Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Sena Duran is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Culture with certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Film, Television, and Media Studies at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Emphasizing women of color feminist approaches to gender, Islam, race, and media, her research and writing attend to the history and production of Middle Eastern and Muslim women’s gendered racialization and racialized sexuality in U.S. visual cultural history and media practices. Sena received her B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and Middle East and North African Studies from the University of Michigan.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Ethnic American Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
North America
Languages
English (native)
Turkish (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
BA
| 2018
| Middle Eastern and North African Studies
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
BA
| 2018
| Women's Studies
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Abstracts
Sexual Terror and the Arab Demon: Identifying Ethnoreligious Monstrosity in The Exorcist
“Aroused at the Signs of Empire”: Fantasies of the Middle East in Stag Film
