Alkim Kutlu, M.A.

• Popular culture
• Cultural Studies
• Film and Television studies
• Gender and Queer studies
• Phenomenology and Affect
• Advertising
• Modern and contemporary American Drama
• North American Studies

• 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 of 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”]

Aufsätze

• Book Review: Tasha Oren, "Food TV", Routledge, 2022. for Food, Culture & Society
• 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. [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

• 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.

• Graduate Association for Food Studies (GAFS)
• Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
• European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)

• 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.