Gulsin Ciftci
Reading Reading: Affect and American Literature in Twenty-first Century
Further information on Gulsin Ciftci can be found on the page of English Department at the University of Münster.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl
Research Interests
- Theories of Reading
- Literary Theory and Critique
- Affect and Public Feeling
- Social Media Literacy and Book Industry
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
Education
since 10/2021 PhD student, German Studies, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster 10/2017 - 05/2020 Master of Arts, North American Studies, Georg-August University of Göttingen 09/2013 - 06/2017 Bachelor of Arts, English Languages and Literatures, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University 09/2023 - 10/2023 Visiting Scholar, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Archive, Yale University, USA 01/2023 - 04/2023 Visiting Scholar, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Archive, Yale University, USA Projects and Professional Experience
Professional Experience
since 05/2021 Research Associate, Chair Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl, University of Münster 04/2018 - 08/2020 Adjunct Lecturer, Chair Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff, University of Göttingen 09/2018 - 05/2020 Student Assistant, Göttingen Center for Gender Studies and Institute for Foundations of Law 04/2018 - 09/2019 Student Assistant, Göttingen International, Georg-August University Göttingen 09/2016 - 06/2017 Student Assistant, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Teaching Experience
WiSe 2023/24 Bachelor Lecture, "Basic Course: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2023 Masterseminar, "Beyond Words: American Experimental Poetry", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2023 Bachelorseminar, "Capitalism and American Literature", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2023 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Literary Studies", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2022 Bachelorseminar, "Love and Other Affects", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2022 Bachelorseminar, "The New Poetics: Introduction to 21st-Century American Poetry", English Department, University of Münster WiSe 2021/22 Bachelorseminar, "Affective Aesthetics in Poetry Across Time and Media", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2021 Bachelorseminar, "Wounds and Words: Trauma in American Literature", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2021 Bachelorseminar,"Gender, Sexuality, & Queer Desires in 21st C. American Lit.", English Department, University of Münster SoSe 2021 Masterseminar, "'Narrating the Unnarratable' – Sexual Trauma in British Literature", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2021 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Cultural Studies", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2021 Language course, "English for Agriculture Students", ZESS, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2020/21 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Cultural Studies", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2020/21 Language course, "English for Agriculture Students", ZESS, Georg-August University of Göttingen 04/2018 - 03/2021 Lecturer, Chair of Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2019/20 Masterseminar, "Academic Skills", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2019/20 Bachelorseminar "Introduction to Cultural Studies", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2019/20 Mastertutorial, "Literary and Cultural Theories in Use", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2019 Masterseminar, "Academic Skills", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2019 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Cultural Studies", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2019 Mastertutorial, "Using Cultural Theories", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2018/19 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Cultural Studies", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen WiSe 2018/19 Mastertutorial, "Using Cultural Theories", English Department, Georg-August University of Göttingen SoSe 2018 Bachelorseminar, "Introduction to Cultural Studies" (with Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff), English Department, Georg-August University Göttingen 02/2017 - 06/2017 English as a foreign language, Canakkale Anadolu Lisesi 01/2017 - 04/2017 Turkish as a foreign language, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Conference Organisation11/2023 Organization, G.L.A.M. English Department, University of Munich, [together with Silvia Schultermandl