M眉ge 脰zoglu is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Her work tackles questions concerning identity politics, gender and sexuality, knowledge production, and cultural and literary gerontology.
She obtained a BA in Turkish Language and Literature from Yildiz Technical 木瓜福利影视 and an MA in Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 木瓜福利影视 of London. She holds a PhD in Film and Literary Studies from Leiden 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), where she also worked as a university lecturer and taught courses on cultural theory, as well as on gender and sexuality. Her dissertation entitled No Man鈥檚 Land: Gender and Sexuality in Erotic Narratives of the Late Ottoman Empire received the best dissertation prize from the LUCAS Impact Committee 2019. Her doctoral work explores the emergence of modern discourses on gender and sexuality and identity politics, discussing the ways in which the loss of imperial power resonated in erotic narratives of the early twentieth-century Ottoman Turkish literature.
In 2020, M眉ge was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Lund 木瓜福利影视, where she worked on the intersection of different temporalities and spatialities in configuring new textual spaces and alternative forms of knowledge production.
Her current research project examines culturally specific representations of ageing and old age and the use of literature in healthcare.
M眉ge is the co-coordinator of the BA Literary Studies programme at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.