Background
Gülden Olgun focuses on gender, identity and homeland in film, literature, and culture. She teaches all levels of German curriculum and content courses in English, which are cross-listed in the departments of Comparative Literature, Turkish Studies and Cinema.
Recently taught courses and seminars include: Minority and Migrant Voices in Popular Culture; Turkish-German Culture; Literature and Society; TV Series; and German language
Publications
“Homeland Films without Homeland: Examining Homeland in Soleen Yusef's Haus ohne Dach” in Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film, edited by Jean Amato and Kyunghee Pyun, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2023
“Kurdistan as Mythical and Imaginary Homeland” in Interdisciplinary Reflections on Domestic Space, Home and The Ancestral Homeland [in Diaspora], edited by Jean Amato and Kyunghee Pyun, Palgrave Macmillan, January 2024
“Challenging Stereotypes and the Liberation of the Middle East Woman from Victimhood" in Women Representing Women: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Lidia Radi and Simona Wright, Vernon Press, June 2024
Education
- PhD candidate (ABD), comparative literature, Binghamton University
- MA, German as a foreign and second language, University of Kassel in Germany
- BA, German language teaching, Anadolu University of Eskisehir in Turkey
Research Interests
- Migrants and refugees in the German and global context
- Diaspora and cultural production
- Feminist and sexuality studies
- Minority cinemas
- Minority and immigrant representation
- Foreign language pedagogy
Teaching Interests
- German language
- Transnational German cinema
- Women’s cinema
- Contemporary German minor literature
- Turkish-German cinema: displacement and diaspora