and Leopold Lippert] 06/2023 Organization, Juneteenth Dialogues, English Department, University of Münster, [together with Silvia Schultermandl] 11/2023 Organization, Masterclass with Prof. Rita Felski, "Literary Theory Today: Critique, Postcritique, and Attachments", English Seminar and Institute of German Studies, University of Münster, [together with Nursan Celik] 06/2023 Organization, Workshop, "Current Research in Literary & Cultural Studies: Dissertation Workshop", English Department, University of Münster, [together with Rita Mariccocchi] 06/2023 Organization, Workshop with Prof. Tim Bewes, "The Novel in a Postfictional Age", English Seminar and GSPoL, University of Münster 05/2023 Organization, Workshop with Eugenie Brinkema, "The American Academic Job Market", English Seminar University of Münster, [together with SmartNetwork and GSPoL] 04/2023 Organization, Masterclass with Prof. Jessica Pressman, "Bookishness", English Seminar, University of Münster [together with Corinna Norrick-Rühl] 02/2023 Organization, Workshop with Prof. Eugenie Brinkema, "Affects, Forms, and Formalisms", English Department, University of Münster 12/2022 Organisation, Workshop mit Prof. Irina Dumitrescu, "Schreiben für ein allgemeines Publikum", Graduiertenschule Praktiken der Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Münster 06/2022 Organization, Workshop with Sylee Gore, "Poetry Writing Workshop", English Department, University of Münster 02/2022 Organization, workshop with Prof. Merve Emre, "From Ideas to Books", English Department, University of Münster 03/2019 Chair, Conference, "Contested Kinship: Towards a Redefinition of Human Relations", Georg-August University Göttingen [together with Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff, Prof. Dr. Inge Hanewinkel, Dr. Nikolaus Linder] 07/2018 Assistant, Conference, "Glocal Places of Literature: Production - Distribution - Reception", English Seminar, Georg-August University Göttingen [org. by Marleen Knipping and Julia Kroll]
Other Projects and Activities09/2018 - 05/2020 Project Member, „Verwandschaft neu Denken“, University of Göttingen [together with Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff, Prof. Dr. Inge Hanewinkel, Dr. Nikolaus Linder] 07/2018 Project Assistant, Conference, „Glocal Places of Literature: Production – Distribution – Reception“, English Department, University of Göttingen [org. by Marleen Knipping and Julia Kroll] Publications and Conference Papers
Publications
- Silvia Schultermandl, Jennifer Reimer, and Gulsin Ciftci (Eds.): 2022. Vulnerabilities. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies. [forthcoming]
- Ciftci, Gulsin. "'Vulnerable as a small pink mouse': Vulnerability, Affects, and Narrative Worldmaking in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life", in Vulnerabilities (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2022): forthcoming.
- Ciftci, Gulsin, Mouton, D. D. and S. Schultermandl. "Writing Black Women's Mythology: A Conversation With Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton". New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 74, Sept. 2023, https://doi.org/10.18422/74-1400.
- Ciftci, Gulsin. "The Affects of Reading". Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Apr. 2023, pp. 10-29, doi:10.5283/copas.366.
- Ciftci, Gulsin. "Affect", Key Concepts in Enviromental Humanities, edited by Basak Agin, Kapadokya University Press, August 2023. (in Turkish)
- Ciftci, Gulsin. "Assemblage", Key Concepts in Enviromental Humanities, edited by Basak Agin, Kapadokya University Press, August 2023. (in Turkish)
- "Uncovering Female Desire." Litlog: Göttinger eMagazin für Literatur-Kultur-Wissenschaft, 2 July 2020, litlog.de/uncovering-female-desire/.
Conference Papers
09/2023 "Fissures. Breaks. Ruptures. Interstices. Or, How to Read a Patchwork?", Conference "ASAP/14: The Arts of Fugitivity", Seattle, WA, USA 06/2023 "Reading Reading: Affect and American Literature in 21st Century", Conference "Current Research in Literary & Cultural Studies: Dissertation Workshop", Münster, Germany 06/2023 "Ostranenie in Digital Poetry: Revisiting Viktor Šklovskijs notion of defamiliarization", Conference "Poetry. Experience. Attention", Oslo, Norway [together with Nursan Celik] 06/2023 "Haunting Forms: Reading Grief in Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of", Conference "Poetry. Experience. Attention", Oslo, Norway 03/2023 "Reading Affects as Reading Forms", Conference "International Conference on Narrative", Dallas, TX, USA 02/2023 "Reading (through) Affects in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation", Conference "50th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture", University of Louisville 01/2023 "Unpack Your Feelings; Or, How