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Ela Eylem Gezen University of Massachusetts, Amherst German and Scandinavian Studies 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Email: Egezen@German.Umass.Edu Ela Eylem Gezen University of Massachusetts, Amherst German and Scandinavian Studies 161 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003 Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of German (tenured), Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2018– present Assistant Professor of German (tenure-track), Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2012–2018 EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2005–August 2012 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, PhD 2012 Dissertation: Writing and Sounding the City: Turkish-German Representations of Berlin Freie Universität Berlin, October 1998–July 2005 Major: North American Studies; Minors: Turkic Studies, and French Magisterprüfung (master’s exams) North American Studies and French 2005, Turkic Studies 2004 Zwischenprüfung (intermediate exams) Turkic Studies 2001, North American Studies and French 2000 Indiana University, Bloomington, September 2001–August 2002 Direktaustauschprogramm (exchange fellowship) with the Freie Universität Berlin Department of Central Eurasian Studies, MA Turkish Studies, 2005 PUBLICATIONS Books Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960 (Rochester: Camden House, 2018) Reviewed in The Brecht Yearbook, Feminist German Studies, German Studies Review, German Quarterly, Modern Language Review, Monatshefte, Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature “Cultures in Migration: Turkish Artistic Practices and Cultural-Political Interventions in West Berlin, 1970–1980” [in progress] Ela E. Gezen, January 2021 1 Edited Book Co-Editor, Minority Discourse in Germany Since 1990, Berghahn Books [forthcoming] Edited Journals Guest Editor, Monatshefte, Special Issue on Aras Ören, 112.4 (January 2021) Invited Guest Co-Editor, Jahrbuch Türkisch-deutsche Studien, Special Issue “Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future” (2015) Invited Guest Co-Editor, Colloquia Germanica, Special Issue “Transnational Hi/Stories: Turkish- German Texts and Contexts” 44.4 (2011, published December 2014) Articles and Book Chapters “Weiter Schreiben – Literary Dialogue, Collaboration, and Intervention,” MLA series Options for Teaching, Teaching German Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, eds. David Kim and Bala Venkat Mani [in progress] Invited contribution, “Trümmerhaufen der Vergangenheit, das Mittelmeer und die Namenlosen: Merle Krögers Havarie (2015), Möglichkeitsräume, Formerweiterung und die Herausforderung des Politischen – die literarischen und audio-visuellen Arbeiten von Merle Kröger und Philip Scheffner, ed. Nicole Wolf [forthcoming] “Einleitung: Aras Ören – Zeitzeuge, Chronist und Archivar (West)Berlins,” Monatshefte, Special Issue on Aras Ören, 112.4 (2020): 563–570. Invited contribution, “Integration, Turkish Theater, and Cultural-Political Interventions in West Berlin: Vasıf Öngören’s Kollektiv Theater (1980–1982),” Comparative Drama, Special Issue on Performing Turkishness and Its Others: Theater and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas, (2018, published July 2019): 301–321. Invited contribution, “Türkische und Türkisch-Deutsche Perspektiven in der (Re)Konstruktion von ‚1968’,” undercurrents, Special Issue on 1968 und die (Re)Konstruktion linker Jubiläen, January 2019. “Poetic Empathy, Political Criticism, and Public Mourning: Esther Dischereit’s Klagelieder,” Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook 17 (2018): 313–330. “Brecht and Turkish Political Theater: Sermet Çağan’s Savaş Oyunu (1964),” Back to the Future. Tradition and Innovation in German Studies, edited by Marc Silberman (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), 173–193. “May Ayim und der Blues,” Monatshefte 108.2 (2016): 247–258. Invited contribution, “Aras Ören and the (West) German Literary Left,” Literature Compass Ela E. Gezen, January 2021 2 13.5, Special Issue on Labor Travels, Art Forms, (2016): 324–331. “Brecht on the Turkish Stage: Adaptation, Experimentation, and Theatre Aesthetics in Genco Erkal’s Dostlar Tiyatrosu,” German Life and Letters 69.2, Special Issue on Bertolt Brecht (2016): 269–284. “Convergent Realisms: Aras Ören, Nazım Hikmet, and Bertolt Brecht,” Colloquia Germanica 45.3/4, Special Issue on “Triangular Readings,” (2012, published October 2015): 377–393. “Staging Berlin: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde,” German Studies Review 38.1 (2015): 83–96. “Introduction: Turkish-German Studies – Past, Present, and Future” (with Berna Gueneli), Jahrbuch für Türkisch-deutsche Studien, Special Issue on Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future (2015): 9–13. “Introduction: Transnational Hi/Stories – Turkish-German Texts and Contexts” (with Berna Gueneli) Colloquia Germanica 44.4, Special Issue on Transnational Hi/Stories – Turkish- German Texts and Contexts (2011, published December 2014): 377–381. “Intersections of Music, Politics, and Digital Media: Bandista.” Colloquia Germanica 44.4, Special Issue on Transnational Hi/Stories – Turkish-German Texts and Contexts (2011, published December 2014): 438–449. “Heimisches Berlin: Turkish-German Longing and Belonging.” Jahrbuch für Türkisch-deutsche Studien 2. