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