İPEK A. ÇELİK RAPPAS
Department of Media and Visual Arts& Graduate Program in Design, Technology and Society Koç University CSSH, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey 34450 +90 (212) 338-1117 · [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2014 - Koç University Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Arts & Graduate Program in Design, Technology and Society
2012 - 2014 Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey) Assistant Professor of Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas
2009 - 2012 Brown University Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (2011- 2012) Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities, Cogut Center for the Humanities & Department of Comparative Literature (2009-2011)
EDUCATION
2009 PhD, Comparative Literature, New York University
2005 MA, Comparative Literature, New York University
2002 MA, Cultural Studies, The Ohio State University
2000 BA, Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul)
BOOK
In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in European Media and Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2015)
Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, “bogus” asylum seekers. Through analysis of work by established filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuarón, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to question how ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe are treated as adornments of catastrophe. See more at: https://www.press.umich.edu/8305515/in_permanent_crisis#sthash.HG5SF9jS.dpuf
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Race and ethnicity in European cinemas; minorities in the Mediterranean; the role of creative industries in urban renovation; film and television production studies
ARTICLES
AHCI Indexed Journals:
“From Anti-colonial to Jihadist: Exploring a History of Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s London River (2009), Hors la loi (2010) and La Route d’Istanbul (2016),” submitted for a special issue of Studies in French Cinema.
With Sezen Kayhan, “Urban Restructuring of Istanbul in and through TV Series,” Television and New Media, forthcoming in 2017.
“Urban Change in Action Genre: Marseilles in Luc Besson’s Taxi series,” French Cultural Studies, forthcoming in 2016.
“Corporeal Violence in Art-House Cinema: Cannes 2009,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, available online, hardcopy in October 2016.
“Re-Imagining Union in Europe: The Politics of Body, Family and Reproduction in Sotiris Dimitriou’s Short Stories,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 32/2 (October 2014): 417-442.
“New Directions for Studying the Mediterranean: Eventfulness in Rhea Galanaki’s Novel The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Spina nel Cuore,” Clio: Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 41/1 (Fall 2011): 75-101.
“‘I Wanted You to Be Present’: Guilt and History of Violence in Michael Haneke’s Hidden,” Cinema Journal 50/1 (Fall 2010): 59-80.
Articles in Other Peer-Reviewed Journals and Books:
“Screening Cosmopolitan and Mediterranean Marseilles,” in Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean Francophonies, eds. Megan MacDonald and Claire Launchbury, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, forthcoming in 2017.
“Internal Borders in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth (Kynodontas-2009)” in Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010, eds. Raita Merivirta, Kimmo Ahonen, Heta Mulari and Rami Mähkä (Bristol: Intellect, 2013): 217-234.
“Performing Veiled Women as Marketable Commodities: Representations of Muslim Minority Women in Germany,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32/1 (Spring 2012): 116-129.
“Alternative History, Expanding Identity: Myths Reconsidered in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry,” in Mahmoud Darwish, Exile’s Poet: Critical Essays, eds. Hala Khamis-Nassar and Najat Rahman (Northampton: Interlink, 2007): 273-293.
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Other Articles, Book Reviews, Interviews, Encyclopedia Entries:
Book review. Ozlem Koksal. Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen. (Bloomsbury 2016), New Perspectives on Turkey, forthcoming in 2016.
“A Brief History of Halk (People) in Modern Turkey,” Indian Folklife (Guest Editor Professor Dorothy Noyes) 5/19, April 2005:16-19.
“Human Landscapes from My Country by Nazim Hikmet,” in Middle Eastern Literature and Its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Thomson Gale Publishing, 2004): 172-186.
Book review. Mahmoud Darwish. The Adam of Two Edens: Collected Poems. (Syracuse 2001), Middle East& South Asia Folklore Bulletin 30/3, Autumn 2004: 7-8.
Book review. Gul Ozyegin. Untidy Gender: Domestic Service in Turkey. (Philadelphia 2001), International Journal of Middle East Studies 36/2, May 2004: 327-328.
“Security” Policies and Human Rights in Post-09/11 USA: Interview with New York Attorney Asli Bali” (in Turkish), Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar Vol.1/1, October 2006.
“Stories are like Wine, They Mature as They Get Older: Interview with Lebanese Writer Elias Khouri” (in Turkish), BGST Bilim ve Toplum, May 2006.
