Deniz Cinar

Bio

İlyas Deniz Çınar (he/him) is a PhD student in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. His forthcoming publications include a critical literature review of Jewish-Turkish theater historiography and an analysis of contemporary Western-genre films produced in Turkey. Deniz’s current research interests focus on how spatial dynamics convey contested political stances and mediate cultural and gendered representations in Turkish, English, and German novels and films. Additionally, he studies the politics of fandom in Turkish football fan documentaries.

Publications

“Post-Coup Querness in Turkish Cinema: Gender, Sexuality, and Psychomachia in Kartal Tibet’s Şabaniye”

“Large-Scale Collaborative Research Projects in Theatre and Performance Studies (w/ Altınay, Karabekir, Tosun, and Yıldırım)”

Research Interests

Contemporary Novel; Spatial Theory; Transnationalism; Film Analysis, History, and Theory; Theater and Performance Studies

Education History 

B.A.: Boğaziçi University, English Language and Literature (minors in Film Studies and American Studies), 2020

M.A.: Kadir Has University, Communication Studies, 2023.