)
Bosnian (intermediate)
Croatian (intermediate)
Serbian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2019 | Comparative Literature | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA | 2012 | Cultural Studies | Sabanci University
BA | 2010 | English;Cinema and Media Studies | Wellesley College
Abstracts
Representations of State Violence: The Language Reform in Film and Contemporary Art from Turkey Viewing Gender: Politics of Comparison in Mustang, Zenne and Conscience Towards a Local Queer Aesthetics: Nilbar Güres’s Photography and Female Homoerotic Intimacy Classed Sexualities in Yesim Ustaoglu's Clair Obscur