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Melissa Sarikaya

Melissa Sarikaya

Department of English and American Studies
Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)

Room: Room C3A4
Bismarckstr. 1
91054 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-29364
  • Email: melissa.sarikaya@fau.de

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Office Hours:
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Research Interests
Gender Studies, Intersectionality, Media Studies, Poetry, Genre Theory, Victorianism, Modernism & Postmodernism, Avantgarde, Décadence, Fin de Siècle, Aestheticism, Ekphrasis, Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Fiction, Pop-Culture

 

Teaching

  • Basic Module Literature (Grund- und Aufbauseminar)
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Excess, Drugs, and Rock’n’Roll
  • Ekphrasis
  • Live Poetry!: Translation, Transmission, Transgression
  • Fin de Siècle Poetry

 

Member and Functions

  • Speaker of the non-professorial teaching staff of English and American Studies
  • British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS)
  • Feminist Reading Circle
  • German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
  • German Anglicist Association
  • Interdisciplinary Centre Gender Difference Diversity (IZGDD)
  • Speaker of the early career scholars section (Forschungskolloquium) of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender, Difference, and Diversity (IZGDD)
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture (IZG)

 

Conferences and Papers

Beauty Ideals; How to Be a Successful #instapoet; Ekphrasis in Patience Agbabi’s „About Face“

 

Latest Projects

  • Contribution to a volume on Instapoetry (coming soon, published in Bloomsbury)
  • Co-Editor of the volume FAU Studien Gender Differenz Diversität (2022)
  • Poetry Reading by Hollie McNish exclusively for FAU members (2021)

 

Short CV
• Since 2019: lecturer and doctoral researcher at FAU, Chair of English Literature

  •  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)
  • since 2015: Invigilator for Cambridge English Certificate
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