Deniz Gokturk PhD, Associate Professor of German 
   
  Address

5416 Dwinelle
Hall
University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.2001
E-mail: dgokturk@berkeley.edu
   
 

Bio

Deniz Gokturk was born in Istanbul, studied in Konstanz, Norwich(GB), and Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She joined the German Department at Berkeley in fall 2001. Her publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture as well as numerous articles on migration, culture and cinema. As a translator from Turkish into German she has translated novels and co-edited an anthology of contemporary Turkish literature. She is co-editor of The German Cinema Book (2002, published by the British Film Institute, co-edited with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter). She has been collaborating on an interdisciplinary research project on "Axial Writing: Transnational Imagination and Cultural Policy" (funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council "Transnational Communities" Program). She is currently working on a book on "Disguise in Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives on Comedy and Community." She teaches courses on "Transnational Cinemas", "Comedy & Community", "World Cinema/Global Cities", "Nation & Representation".

   
 

Publications

Books


Jedem Wort gehort ein Himmel: Turkei literarisch. Co-edited with Zafer enocak. Berlin: Babel Verlag, 1991. 207 pp.

Kunstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920. Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998. 265 pp.

The German Cinema Book. Co-edited with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter. London: BFI, 2002.

Articles

"Neckar-Western statt Donau-Walzer: Der Geschmack von Freiheit und Abenteuer im fruhen Kino." KINtop: Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des fruhen Films 2 (1993): 117-142.

"Schwarzes Buch in Weißer Festung: Entschwindende Erzahler auf postmodernen Pfaden in der turkischen Literatur." Der Deutschunterricht 5 (1993), Special Issue: "Literatur fremder Kulturen: Turkei": 32-45.

"How Modern Is It? Moving Images of America in Early German Cinema." Hollywood in Europe. Ed. David Ellwood and Rob Kroes. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994: 44-67.

"Atlantis oder Vom Sinken der Kultur: Nobilitierung des fruhen Kinos im Autorenfilm?" Schwarzer Traum und weiße Sklavin. Ed. Manfred Behn. Munchen: text + kritik, 1994: 73-86.

"Muttikulturelle Zungenbrecher: Literaturken aus Deutschlands Nischen." Sirene: Zeitschrift fur Literatur 12/13 (1994): 77-92.

"Metamorphosen des Eigenen in der Begegnung mit dem Fremden: Der Garten entschwundener Katzen von Bilge Karasu." Sirene: Zeitschrift fur Literatur 12/13 (1994): 159-168.

"Wahrnehmung, Vorstellung und Darstellung des Fremden in der Literatur." Diyalog 3 (1994): 41-47.

"Meat & Movies: On Market Globalization and Import Regulation in Imperial Germany." Film and the First World War. Ed. Karel Dibbets and Bert Hogenkamp. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1995: 188-197.

"Moving Images of America in Early German Cinema." A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Ed. Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996: 93-100.

"Verstoße gegen das Reinheitsgebot: Migrantenkino zwischen wehleidiger Pflichtubung und wechselseitigem Grenzverkehr." Multikulturalismus und Popularkultur. Ed. Ruth Mayer and Mark Terkissidis. St. Andra/Wordern: Hannibal Verlag, 1998: 99-114.

"Kennzeichen: weiblich, turkisch, deutsch, Beruf: Sozialarbeiterin, Schriftstellerin, Schauspielerinþ" Frauen Literatur Geschichte - Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Renate Mohrmann and Hiltrud Gnug. Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 1999: 516-532.

"Turkish Women on German Streets. Closure and Exposure in Transnational Cinema." Space in European Cinema. Ed. Myrto Konstantarakos. Exeter/Portland: Intellect, 2000: 64-76.

"Migration und Kino - Subnationale Mitleidskultur oder transnationale Rollenspiele?" Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch, ed. by Carmine Chiellino, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 2000: 329- 347.

"Turkish delight - German fright: Migrant identities in transnational cinemas". Working paper for the ESRC Transnational Communities Research Programme: www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

"Turkish delight - German fright: Migrant identities in transnational cinemas". Mediated Identities, ed. by Deniz Derman, Karen Ross and Nevena Dakovic. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2001: 131-149.

"Turkish delight - German fright: Migrant identities in transnational cinemas". Mapping the Margins: Identity Politics and the Media, ed. by Deniz Derman and Karen Ross, Hampton Press, 2002.

"Turkish Cinema". Chapter for Companion  Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Co-authored with Nezih Erdo¼an, ed. by Oliver Leaman. London: Routledge, 2001: 533-573.

"Strangers in Disguise: Role Play beyond Identity Politics in Anarchic Film Comedy." Iconographies of Power. Poetics and Politics of the Image, ed. by Ulla Haselstein, Berndt Ostendorf, Peter Schneck, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2003.

"Strangers in Disguise: Role Play beyond Identity Politics in Anarchic Film Comedy." (Accepted by New German Critique, in press).

"Anyone at Home? Itinerant Identities in European Cinema of the 1990s." Framework. Special Issue on Middle Eastern Cinema 43.2 (Fall 2002): 201-212.

"Beyond Paternalism: Turkish German Traffic in Cinema". The German Cinema Book, ed. by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Gokturk. London: BFI, 2002: 248-256.

"Spectacles of Multi-Culturalism in the New Berlin," The New History of German Literature (Harvard University Press, in press).