Nisan Karaca, M.A.

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Ms Nisan Karaca M.A.

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Melodrama Studies

• Popular Culture

• Spatiality and Power Relations

• Incarceration/ Carceral Representations and Identity

• Institutionalised Racism

• Sensory Studies

• Colonialism and Postcolonialism

PhD Project

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

Articles and Book Chapters

• forthcoming

Reviews

• 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)

Talks

• Upcoming: “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)

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)