Research Interests


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Areas of Specialization

  • Nineteenth- and twentieth- century German literature
  • German ghazal poetry
  • Turkish-German literature
  • Diaspora experience in literature
  • Contemporary Turkish literature (Emphasis: The German minority experience through the native perspective)
  • Sufism and Sufi symbolism
  • Turkish feminisms
  • Feminisms of the Muslim Middle/Near East

Current Research Focus

  • The literary works of female Turkish-German writers
  • Germany's non-Turkish migrant literature
  • Women's role and function in the contemporary Islamist movement in Turkey
  • Non-western feminisms

Current Research Project

German translation of Der weinende Granatapfel by Alev Tekinay, a Turkish-German writer.

Nicht da ist man daheim, wo man seinen Wohnsitz hat, sondern wo man verstanden wird.

Christian Morgenstern


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