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
2016 New York University, Visiting Scholar in Center for European& Mediterranean Studies
2016 Koç University, Outgoing Visiting Scholar Fund 2013 LabexMed Scholarship, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, ‟Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale–Méditerranée” (TELEMMe) Research Unit (Aix-en-Provence) 2011-2012 Brown University, Salomon Curricular Development Grant (with Professor Karen Newman)
2010-2011 Brown University, International Affairs Colloquium Award (with five Comparative Literature Graduate Students)
2010-2011 Brown University, Dean of Faculty Lectureship Fund (with Professor Suzanne Stewart- Steinberg)
2008 New York University, Penfield Fellowship for Studies in Diplomacy, International Affairs and Belles Lettres
2007-2008 Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship in Ethics
2007 Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation, Fellowship for Research in Greece
2005 New York University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Pre-Doctoral Research Grant
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2004 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, grant to attend Summer Academy “Literature and Borders: Delimitations, Transgressions” in Alexandria, Egypt
2003, 2004 New York University, The Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies Grant for Modern Greek language study
2002-2007 New York University, MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship
2002 The Ohio State University Mershon Center and Zagreb Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, grant to attend “Gender and Nation, Tradition and Transition” Workshop in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Koc University, Department of Media and Visual Arts Media and Identity Humanities: Hegemony, Power and the People Film Theory European Cinema
Bilkent University, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas
Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas 1: Antiquity Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas 2: Modernity
Rhode Island School of Design, Department of English
Mobility and Claustrophobia: Contemporary European and Middle Eastern Cinema
Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature
Levantine Cities: Istanbul, Athens and Alexandria Collective Struggles and Cultural Politics in the Global South Violence and Representation Blue or Red Pill? Reality and Narrative Realism
New York University, Department of Comparative Literature
Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean in Literature and Film Crime Fiction and Film Migrant and Residual: Other Narratives of Europe Poetics of Resistance in the Mediterranean Conversations of the West: Antiquity and the Nineteenth, Teaching Assistant Conversations of the West: Antiquity and the Enlightenment, Teaching Assistant
Other teaching:
“On Gramsci and the Southern Question,” Graduate Seminar on Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, February 2012
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“Migration and Xenophobia in Europe,” Lecture in Course on Global History, Northeastern University, April 2011; Lecture in Course on European Studies, San Diego State University, December 2010
“Exile in Tassos Boulmetis’s film A Touch of Spice,” Lecture in Course on Ethnic Relations in the Mediterranean, Koc University, Istanbul, July 2010
“Knowledge of the Self and the Other: Lacan, Ashis Nandy and Giorgios Vizyenos,” Rhode Island Dept. of Corrections, J. J. Moran Medium Security Prison, December 2009
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Invited Book Talks:
The Alamanya Transnational German Studies Workshop, University of Michigan, April 2016
Migration Research Center, Koc University, Istanbul, November 2015
Other Invited Lectures:
“The Director as Humanitarian Activist: Representing Refugees in European Screens,” Refugees in Europe: A Long History of Representation, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, May 2016
“Minorités turques et mélodrame allemand au travers de “Head on” (2004),” Séminaire transversal TELEMMe: Migrants au cinéma en Europe, Aix-en-Provence, June 2013
“Empathy with Armenians?” LabexMed Seminar 2013, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, June 2013
“Haneke sinemasında suçluluk ve hafıza,” Söyleşi: Ka Fotoğraf Atölyesi, Ankara, January 2013
“Dystopia in the Background: Terror and Camp in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men,” Bilkent University, Ankara, December 2012
“A Contemporary Greek Tragedy: Reviving the Genre of Disorder,” Koc University, Istanbul, May 2011
“Corporal Violence in Art Cinema,” Sabanci University, Istanbul, February 2011
“Has Europe’s Multiculturalism Failed? Imagining a Diverse Union,” San Diego State University, San Diego, December 2010
“Nazim Hikmet: Poetics of Solidarity,” Poetry Evening in Honor of Nazim Hikmet, Brown University, May 2010
“Armenians in Contemporary Turkish Literature,” Middle East Study Group Meeting, Watson Institute, Brown University, April 2010
“Dreadful Realism in Michael Haneke’s Caché: Violence and Representation of Minorities in European Cultural Production,” Comparative Literature Colloquium, Brown University, November 2009
“Violence, Migration and the Borders of Europe,” Pembroke Center Colloquium, Brown University,
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November 2009
“Papadiamandis and Dimitriou: Imagining Greece from Below,” The Modern Greek Seminar, Columbia University, February 2009
Selected Conference Presentations:
“Representation of Refugees in European Cinema,” Council of European Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2016
“The Epitome of Victimhood: The Refugee in European Cinema,” ECREA Film Studies Conference, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, November 2015
