Dr. Gülbin Kıranoğlu
CV
August 2023 - … TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND, Dortmund, Germany
Post-doctoral researcher – Faculty of Cultural Studies
DFG Research Unit-2600 “Ambiguity and Distinction: Historical and Cultural Dynamics” – Subproject: Dis/ambiguating Religious Affiliations: Sectarians, Atheists, and Secularists in the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
July 2020- July 2023 UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG-ESSEN, Essen, Germany
Post-doctoral researcher – Institute of Turkish Studies
DFG Research Unit-2600 “Ambiguity and Distinction: Historical and Cultural Dynamics”- Subproject: Religious Ambiguity in Turkey’s Literatures from 1923 to the Present: A Yardstick for an Open Society?
August 2006-June 2020 KOCAELİ UNIVERSITY Umuttepe-İzmit, Kocaeli/ Turkey
Lecturer -Department of Western Languages and Literatures
2016-2019 Member of the Board for Kocaeli University Disability Research and Application Centre
2006-2018 Kocaeli University Department of Western Languages and Literatures Erasmus Departmental Coordinator
2010-2012 Kocaeli University Department of Western Languages and Literatures English Preparatory Programme Coordinator
2009-2012 Kocaeli University Department of Western Languages and Literatures Assistant Chair
2009-2012 Kocaeli University Department of Western Languages and Literatures Bologna ECTS Departmental Coordinator
January 2000-June 2006 TED İSTANBUL COLLEGE/ Beykoz, İstanbul/ Turkey
EFL Teacher -Language Arts Division
September 2000 – September 2002 BAŞKENT UNIVERSITY/ Bağlıca, Ankara/ Turkey
Research Assistant - Department of American Culture and Literature
February 2000- September 2000 BRITISH COUNCIL/ Esat, Ankara/ Turkey
Research Assistant and Editor- British Council, Ankara Office
September 2009- January 2016 ANKARA UNIVERSITY/ Cebeci, Ankara, Turkey
PhD - Radio, Television and Cinema, Institute of Social Sciences
“Cultural Mythology of Istanbul Nostalgia: 1953-1965”
Advisor: Prof. Funda L. Şenol Cantek
September 2005 - June 2006 MARMARA UNIVERSITY/ Göztepe, İstanbul
English Language Teaching Certificate Program, Atatürk Institute of Educational Sciences
September 2000- July 2002 BASKENT UNIVERSITY/ Bağlıca, Ankara, Turkey
MA -American Culture and Literature (Full-tuition waiver), Institute of Social Sciences
“Generation X in Cultural Discourse: Douglas Coupland, Richard Linklater, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Fincher’s Works of Resistance”
Advisor: Prof. Victoria Lipina
October 1996- June 2000 BASKENT UNIVERSITY/ Bağlıca, Ankara, Turkey
BA -American Culture and Literature (Full-tuition Scholarship), Faculty of Science and Letters
University of Duisburg-Essen (Course Semester/ Title)
- 2018-2019 Winter/ Schreibwerkstatt - Writing Workshop
Kocaeli University (Course Semester/ Title)
Graduate Courses
- 2017-2018 Spring/ English Literature in Cinema
- 2017-2018 Fall/ Genre Studies
- 2016-2017 Spring/ American Cultural Studies
- 2016-2017 Fall/ Genre Studies
- 2015-2016 Spring/ English Literature in Cinema
Undergraduate Courses:
- 2017-2018 Fall/ Popular Culture
- 2017-2018 Fall/ Introduction to Film Studies
- 2017-2018 Fall/ American Literature
- 2017-2018 Fall/ Urban Culture and Identity
- 2016-2017 Spring/ Contemporary American Literature
- 2016-2017 Spring/ Introduction to Literature II
- 2016-2017 Spring/ Urban Culture and Identity
- 2016-2017 Fall/ Popular Culture
- 2016-2017 Fall/ American Literature
- 2016-2017 Fall/ Introduction to Literature I
- 2016-2017 Fall/ Urban Culture and Identity
- 2015-2016 Spring/ Film and Literature
- 2015-2016 Spring/ Contemporary American Literature
- 2015-2016 Spring/ Introduction to Literature II
- 2015-2016 Fall/ Popular Culture
- 2015-2016 Fall/ American Literature
- 2015-2016 Fall/ Introduction to Literature I
- 2014-2015 Spring/ Urban Culture and Identity
- 2014-2015 Spring/ Contemporary American Literature
- 2014-2015 Spring/ Introduction to Literature II
- 2014-2015 Fall/ Urban Culture and Identity
- 2014-2015 Fall/ Popular Culture
- 2014-2015 Fall/ American Literature
- 2014-2015 Fall/ Introduction to Literature I
- 2013-2014 Spring/ Film and Literature
- 2013-2014 Spring/ Contemporary American Literature
- 2013-2014 Spring/ Introduction to Literature II
- 2013-2014 Fall/ Popular Culture
- 2013-2014 Fall/ American Literature
- 2013-2014 Fall/ Introduction to Literature I
- American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, The Ottoman Empire, Its Minoritized Voices, and the Global South Seminar, “Appropriating Orientalism: Christopher Oscanyan's The Sultan and His People (1857)”, online, 16-19 March 2023.
