Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Dept of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies
PO Box 11-0236, Riad El Solh
Beirut
1107-2020
Lebanon
ABOUT
I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. I received my PhD from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University in 2015 for my dissertation, A dizi-ying past: Magnificent Century and the motivated uses of history in contemporary Turkey, which examines the circulation of and controversies surrounding the Ottoman costume drama Muhtes?em Yüzy?l through an ethnographic investigation of the producers, distributors, cultural intermediaries, and publics for the show. In 2014-2015 I was a research fellow with the Istanbul Studies Center at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, where I performed ethnographic research on censorship and film festivals in Turkey. My areas of specialization include image studies, media ethnography, reception, censorship, history and culture of modern Turkey, nationalism, and media production. I also do freelance writing on Turkish media and keep a blog on that issue at www.mediascreenturkey.com.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Identity/Representation
Turkish Studies
Cultural Studies
Cinema/Film
Ethnography
Nationalism
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Specialties
The Blending Of Fact And Fiction In Turkish Popula
Censorship In Turkey With A Particular Focus On Ci
US/Turkish Relations And Way That Images And Popul
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2015
| Communication and Culture
| Indiana University
MA
| 2015
| Central Eurasian Studies
| Indiana University
MFA
| 2003
| English
| University of Arizona
MA
| 2001
| English
| Western Washington University
BA
| 1997
| Biology
| Whitman College
Abstracts
Martyrs and Traitors: A Study of The Narrative Web Spun for Operation Sun (Güne? Harekat?) in Hürriyet
A dizi-ying empire: constructions of Turkish eminence through the international distribution of TV drama
Cynical valley - conspiracy genres in the Turkish TV drama Valley of the Wolves
Cases of death: performative mourning among the publics of Turkish TV drama
