Melissa Sarikaya
Research Interests
Gender Studies, Victorianism, Aestheticism, Decadence, Modernism, Poetry, Media Studies, Ekphrasis, Digital Poetry
Teaching
- Basic Module Literature (Grund- und Aufbauseminar)
- The Long Nineteenth Century
- Victorian Poetry
- Marginality in the Victorian Era
- Fin de Siècle Poetry
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Excess, Drugs, and Rock’n’Roll
- Ekphrasis
- Live Poetry!: Translation, Transmission, Transgression
Publications
- Melissa Sarikaya: “How to Be a Successful #instapoet: Defying Jean Baudrillard’s Hyperreal with Marketing Strategies Based on Hollie McNish.” Reading #instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram, ed. by James Mackay & JuEunhae Knox. Bloomsbury, 2024.
- Melissa Sarikaya: “Blue Sea – Wilt welcome me?: Navigating Longing in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Romanticismi, La Rivista del C.R.I.E.R. (2023), pp.127-144.
- Distinktion, Ausgrenzung und Mobilität – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf soziale Ungleichheit, edited by Victoria Gutsche, Ronja Holzinger, Larissa Pfaller, Melissa Sarikaya, FAU University Press, 2022.
Conferences and Papers (Selection)
- BritCult: In-between Islands: Intra-Relations between Britain and Ireland, Kiel 2023
- ESSE Doctoral Symposium, Mailand 2023
- RSVP Currents in the Periodical Press, Caen 2023
- Vortrag zur Darstellung der Weiblichkeit und das Frauenbild in James Bond, Kino Casablanca, Nürnberg, 2023
- DACH Victorianists: Late-Victorian Decadence as Mode, Theory & Attitude, online 2023
- Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism, Oxford 2023
- The Inklings, Magdeburg 2023
- Victorian Reproductions, Mainz 2023
- RSVP: Margin/Limit/Periphery/Edge, online 2022
- Reading Instapoetry, online 2020
Member and Functions
- Co-founder of the network for modernism, aestheticism, decadence studies (MADS)
- Speaker of the early career researchers section of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender, Difference, and Diversity (IZGDD)
- German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
- German Anglicist Association
- British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS)
- British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
- Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)
- DACH Victorianists
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture (IZG)
- Irish Women’s Writing (1880-1920) Network (IWWN)
- Feminist Reading Circle
Short CV
- Since 2019: lecturer and doctoral researcher at FAU, Chair of English Literary Studies
- 2020: first state exam (Staatsexamen) in Philosophy
- 2019: first state exams (Staatsexamen) in English and German
- 2016-2018: Fraunhofer Institutes AISEC and IIS
- 2015-2016: Study Abroad at University of Kent (UKC)
- 2015-2020: Invigilator for Cambridge English Certificate