- Central and Eastern European Communication and Media 2018 Communicative Space, Political Space Conference, “Nationalizing İstanbul: Urban Nostalgia in Midcentury Popular Culture”, University of Szeged, Hungary, 30 May-1 June 2018.
- Transcultural Perspectives Postgraduate Seminars, “Appreciation and the Appropriation of the Beats in 21st century Turkey: Neo-Beats in Turkey”, Opole Uniwersytet, Opole, Poland, June 2018.
- European Beat Studies Network 6th Annual Conference, “Translating the Beats: Cultural Belonging in Istanbul”, University of Chicago Center, Paris, France, 20-22 Sept. 2017.
- International American Studies Association 8th World Congress, “At the Margins, On the Crossroads: Accommodating Christopher Oscanyan in American and Turkish Historiographies”, Texas A&M University, Laredo, Texas, USA, 19-21 July 2017.
- Crossroads Conference 2016, “Approaching the Transnational America in Hayat magazine”, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 13-17 Dec. 2016.
- The Best Ideas? Nature, Nations, and Collective Memory Conference, “Landscapes of Nostalgia in Beyatlı and Hisar”, German Historical Institute, London, UK, 1-3 Dec. 2016.
- Minor Culture Conference, “Minor Literatures of 19th and 20th centuries in Turkey”, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2015.
- ILEF’in 50. Yılı: Madunların Medyası Tarihten Güncele Türkiye Anaakım Medyasının Dışında Kalanlar Konferansı, “Basın Yayın Tarihçiliğinde Çatlaklar”, Ankara Universitesi, Ankara, 28-29 May 2015.
- Postgraduate Seminar, “Neo Ottomanism and Urban Gentrification”, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-29 April 2014.
- Postgraduate Seminar, “Reconsidering American Renaissance”, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-29 April 2014.
- Buchenau, Barbara, Kıranoğlu, Gülbin, and Scheller, Benjamin, “Dis/Ambiguating Faith, Granting Rights and Property: Crypto-Religion and State Power in medieval Europe, colonial and early national North America and the late Ottoman Empire,” Ambiguität und Unterscheidung. Kaleidoskopische Betrachtungen, Eds: Benjamin Scheller and Marcel Müllerburg, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2024. [to be published]
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin, “Religious Belongings: The question of religious affiliation in the Hemshin settlements in the 19th century,” UNIKATE, “Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel,” no. 58. pp. 60–69, 2022, doi: 10.17185/duepublico/76299.
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin. “Bridges Across Broken Time: Armenian Minor Memoirs of the Turn of the 21st century” Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir, Eds: Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph, NY and London: Routledge, 2018.
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin. “Copyright and the Internet: The case of Napster”, Journal of Human Sciences, 13 (2), 2758-2767, 2016, doi: 10.14687/jhs.v13i2.3839
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin “Sisi Aralayan Işık: Ulis'in Bakışı”. Modern Zamanlar, no: 31, pp. 46-49, 2013.
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin, trans. “İzmir’de Misyonerlerin Ermenice Yayıncılık Faaliyetleri” İzmir: Tarihi Kentler ve Ermeniler, Istanbul: Aras Yayıncılık, İstanbul: 2018.
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin, trans. “Marksist Devlet ve Hukuk Teorisi”, Marksizm ve Devlet, Ed.: Taner Yelkenci, Ankara: Nota Bene Yayınları, 2013.
- Kıranoğlu, Gülbin, trans. “Ortak Duyu ve Modern Prens”, Felsefelogos Gramsci II, Ed: Sinan Ozbek, İstanbul: Fesatoder, 2013.
Professional Service
- Reviewer for Memory Studies (2017-…), 5-Year Impact factor: 1.6 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
Academic Memberships
- American Comparative Literature Association (2023-…)
- European Beat Studies Network (2017-…)
- International American Studies Association (2017-…)
- International Media and Nostalgia Network (2016-…)
- European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (2016-…)
- Association of Cultural Studies (2016-…)
- Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (2015-2016)
- Kocaeli Culture Collective Association (2011-2015)
- Cultural Studies Association of Turkey (2006-2007)
Fields of Interest
- Cultural Studies, Memory Studies, Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, American Studies, Turkish Studies