Close is Too Close Reading?", Conference "Hotspots in Literary and Cultural Studies, Book Studies, and Linguistics", University of Münster 07/2022 "Narratives, Affects, and Forms", Tagung "The Uses of Form: Theory – Methodology – Pedagogy", online 01/2022 "Poetry of the Digital Age: #instapoetry", Invited Talk, Dr. Mahshid Mayar’s seminar; American Studies at Bielefeld University 10/2021 "'I'm here to learn how to not be raped': Gender, Sexual Violence, and Trauma in I May Destroy You", Conference "Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts", Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkey 09/2021 "Affective Turn in Sexual Trauma Narratives", Postgraduierten-Symposium "Following the Affective Turn", University of Brighton, Brighton, UK 07/2021 "Vulnerable as a small pink mouse", Forschungskolloquium "Trauma, Vulnerability, and Intimacies", University of Göttingen 07/2020 "Towards a Poetics of Sexual Trauma Narratives", Conference, Harvard Institute for World Literature, Harvard University 06/2020 "Pop-Feminist Literature and Social Media Rhetorics in Instapoetics", Conference, IMLR Graduate Forum, University of London 03/2020 "Translocal Poetics of Identity in #instapoetry", Conference "NeMLA", Boston, MA 09/2019 "Cosmopolis: Exploring Global Hegemonic Masculinity in North-American Literature", Internationales Symposium "Men and Masculinities", Istanbul, Turkey 05/2019 "#instapoetry: Feminist Rhetoric and Poetry in Digital Age", Gender Lab Lecture Series, Göttingen, Germany 05/2019 "Reading and Writing Poetry in the Digital Age", Conference, Harvard Institute for World Literature, Harvard University 09/2019 "Cosmopolis: Exploring Global Hegemonic Masculinity in North American Literature", Conference "Masculinities: Challenges and Possibilities in Troubling Times", Istanbul, Turkey Scholarships and Awards
Scholarships
10/2023 Santander-Mobility-Fund, University of Muenster 09/2023—10/2023 Postgraduate Travel Grant, awarded by the European Association for American Studies for a research trip to Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 02/2023—04/2023 Research Grant - English Department Fund, University of Münster, Awarded for a research trip to Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 02/2023 Gleichstellungsbüro Conference Participation Fund, University of Münster 03/2023 Santander-Mobility-Fund, University of Muenster 12/2022 Internationalization Fund, Workshop with Timothy Bewes, University of Münster 02/2021—06/2021 Olaf-Brennhovd-Stiftung Dissertation start-up grant 09/2019 Travel Grant for "2nd International Men and Masculinities Symposium" by University of Göttingen / Seminar für Englische Philologie 06/2019—08/2019 DAAD – PROMOS Grant awarded for summer school at Harvard University 10/2015—10/2016 Erasmus Grant for a year-long study at Osnabrück University
Awards10/ 2023 Amy Elias Award, awarded by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 07/2017 Top ranking student award in Western Languages and Literatures, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University 07/2017 Highest Honors in English Language and Literature, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Committe Work, Memberships and Civic Engagement
Committe Work
2023 - present Speaker of the European Association for American Studies 2023 - present Member of the Executive Board, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster 2022 - present Member of Admissions Committee, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster 2020 - 2021 Member of the Committee Against Racism and Other Forms of Discrimination, English Department, University of Münster 11/2020 - 10/2021 Member of Faculty Council (Fakültätsrat), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Göttingen 11/2020 - 10/2021 Doctoral Students Representative (Promovierendenvertretung), Faculty of Philosophy (Elected, two terms [11 July 2020; June 2, 2021]); University of Göttingen 03/2018 - 10/2021 Co-founder of Working Group Against Discrimination and Harassment (ADSEP), English Department, University of Göttingen Memberships
- EAAS: European Association of American Studies
- DGfA: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien e.V.
- ASAP: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
- ISSN: International Society for the Study of the Narrative
- International Society of Boredom studies
- Transatlantisches Netzwerk WWU
- Forschungsnetzwerk Gender am Mittelbau der WWU
- EASCLE: European Association for the Study of Culture, Literature, and Environment
Civic Engagement
2021 - present Founder of Poetry Parlor, University of Göttingen 11/2020 - 10/2021 Founder of Peer-to-Peer Academic Support, University of Göttingen 04/2018 - 10/2018 Mentor in Peer-to-Peer Mentoring, University of Göttingen