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2011: 143–164. “The Soundtrack of Migration: Tahsin Incirci and the Türkischer Arbeiterchor West Berlin,” Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur 24.2: (2010). 119–131. Translations Emine Sevgi Özdamar. [from Turkish] “The Untimely One from Üsküdar,” Jahrbuch für Türkisch- deutsche Studien, Special Issue on Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present, and Future (2015): 115–136. Book Reviews Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel, eds. Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Monatshefte 105.4 (2013): 744–746. Aysegül Acevit and Birand Bingül, eds. Was lebst Du? Jung, deutsch, türkisch - Geschichten aus Almanya. Journal der Jugendkulturen 13 (December, 2008): 111. Hilal Sezgin. Typisch Türkin?: Porträt einer neuen Generation. Journal der Jugendkulturen 13 (December, 2008): 111–112. Ela E. Gezen, January 2021 3 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Invited senior fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective,” Project Research Area “Writing Berlin,” at the Freie Universität Berlin, May–July 2020 [postponed to 2021] EUME (Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe) fellowship Forum Transregionale Studien, affiliation: Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, January–July 2016 Finalist, Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2016 CHFA Conference Grant, Spring 2016 Mellon Mutual Mentoring Grant, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship “Cultures in Transnational Perspective,” UCLA, 2012 (declined) Horace H. Rackham Graduate School One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, Fall 2011 Horace H. Rackham Graduate School Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2010–2011 Horace H. Rackham Graduate School Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Winter 2010 Jean Monnet Graduate Fellowship for Issues on European Integration, Center for European Studies, University of Michigan, 2009 Horace H. Rackham Graduate School Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan, Winter 2009 International Institute Individual Fellowship, University of Michigan, Summer 2007 Overseas Exchange Fellowship, Indiana University, 2001–2002 AWARDS AND HONORS Nominee, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2018 Nominee, College Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2018 and Spring 2020 Horace H. Rackham Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, 2008 Ela E. Gezen, January 2021 4 Frank X. Braun Memorial Graduate Student Instructor Award, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Winter 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Major Conferences Co-organizer, Transnational German Studies Workshop, University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2019 Co-organizer, Minorities and Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990: Intersections, Interventions, Interpolations, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Five Colleges, March 2017 Organizer, Medium, Method, and Message in Cultures of the Cold War, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 2014 Co-organizer, Transnational Encounters and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2014 Panel Organization Co-organizer, “Noncitizenship and Artistic Practice,” Seminar, German Studies Association, October 2020 Co-organizer, “Literature and Refuge,” Panel Series, German Studies Association, Portland, October 2019 Co-organizer, “Refuge and Art,” Panel, Council for European Studies Conference, Madrid, June 2019 Co-organizer, “Theorizing Refugees: Pedagogy and Scholarship in German Studies and Beyond,” Roundtable, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2018 Organizer, “Theater and Migration,” Panel, German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 2018 Co-organizer, “Brecht in the Middle East,” sponsored by the International Brecht Society, Modern Language Association, New York City, January 2018 Co-organizer, “(Post)Migrant Theater: Past, Present, and Future,” Seminar, German Studies Association, Atlanta, October 2017 Co-organizer,
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