CURRICULUM VITAE (August 2013) Dilek Kaya, Ph.D. Department of Radio, Cinema and Television Faculty of Communication Yaşar University Bornova, İzmir LANGUAGES Turkish (native), English (fluent), French (fluent). EDUCATION 2002-2003 M.A., Brock University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film. Thesis title: The Midnight Express Phenomenon: A Historical Materialist Approach to the Reception of the Film Midnight Express (supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jeannette Sloniowski). 1999-2002 Ph.D., İ.D. Bilkent University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Graphic Design. Dissertation title: Yeşilçam in Letters: A "Cinema Event" in 1960s Turkey from the Perspective of an Audience Discourse (supervised by Prof. Dr. Bülent Özgüç and Assist. Prof. Dr. Halil Nalçaoğlu). 1997-1999 M.F.A., İ.D. Bilkent University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Graphic Design. Thesis title: F is For Film, G is For Greenaway: The Cinematic Representation in the Films of Peter Greenaway (supervised by Assist. Prof. Dr. Nezih Erdoğan). 1993-1997 B.A., İ.D. Bilkent University, Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Advanced Track Program. 1992-1993 İ.D. Bilkent University, School of English Language, English Language Preparatory Program. 1984-1992 Galatasaray High School, Istanbul. 1 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Academic Positions 2013- Associate Professor; Department of Radio, Cinema and Television, Faculty of Communication, Yaşar University. 2005-2013 Assistant Professor; Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2003-2005 Full-time Instructor; Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2002-2003 Research Assistant; Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brock University. 2001-2002 Part-time Instructor; Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, İ.D. Bilkent University. 1997-2002 Research and Teaching Assistant; Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, İ.D. Bilkent University. Courses Taught COMD 212 Principles of Visual Communication Design (Undergraduate) COMD 221 Visual Communication and Perception (Undergraduate) COMD 310 Screenwriting (Undergraduate) COMD 511 Theory and Method in Media, Visual and Cultural Studies (Graduate) COMD 515 Media Reception (Graduate) FA 171/172 Introduction to Art and Culture I/II (Undergraduate) GRA 215/216 Animation and Film/TV Graphics I/II (Undergraduate) GRA 341 History of Graphic Art (Undergraduate) GRA 344 Psychology of Advertising (Undergraduate) GRA 351/352 Design: Image and Text I/II (Undergraduate) GRA 520 Critical Approaches to Popular Culture (Graduate) Teaching Interests Communication, film, and media studies, visual culture, cultural and critical theory, audience and reception studies, critical history of art, history of visual communication and design, popular culture. Graduate Supervision Pelin Aytemiz, “Representing Absence and the Absent One: Remembering and Longing Through Mourning Photography” (Ph.D., completed, August 2013). Begüm Bilgenoğlu, “Half Asleep, Winded Losses: A Visual Survey on Photography, Memory and Meaning” (M.F.A., completed, May 2012). 2 Nadide Gizem Akgülgil, “Animator’s Hell: An Animation Inspired by Sartre’s Other” (M.F.A., completed, May 2012). Zeynep Koçer, “Masculinities in Yılmaz Güney’s Star Image in the 1960s and 1970s” (Ph.D., completed, January 2012). Mustafa Kemal İz, “Conceptual Artwork as Type: An Account of Dematerialization in Conceptual Art” (M.F.A., completed, May 2011). Kalben Sağdıç, “Keepsake: Meanings, Practices and Tactics of Making and Preserving Memory” (M.F.A., completed, December 2010). Baran Danış, “Apocalypse Now: Pro-War Sentiments in an Anti-War Film” (M.A., completed, May 2007). RESEARCH INTERESTS Film studies, media studies, cultural studies, audience and reception, stardom and fandom, Turkish cinema, film censorship, identity politics, and popular culture. PUBLICATIONS Refereed Articles (International) (with Zeynep Koçer). “A Different Story of Secularism: The Censorship of Religion in Turkish Films of the Sixties and Early Seventies.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 15.1 (2012): 70-88. (SSCI) (with Kevin Smets and Roel Vande Winkel). “Beware of the Wolves! The Turkish versus the European Reception of the Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006).” Film International 9.3 (2011): 19-34. “Between Tradition and Modernity: Yeşilçam Melodrama, its Stars, and their Audiences.” Middle Eastern Studies 46.3 (2010): 417-31. (SSCI) "The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos (San Stefano): Between Defeat and Revenge, Remembering and Forgetting." Middle Eastern Studies 43.1 (2007): 75-86. (SSCI) "The Midnight Express (1978) Phenomenon and the Image of Turkey." Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television 25.3 (August 2005): 475-96. (AHCI) "Un Rapid Regard Sur L'Histoire du Cinéma Turc." Les Cahiers Luxembourgeois 4-5 (2004): 113-21. (with Nezih Erdoğan). "Institutional Intervention in the Distribution and Exhibition of Hollywood Films in Turkey." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 22.1 (2002): 47-59. (AHCI) 3 Book Reviews (International) [Book review.] “Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World” by Lina Khatib. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television 28.1 (2008): 125-27. (AHCI) [Book review]. “Radyonun Sihirli Kapısı: Garbiyatçılık ve Politik Öznellik” by Meltem Ahıska. Istanbul: Metis, 2005. Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television 27.1 (2007): 129-32. (AHCI) Books (International) The Midnight Express Phenomenon: The International Reception of the Film Midnight Express, 155 pp., Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2010 (from the 2005 edition). The Midnight Express Phenomenon: The International Reception of the Film Midnight Express. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2005. Book Chapters (International) “Film Censorship During the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema.” Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World. Ed. Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 131-146. “The Cola Turka Controversy: Consuming Cola as a Turkish Muslim.” Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption. Ed. Johanna Pink. New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 105-28. Encyclopedia and Bibliography Entries (International) "Turkey." Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2006. 263-66. "The Arts: Film." World Bibliographical Series: Turkey. Vol. 27. Comp. Çiğdem Balım. Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado: Clio Press, 1999. 291-94. Publications in National Journals and Edited Volumes: "Türk Sineması Ne? Türk Seyircisi Kim?” (What is Turkish Cinema? Who is Turkish Spectator?) Türk Sinemasında Yeni Arayışlar. Ed. Abdurrahman Şen. Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, 2010. 421-34. (Reprint) “Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesi: Kim Yıktı? Kim Çekti ? Kim ‘Yazdı’” (The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos: Who Destroyed It? Who Filmed It? Who 'Wrote' It?). Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 6. Ed. Deniz Bayrakdar. İstanbul: Bağlam, 2007. 17-29. "Puro Lüks'e Yeşilçam Hollywood'a Karşı (Puro Versus Lüks; Yeşilçam Versus Hollywood)" Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 3. Ed. Deniz Bayrakdar. İstanbul: Bağlam, 2003. 89-94. 4 "Türk Sineması Ne? Türk Seyircisi Kim? (What is Turkish Cinema? Who is Turkish Spectator?)" Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 2. Ed. Deniz Derman. İstanbul: Bağlam, 2001. 201-17. "Yerli Melodramlar ve Ruhsal Boşalım (Turkish Melodramas and Emotional Purification)." Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler 1. Ed. Deniz Derman. İstanbul: Bağlam, 2001. 111-20. "Bülent Oran: Ayaklı Yeşilçam Tarihi (Bülent Oran: The Living History of Yeşilçam)." Altyazı 2 (2001): 98-101. "Puro Lüks'e, Yeşilçam Hollywood'a Karşı: Sabunlardan Filmlere Türkiye'nin Amerikanizasyon Döneminden Bir Kesit (Puro Versus Lüks; Yeşilçam Versus Hollywood: An Overview of the Period of Americanization in Turkey From Soaps to Films)." Geceyarısı Sineması 10 (2001): 46-49. "Hançerin Ucunda Bir Yürek: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (A Heart on the Edge of a Dagger: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore)." Geceyarısı Sineması 7 (2000): 78-80. "Yeşilçam'dan İki Ses: Mine Soley ve Selda Alkor ile Söyleşi (Two Voices from Yeşilçam: Interview with Film Stars, Mine Soley and Selda Alkor)." Geceyarısı Sineması 6 (2000): 44-48. "Kelebekler ve Topluiğneler: Peter Greenaway Filmlerinde Şiddet (Butterflies and Pins: The Representation of Violence in the Films of Peter Greenaway)." Geceyarısı Sineması 2 (1998): 38-44. "Yerli Melodramlar ve Ruhsal Boşalım (Turkish Melodramas and Emotional Purification)." 