“Violence in Art Cinema,” Turkish Philosophy Association Istanbul Seminars, Koc University, Istanbul, December 2014
“Imagining a Mediterranean Capital of Culture,” Mapping the Mediterranean Conference at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2013
“Cannes 2009: Violence, Financial Crisis and Post-Foucauldian Society,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Boston, March 2012
“Beyond Criminal and Victim: The Migrant in European Genre Cinema,” [TRANS]national Subjects: Framing Post-1989 Migration on the European Screen, Leuven, December 2011
“Narrating the Historical Massacres: The Cretan Revolts in Rhea Galanaki’s Ismail Ferik Pasha,” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, October 2011
“Family and National Guilt in Michael Haneke’s Cinema,” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Meeting, Istanbul, June 2010
“Veiled Women’s Narratives as Marketable Commodities,” Veiled Constellations Conference, University of Toronto and York University, June 2010
“Taking Bodies to the Extreme,” The Body as Site and Sign: a Multi-Disciplinary Conference on the Body, Pembroke Center, Brown University, April 2010
“Violence and Contemporary Realism,” Cultural Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, March 2010
“The Economy of Female Bodies in Alexandros Papadiamantis’s The Murderess,” International Graduate Students Conference in Modern Greek Literature, Princeton University, May 2009
“Muslim Women in Film and Literature,” Panel Co-Organizer (with Assistant Professor Beverly Weber), and Presenter “Muslim Family vs. European Family,” American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, Boston, March 2009
“‘They, the Liberated Zone, We, the Besieged’: Turkish-German Minority Women’s Narratives Against the Victim Status,” Comparative Literature Colloquium, New York University, May 2008
“Depicting Migrant Violence and Criminality in the New Europe,” American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, Puebla, April 2007
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RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Curator (with Cagla Turgul), “Dreams and Magic: An Exhibition of Early Cinema Posters,” Koc University, RAMPA Gallery, May 2016
Production Assistant, “Romeo vs. Juliet,” (NYU Tisch Short Film Project), Dir. Lapo Melzi, May 2009
Cultural Consultant and Translator, “One Night Together,” Dir. Eleftheria Astrinaki, 2007. Short film on Kurdish migrants in Greece
Research Assistant, NYU Bobst Library Tamiment Labor Archives, 2005
Assistant Editor, Words without Borders: The On-line Magazine for International Literature, 2003
Editor, Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University, 2000-2002
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Article Referee The Global South European Journal of English Studies Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Grant Referee Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Belgium
Koc University Exchange Student Coordinator, Dept of Media and Visual Arts, 2015- Organizer, Social Science and Humanities Seminar Series, Fall 2014- Organizer, “24/7: Labor, Precarity and Resistance Conference,” April 24, 2015
Bilkent University Organizer, Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas Colloquium, Fall 2012-Spring 2014
Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature Organizer, “Violence, Language and Ethics” Colloquium, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Organizer, Workshop for PhD students on Grant Writing, Fall 2010 Organizer, Workshop for PhD students on Academic Job Search, Spring 2010
Columbia University Organizing Committee Member, Balkan Film Festival, Columbia University, March 2009
New York University Organizing Committee Member, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences International Student Orientation, Fall 2007
New York University, Department of Comparative Literature Organizer, Workshop for PhD students on Grant Writing, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
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THESES ADVISED
Sezen Kayhan, Ph.D in Design, Technology and Society, Koc University. Images and Urban Transformation in Istanbul, in progress.
Zeynep Serinkaya, M.A. in Comparative Studies in History and Society, Koc University. Disability and Gender in Turkish Melodramas (Co-advisor), in progress.
Cigdem Sagir, Ph.D in Sociology, Middle East Technical University. The Specters of Colonialism in the Racialization of European Muslims and Islam in Europe (Outside Jury Member).
Jing Yi Hon, B.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown University. The Cuckold: A Comparative Study of the Role of the Adulteress’ Husband in Modern Literature and Film of Female Adultery (Director).
LANGUAGES
English (near-native speaker); French (advanced); German, Modern Greek (intermediate); Arabic (elementary)
REFERENCES
Professor Kristin Ross, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (212)998-8790
Professor Kenneth Haynes, Department of Comparative Literature and Classics, Brown University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (401)863-3616
Associate Professor Lemi Baruh, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Assistant Dean of CSSH, Koç University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +90(212)-3381133
Visiting Associate Professor Evangelos Calotychos, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (401)863-2818
Professor Anne Donadey, Chair, Department of European Studies, San Diego State University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (619)594-5111
Assistant Professor Mustafa Nakeeb, Director, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas, Bilkent University. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +90(312)290-3132
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