About
PhD Student at a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne Education
PhD: Universität zu Köln, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (April 2019 – )
MA: Boğaziçi University, Turkish Language and Literature (2014-2018)
Thesis Title: Traumatic Poetics: Witnessing and Its Horizons in Leylâ Erbil’s Last Texts
BA: Boğaziçi University, Turkish Language and Literature (2009-2014)
Publications
Book Chapters
Çalışkan U. “Stone, Memory and Body in Leylâ Erbil’s Üç Başlı Ejderha,” in Kültürel Bellek, Hacettepe University Press. (upcoming)
Peer Reviewed Articles
Çalışkan U. and Günay-Erkol Ç. “Expectations From Memory: Witnessing Of Criticism to Military Putsches in the Turkish Novel,” Monograf Journal, ISSN: 2148-3442, 2016/5, p.10-35. (In Turkish)
Çalışkan U. and Günay-Erkol Ç. “Devising the Community by Novels from the 1960s to February 28: Popular Manifestations of Political Islam,” Moment Journal, ISSN: 2148-970X., v. 3, n. 1, 2016, p.21-47. (In Turkish)
Conference Proceedings
Çalışkan U. and Günay-Erkol Ç., “Crisis of Islamic Masculinities in 1968: Literature and Masquerade” International Conference on Knowledge and Politics in Gender and Women Studies, Middle East Technical University, p. 233-242.
Articles
Çalışkan U. and Fırat M.E., “Hic Rhodus, Hic Saltus: Occupy Starbucks!,” Sosyalist Demokrasi İçin Yeniyol 40, Winter 2012, p. 110-117. (In Turkish)
Projects
Researcher (January 2018- August 2018)
Bogazici University Scientific Research Project Funds, Bogazici University Nâzım Hikmet Research Center for Culture and the Arts, Bogazici Archives
“Literary World of Leylâ Erbil in the Light of Her Personal Archive” executed by Olcay Akyıldız.
Researcher (February 2015 – April 2017)
Ozyegin University and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey)
“Witnessing of Literature to Turkey’s Democratization History: Military Coups and Novels” executed by Çimen Günay-Erkol under Ozyegin University and financially supported by TÜBİTAK.
