Nisan Karaca, M.A.

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft

Ms Nisan Karaca M.A.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2022	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
06/2016	Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

"Who Are You (Actually) Crying For?: Melodramatic Mode and Institutionalized Racism in Contemporary Prison Films"

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)

"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)

"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)
"Colours of Incarceration" (South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Seen and Unseen, Panel: Unreal Prisonscapes, 16.11.2024)
“Sounds Travel: Deconstruction of Sexual ‘Deviance’” (University of Zürich, Women and Crime Fiction, 08.06.2024)
“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)
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)