Can Aydın
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2022 | Research Associate in American Studies with a Focus on Diversity Studies| TU Dresden |
| 2017-2020 | Master of Arts in American and English Studies | Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany |
| 2012-2017 | Bachelor of Arts in American Studies | Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey |
Editorial Work
since September 2024 - Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies (COPAS)
Publications/Talks
Aydın, Can. “Imagination and Rewriting in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed: Layers of Material Practice.” Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies, edited by Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez and Ulla Stackmann, transcript Verlag, 2025, pp. 125–46. Lettre.
Aydın, Can. "You Are What You Eat! Cookbooks as a (National) Identity Forming Medium." 46th Annual Conference of the The Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS): The North: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities, Botschaft von Kanada Berlin, February 2025
Aydın, Can. “Why, Weren’t Black People in Lord of the Rings?”: The Politics and Publics of the Eric André Show.” (Re-)Shaping the Public Sphere: Cultural Productions as/and Interventions, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, November 2024.
Aydın, Can. “Carving Up the Northwest Territories in Paying the Land.” Territory, Tension, and Taboo: Canada in Crisis, Universität Bremen, October 2024.
Aydın, Can. “Deviant and Ashamed: Queer Indigenous Subject Formation in the Age of Grindr.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2024, pp. 31–45. https://doi.org/10.5283/COPAS.385.
Aydın, Can. “Imagining the (Cyber)Wilderness: Carving Out Geographies of Resistance in Jonny Appleseed.” Practices of Imagination – Placings of Imaginaries, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, February 2024.
Aydın, Can. “Abandoned Shame in A History of My Brief Body.” Spaces of Affect in the Americas, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, November 2023.
Aydın, Can. “The ‘Other’ in Me: Transgressing the Settler AI.” Disruptive Imaginations. Joint Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association & Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, TU Dresden, August 2023.
Aydın, Can. “Hyperscenarios of Discovery in the Cyberwilderness.” Contested Canada: Navigating Past, Present and Future Sovereignties, John F. Kennedy Institute - Freie Universität Berlin, June 2023.
Aydın, Can. “Strata of Bodies: Dynamic Positionings in Kent Monkman’s Paintings.” DeMarg 5: Tracing Forms of Demarginalization. International conference of the European Research Network on Discourses of Marginality and Demarginalizations, TU Dresden, June 2023, https://demarg.eu/activities;
Research Interests
- Indigenous Studies
- Life Writing
- Postmodern Literature