Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan
Program in Comparative Literature
M.A. 1999 University of Michigan (Near Eastern Studies)
M.A. 1996 Hacettepe University (French Literature)
B.A. 1993 Bogazici (Bosphorus) University (Foreign Language Education)
Greek-Turkish political and cultural interactions
1923 Greek-Turkish compulsory population exchange
Cultural Resistance and
Geographic Kinship in Framing Narratives of the Greek Turkish Population
Exchange. Politics of Public Memory in Turkey. Ed. Esra Özyürek.
Syracuse University Press, forthcoming.
Memleket, Yurt ve Coğrafi Kardeşlik: Arşivci Kültür
Politikalari (Homeland, Motherland and Geographic Kinship: Archivist Cultural
Politics). Türkiyede Toplumsal Tarih ve Bellek (Social History and
Memory in Turkey). Ed. Esra Özyürek. İletişim, 2001.
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Program in Comparative Literature
University of Michigan
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"Fragments of Homeland, Genres of Return: Geopoetics of Rupture, Repertoire, and Collective Memory in 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange
My dissertation examines the role of cultural products in bringing tragedies such as forced migration to the attention of the public. How are these works produced? Circulated? Received? I argue that cultural products contributed to the meaning-making process of this event (processing repertoires) at both individual and collective levels. In order to study how collective memory repertoires are processed, I propose an interdisciplinary cultural analysis of what I call the geopoetics of rupture.