Alkim Kutlu, M.A.
Research Associate
Floor/Room: 01.113
Wissenschaftlicher Lebenslauf
Seit 10/2021: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
2020-2021: Lehrbeauftragte der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
Seit 2020: Promotionstudium. Dissertationsprojekt: “Masculinity, Performance, and Cultural Politics in Food and Travel Shows”.
2017-2019: Master of Arts in English (focus on Cultural Studies), minor in Transcultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Thema der Abschlussarbeit: "An Inquiry into 'The Literary Cookbook’”.
2015-2016: Studentische Hilfskraft, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Bogazici University, Turkey.
2015: Erasmus-Studienaufenthalt an der Universiteit Gent, Belgien.
2012-2017: Bachelor in Arts in English Language and Literature w/ Copywriting Certificate, Bogazici University, Türkei. Thema der Abschlussarbeit: “"Feeding the Immigrant: Food as a Cultural Symbol in East Asian American Drama”.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Popular culture; Cultural Studies; Film and television studies; Gender and queer studies; Phenomenology and affect; Advertising; Modern and contemporary American drama; North American Studies.
Aufsätze
Book review: Tasha Oren, Food TV, Routledge, 2022. for Food, Culture & Society (forthcoming in 2022)
Peer-reviewed article: “Serving Up the American South: The Intersectional Politics of BBQ in Food Media”, ed. Alice Beja, “The Politics of Food in the US/Politique de l'alimentation aux Etats-Unis” Special Issue, Politique américaine (forthcoming in 2022). [co-author].
Peer-reviewed article: "Queering the competitive cooking show: performance on/of Netflix's Nailed It!", Whatever: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies 4, June 2021.
Vorträge
Presentation: “Cooking from the Margins: Community and Intersectional Food Futures in Broken Bread (2019-)”, Discourses on the future of food, The 2nd Biennial Conference on Food & Communication, Online, 15-17 September 2021.
Presentation: “Remembering the American Dream: Cultural Diversity and Food Sovereignty in Food Media”, Movement and Mobility in America, 40th International American Studies Conference of the American Studies Association of Turkey, Online, 28-29 June 2021.
Presentation: "Edible Resilience: Ambiguous Depictions of Black and Indigenous Foodways in Food Documentaries", Just Food: because it is never just food, 2021 Joint Annual Conference of ASFS, AFHVS, CAFS, SAFN, hosted virtually by The Culinary Institute of America & New York University, 9-15 June 2021.
Presentation: "Food, Remembrance and Empowerment in Cookbooks", 2nd Heidelberg Student Graduate Conference in English Studies, hosted by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 7-8 June 2019.
Chair: "Food and Identity in Literature and Culture" Panel, 2nd Heidelberg Student Graduate Conference in English Studies, hosted by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 7-8 June 2019.
Presentation: "Feeding the Immigrant: Food as a Cultural Symbol in East Asian American Drama", 1st Heidelberg Student Graduate Conference in English Studies, hosted by Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 29-30 May 2018.
Sonstige Aktivitäten
Teilnahme: Communicating Science International Summer School, Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, 2-6 August 2021.
Teilnahme: Summer School Program: The Urban Food Experience: Exploring Food and the City, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 10-29 July 2016.
Mitgliedschaft
Graduate Association for Food Studies (GAFS)
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)