Melissa Sarikaya
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