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EDUCATION
2024–Present, Humboldt University
Ph.D. in American Studies
2018–2020, Ankara University
M.A. in English Language and Literature
2012–2014, Yeditepe University
B.A. in English Language and Literature (Double Major)
2008–2013, Yeditepe University
B.A. in Political Science and International Relations
EMPLOYMENT
2024–Present
Research Assistant & Ph.D. Candidate
Humboldt University
2020–2023
Research Assistant
Hacettepe University
2018–2020
Research Assistant
Ağrı University
PUBLICATIONS
2024
“Revisiting Antigone in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan (1996)”, Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
2024
“Beyond Cyberpunk: Reading Hopepunk as Queer Futurism in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built”, Scaffold: Journal of the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture
2024
“The Crisis of American Masculinity in James Herne’s Margaret Fleming (1890)”Journal of American Studies of Turkey
2024
“Unraveling Masculinities: A Cultural Shift” KULT_online (Book Review)
2022
“Objectification of Infantile Bodies: Understanding the Biopolitics of Antebellum America through Baby Shows”, Ankara Üniversitesi DTCF Journal
2021
“Memory’s Caged Bird Won’t Fly”: Nostalgia and Death in the Poetry of Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy, International Modernism&Postmodernism Network (Conference Proceeding)
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025
Karaköse, Onur. “Neo-Medieval America: Fan-Modding Speculative U.S. Futures in After the End.” IASA Emerging Scholars’ Conference, Online.
Karaköse, Onur. “Dramatizing Mass Shootings on the Contemporary American Stage: Theater and the Public-Negotiation of a Nation in Crisis.” CDE PhD Forum, Germany.
Karaköse, Onur.“Affectual Frameworks in Autographics: Craig Thompson’s Blankets and Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom.” 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), Online.
2024
Karaköse, Onur. “Re-storying the Pearl Mullet: Community-Based Collaborative Restoration in Mustafa Sarı’s Vazgeçme.” APEAA Conference: Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts, Portugal.
Karaköse, Onur. “Caught Between Two Worlds: Espionage, Forced Immigration, and Transnational Communication of the Chinese-American Subject in Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal.” EAAS Biennial Conference: 1924–2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, Germany.
2023
Karaköse, Onur. “The Astor Place Riots of 1849: How Was American Manhood Redefined by Shakespeare?”
Literary Scandals as Forms of Cultural Transgression, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen.
Karaköse, Onur. “Morphing Hopepunk into Queer Futurism as Multiplicative Speculation in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”ICSLAC Graduate Conference: The Cultural Inbetween: Exploring Distinctions Within Popular Culture, Carleton University.
ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
2025
Conference Co-Organizer: Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations, 2025 Biennial CAAR Conference, Humboldt University
2024
Conference Co-Organizer: Digital Games as Cultural and Literary Narratives, Hacettepe University
2022
Conference Co-Organizer: The Lure of Science and Technology in American Culture and Literature, Hacettepe University
THEATRE PRACTICE
2025–2026
Emma (Assistant Director)
Hubbub Theatre Group, Humboldt University
2024–2025
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters (Assistant Director)
Hubbub Theatre Group, Humboldt University
2022–2023
Appropriate – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Hacettepe University Theatre Club
