Kenan Sharpe
E-posta : kenan.sharpe
sabanciuniv.edu
Eğitim :
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz (2008)
Çalıştığı Kuruluşlar :
2023-2025 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
2022 American Research Institute in Turkey, Postdoctoral Research Grant, Istanbul
2018 Max Weber Stiftung PhD Research Scholarship, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul
Araştırma Alanları :
kültürel çalışmalar; dünya edebiyatı; popüler müzik; toplumsal hareketler; film ve televizyon; modernizm; Akdeniz Çalışmaları; feminist teori; altkültürlerÜyelikler :
Ottoman and Turkish Language Association; American Comparative Literature Association; Middle Eastern Studies AssociationJournal Articles
2025 - “When ‘Ottoman’ Was an Insult: Turkish Modernist Poets and their Critics,” Modernism/modernity, Vol. 9, Cycle 4.
2021 - “Poetry, Rock 'n' Roll, and Cinema in Turkey's 1960s,” Turkish Historical Review Vol. 12, No. 2-3.
2021 - “Combined and Uneven Modernism: Turkey’s İkinci Yeni Poets,” Dibur Literary Journal No. 10.
2020 - “Hellenism without Greeks: The Use and Abuse of Classical Antiquity in the Literature of Nev-Yunânîlik and Mavi Anadolu,” Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vol. 5, No. 1 (spring 2018).
Book Chapters
In press - “Brand New: Turkish Poetry and Aesthetic Autonomy on the Modernist Periphery.” Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernism, edited by Levi Thompson, Cambridge University Press.
2025 - “‘We, Too, Are Oriental’: Nâzım Hikmet’s Futurist and Anti-Colonial Modernity.” Routledge Handbook of Turkish Literature, edited by Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal, Taylor & Francis.
2021 - “The Internationalist Left and World Literature: The Case of Nâzım Hikmet in Greece.” Turkish Literature as World Literature, edited by Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, Bloomsbury.
2020 - “Radical Moderns/Poetry International: Nâzım Hikmet, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, Yannis Ritsos, Muriel Rukeyser.” Back to the ‘30s? Crisis, Repetition and Transition in the 20th and 21st Centuries, edited by Susan Falls et al. Palgrave MacMillan.
2020 - “Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Şahsiyet and Happy Valley.” Female Agency and Subjectivity in Film and Television, edited by Feride Çiçekoğlu et al. Palgrave MacMillan.
2020 - “A Mediterranean 60s: Cultural Politics in Turkey, Greece, and Beyond.” Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, edited by Martin Klimke et al. Taylor & Francis.
Book Reviews
2025 - “Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser. Dolcerocca Özen Nergis (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).” International Journal of Middle East Studies.
2021 - “Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey (2018) by Erik Mortenson.” Contemporary Literature Studies, vol. 58, no. 1.
2021 - “Jakobenlerden Devrimcilere: Türkiye'de Ögrenci Hareketlerinin Dinamikleri (1960 - 1971) (2019) by Emin Alper.” Turkish Historical Review Vol. 12, No. 2-3 (winter 2021).