Nisan Karaca, M.A.
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NameMs Nisan Karaca M.A.
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Curriculum Vitae
| 2022 - 2025 | Research Assistant in British Cultural Studies at TU Dresden |
| 04/2022 | Master of Arts in English Studies: Literature, Language, Culture at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Special Student of English Literature at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
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06/2016 |
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey |
Research Interests
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Melodrama Studies
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Popular Culture
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Spatiality and Power Relations
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Incarceration/ Carceral Representations and Identity
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Institutionalised Racism
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Sensory Studies
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Colonialism and Postcolonialism
PhD Project
"Who Are You (Actually) Crying For?: Melodramatic Mode and Institutionalized Racism in Contemporary Prison Films"
Articles and Book Chapters
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forthcoming
Reviews
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Review of Muslims Making British Media: Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion by Carl Morris (Bloomsbury, 2022) for Journal for the Study of British Cultures (in preparation)
Conference Papers
Upcoming
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"Auditory 'Dissonance' in The Penumbra Podcast: Queering the Heterosexual Detective" (Monash University, Melbourne, Captivating Criminality 12: Crime Fiction and the Global Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, 25.-27.06.2025, virtual participation)
Past
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"Tears in Black and White: Colour and Melodrama in Prison Film" (University of Gothenburg, Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Creative Perspectives for Researching Mental Health and Social Problems, 11.-12.02.2025)
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"Colours of Incarceration" (South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Seen and Unseen, Panel: Unreal Prisonscapes, 16.11.2024)
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“Sounds Travel: Deconstruction of Sexual ‘Deviance’” (University of Zürich, Women and Crime Fiction, 08.06.2024)
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“Empathy Unleashed: Deconstruction of the Moral Detective” (The University of New England, The Popular Culture Research Network, Guilty Pleasures: Examining Crime in Popular Culture, 03.05.2024)
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Bremen University, Student Conference 2022 by MA E-SC (Master’s thesis is presented)
“[They had] some confused notion...”: Indoctrination of the Young via Comic Books in James Joyce’s “An Encounter” (Freie University English Studies, Student Conference 2019 by Dr. Ruth Wishart)
Teaching
- Summer 2024: "'Big Brother' is Watching Us: Reality Shows of the UK"
- Winter 2023/24: "The Smell of Culture"
- Summer 2023: "Forced to Cross a Border: 'Exile' in Literature and on Screen"
Chairing Duties
- Global Complicities Symposium, 2023 (chaired Panel 4)
- Complicities Enfoldings and Unfoldings Conference, 2022 (chaired Panel 4)