25.Kare 25 (1998): 60-68. CONFERENCES International Refereed Conference Presentations “Poison on Candy: Children and Cinema in the Early Turkish Republican Discourse.” XXVth IAMHIST Conference: Childhood and the Media, 17-20 July, IAMHIST (The International Association for Media and History), Leicester. “The Beginnings of Islamic Cinema in Turkey: Using the Mainstream to Convey the Marginal.” Media Politics - Political Media, 20-22 June 2013, NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), Prague. “Movie Stardom during the Golden Age of Turkish Cinema: The Case of Türkan Şoray (the Sultana).” 2nd Global Conference: Celebrity: Exploring Critical Issues, 10-12 March 2013, Interdisciplinary.net, Lisbon. “Film Censorship in Turkey from the 1930s to early 1970s.” SCMS (Society of Cinema and Media Studies) 2012 Conference, 21-25 March 2012, SCMS, Boston. 5 “Between Secularism and Islam: The Censorship of Religious Elements in Turkish Films of the 1960s.” Religion and the State in Islam and the West, 23-26 April 2009, Roger Williams University, Bristol. “The Cola Turka Controversy: Consuming Cola as a Turkish Muslim.” Contemporary Muslim Consumer Cultures – an Emerging Field of Study, 24-27 September 2008, Free University of Berlin, Berlin. “Bringing Stars Home: Yeşilçam Cinema from the Perspective of Audience Letters.” The Glow in their Eyes: Global perspectives on film cultures, film exhibition and cinemagoing, 14-16 December, 2007, Ghent University, Ghent. “The Midnight Express Controversy: The International Reception of the Film Midnight Express.” Film and Media Conference, Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context, 16-18 June, 2006, Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Istanbul. "The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos: Between Defeat and Revenge, Remembering and Forgetting." Defeat and Memory, 7-9 September, 2005, University of Edinburgh, Center for Second World War Studies, Edinburgh. "Breaking Religion, Saluting God: Representation of Faith in Breaking the Waves." Encounters and Intersections: Religion Meets Popular Culture, 10 April 2003, Brock University, Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film, St. Catharines. "From the War of Soaps to the War of Films: An Intertextual Look at the Image of Hollywood in 1950s Turkey." FSAC (Film Studies Association of Canada) Graduate Student Colloquium, 21-23 March 2003, Brock University, Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film, St. Catharines. "Reflections on the Americanization of Turkey: Hafta (The Week) Advertisements of the 1950s." Globalization and Popular Culture: Production, Consumption, Identity, 19-21 October 2001, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. National Refereed Conference Presentations “Kanun Namına Filmine Metinlerarası Bir Yaklaşım: Dil, Gerçeklik, Söylem” (An Intertextual Approach to the Film Kanun Namına / In the Name of the Law: Language, Realism, Discourse). Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler XII: Sinema ve Felsefe, 5-7 May 2011, Kadir Has University, Istanbul. "Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesi: Kim Yıktı? Kim Çekti? Kim 'Yazdı'? (The Russian Monument at Ayastefanos: Who Destroyed It? Who Filmed It? Who 'Wrote' It?)." Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler VI, 24-26 June 2004, Bahçeşehir University, Department of Cinema and Television, Istanbul. "(Re)Constructing Ayastefanos: The Origination of Turkish Cinema." Continuity / Rupture: Perspectives on the past, the present and change, 5-6 March, 2004, İ.D. Bilkent University, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas, Ankara. 6 "Yıldızlar Evimizde: İzleyici Mektuplarının Penceresinden Altmışlı Yılların Yeşilçam Olayı (Stars at Home: 1960s Yeşilçam Event from the Perspective of an Audience Discourse)." Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler IV, 01-03 July 2002, Bahçeşehir University, Department of Cinema and Television, Istanbul. "Puro Lüks'e, Yeşilçam Hollywood'a Karşı: Yeşilçam-Hollywood Gerilimine 'Metinler Arası' Bir Yaklaşım” (Puro Versus Lüks; Yeşilçam Versus Hollywood: An Intertextual Look at Yeşilçam-Hollywood Rivalry). Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler III, 02-04 July 2001, Bahçeşehir University, Department of Cinema and Television, Istanbul. "Türk Sineması Ne? Türk Seyircisi Kim?” (What is Turkish Cinema? Who is Turkish Spectator?) Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler II, 30 June - 2 July 2000, Bilgi University, Department of Cinema and Television, Istanbul. "Yerli Melodramlar ve Ruhsal Boşalım” (Turkish Melodramas and Emotional Purification). Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler I, 18-20 June 1999, Bilgi University, Department of Cinema and Television, Istanbul. INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS “Sansür” (Censorship). Workshop at Sinema Okur Yazarlığı: Film Analizi ve Sinema Eleştirmenliği Atölyesi, CAVA Enstitü, CerModern, Ankara, 14 April 2013. “Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema.” Seminar for Cultural Studies Program, Sabancı University, February 2013. “İzleyici ve Alımlama” (Audience and Reception). Workshop at Sinema Okur Yazarlığı: Film Analizi ve Sinema Eleştirmenliği Atölyesi, CAVA Enstitü, CerModern, Ankara, 2 December 2012. “Dünya Sineması ve Türk Sineması” (World Cinema and Turkish Cinema). Lecture at Dışişleri Bakanlığı Meslek Memurluğu Giriş Sınavlarına Hazırlık Kursu, Department of International Relations, İ.D. Bilkent University, 30 June 2010. “Dünya Sineması ve Türk Sineması” (World Cinema and Turkish Cinema). Lecture at Dışişleri Bakanlığı Meslek Memurluğu Giriş Sınavlarına Hazırlık Kursu, Department of International Relations, İ.D. Bilkent University, 25 June 2009. “A Different Story of Secularism: The Censorship of Religion in Turkish Films of the 1960s.” Presentation at Library Lunchtime Lecture Series, İ.D. Bilkent University, 16 December 2009. “Dünya Sineması ve Türk Sineması” (World Cinema and Turkish Cinema). Lecture at Dışişleri Bakanlığı Meslek Memurluğu Giriş Sınavlarına Hazırlık Kursu, Department of International Relations, İ.D. Bilkent University, 7 July 2008. 7 “Avrupa Sinemasında Türk İmgesi” (The Image of Turk in European Cinema). Presentation at Avrupa Sanatında Türk İmgesi: Opera, Edebiyat, Sinema ve Resin, Ankara Üniversitesi, ATAUM, 9 May 2008. "Teori ve Pratik Arasında Bir Üçüncü Kavram: Pro-ject" (A Third Concept between Theory and Practice: Pro-ject). Presentation at 2000'de Sanat Eğitimi Ütopyaları Sempozyumu, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, 6 June 2000. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES 2012 Supervisor, Kuram/Sanat/Tasarım Lisansüstü Öğrenci Buluşması: Eksik, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2011- Institute Committee Member, Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2011 Supervisor, Kuram/Sanat/Tasarım Lisansüstü Öğrenci Buluşması: Sokak, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2010- Department Chair, Department of Graphic Design, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2010 Supervisor and Advisory Board Member, İletişim ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Lisansüstü Öğrenci Konferansı, İ.D. Bilkent University, 1820 June 2010. 2009- Curriculum Committee Chair, Department of Graphic Design, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2008- Graduate Program Coordinator. 2008- Faculty Committee Member, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2008- Departmental Library Representative. 2008- 2011 Institute Committee Member, Institute of Fine Arts, İ.D. Bilkent University. 2008- 2009 Exchange Program Coordinator. SERVICES TO THE FIELD 2012 Programming Committee Member, Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler XIV: Sinema ve Edebiyat, Kadir Has University. 8 2011 Jury member for TL Simge Yarışması, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası. 2010- Advisory Board Member and Manuscript Reviewer, Sinecine, Dipnot Yayınevi. 2010 Programming Committee Member, Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler XI: Sinema ve Yeni, Kadir Has University. 2010 Jury member in the Araştırma Görevlisi Kadrosu Giriş Sınavı, Sakarya Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi. 2010 Jury member at Fulbright Student Program interviews. 2009 Jury member at Fulbright Student Program interviews. 2009 Manuscript reviewer, Media Culture and Society. 2009 Referee, Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler X: Sinema ve Hayal, Kadir Has University. 2007 Jury member at “Tükçemize Sahip olalım, Sahibimiz Olmasın” Social Advertisement Contest, Ankara Halkla İlişkiler Derneği. HONORS AND AWARDS 2004 Brock University, Distinguished Graduating Student Award - Popular Culture 2003 The Edgar and Irmgard Penner Graduate Scholarship. 2002-2003 Brock University Graduate Fellowship. 2001 Çünkü Kedi Gizemlidir (For the Cat is Mysterious), with Tanyel Ali Mutlu, Honorable Mention in Animation, 13th Ankara International Film Festival Short Film Competition. 1999 Çığlık (Scream), with Tanyel Ali Mutlu, First Place in Animation, IFSAK 21st National Short Film Festival. 1997-2002 İ.D. Bilkent University Graduate Fellowship. 1992-1997 İ.D. Bilkent University Undergraduate Scholarship. 9