Deniz Göktürk was born in Istanbul, studied in Konstanz/Germany, Norwich/UK, and Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in 1995. She joined the German Department at Berkeley in fall 2001, after having taught at the University of Southampton/UK for six years. Her publications include a book on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture: Künstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920 (1998) as well as numerous articles on migration, culture, and cinema. As a translator from Turkish into German she co-edited an anthology of contemporary Turkish literature, Jedem Wort gehört ein Himmel (1991, with Zafer Senocak), and translated novels by Aras Ören and Bilge Karasu. She is co-editor of The German Cinema Book (published by the British Film Institute in 2002, co-edited with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter). She has been collaborating with Anton Kaes and a team of students on the "Multicultural Germany Project" and has organized workshops and conferences such as "Rethinking Diversity in Europe and the USA" and "Goodbye Germany? Migration, Culture, and the Nation State." Germany in Transit. Nation and Migration, 1955-2005, a co-edited sourcebook growing out of this project, was published in 2007 by University of California Press. She is one of the co-founders of TRANSIT, the first electronic journal in German studies, launched by the Berkeley German Department in September 2005. She teaches courses and graduate seminars on: "Transnational Cinemas," "World Cinema/Global Cities," "German Cinema: Space, Borders, and Mobility," "Comedy and Community," "Nation, Migration, and Multiculturalism," "Auteur Cinema: Werner Herzog," "Kafka and Modernism," "Hybrid Cultures: Jews and Turks in Germany," and "German Orientalism."

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Books

Künstler, Cowboys, Ingenieure: Kultur- und mediengeschichtliche Studien zu deutschen Amerika-Texten 1912-1920. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998. 265 pp.

Edited Collections

Jedem Wort gehört ein Himmel: Türkei literarisch. Co-edited with Zafer Senocak. Berlin: Babel Verlag, 1991. 207 pp.

The German Cinema Book. Co-edited with Tim Bergfelder and Erica Carter. London: BFI, 2002. 291 pp.

Multicultural Germany: Art, Performance and Media. Special Issue of New German Critique 92 (Spring/Summer 2004). Co-edited with Barbara Wolbert.

Germany in Transit. Nation and Migration, 1955-2005. A Sourcebook. Co-edited with David Gramling and Anton Kaes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 588 pp.

Articles

"Verstöße gegen das Reinheitsgebot: Migrantenkino zwischen wehleidiger Pflichtübung und wechselseitigem Grenzverkehr." Multikulturalismus und Populärkultur. Ed. Ruth Mayer and Mark Terkissidis. St. Andrä/Wördern: Hannibal Verlag, 1998: 99-114.

"Kennzeichen: weiblich, türkisch, deutsch, Beruf: Sozialarbeiterin, Schriftstellerin, Schauspielerin....." Frauen Literatur Geschichte -- Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Renate Möhrmann and Hiltrud Gnüg. Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 1999: 516-532.

"Turkish Women on German Streets. Closure and Exposure in Transnational Cinema." Space in European Cinema. Ed. Myrto Konstantarakos. Exeter/Portland: Intellect, 2000: 64-76.

"Migration und Kino - Subnationale Mitleidskultur oder transnationale Rollenspiele?" Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch, ed. by Carmine Chiellino, Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 2000: 329- 347.

"Turkish delight -- German fright: Migrant identities in transnational cinema." Mediated Identities, ed. by Deniz Derman, Karen Ross and Nevena Dakovic. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2001: 131-149. Also as working paper for the ESRC Transnational Communities Research Programme: www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

"Turkish Cinema". Chapter for Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Co-authored with Nezih Erdogan, ed. by Oliver Leaman. London: Routledge, 2001: 533-573.

"Anyone at Home? Itinerant Identities in European Cinema of the 1990s." Framework. Special Issue on Middle Eastern Media Arts 43.2 (Fall 2002): 201-212.

"Beyond Paternalism: Turkish German Traffic in Cinema." The German Cinema Book. Ed. by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk. London: BFI, 2002: 248-256.

"Strangers in Disguise: Role Play beyond Identity Politics in Anarchic Film Comedy." New German Critique 92. Special Issue on "Multicultural Germany: Art, Performance and Media." Eds. Deniz Göktürk and Barbara Wolbert. (Spring/Summer 2004): 100-122.

Shorter Articles

"Migration und Kino: Subnationale Mitleidskultur oder transnationale Rollenspiele?" Springerin Vol. 7, Nr. 2 (June-September 2001): 42-47.

"Spectacles of Multiculturalism in the New Berlin." The New History of German Literature. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2004: 965-970.

"Rollenspiel und Grenzverkehr im Kino der Migranten." Projekt Migration. Exhibition Catalogue. Köln: DuMont Verlag, 2005: 510-519.

"Yüksel Yavuz' Kleine Freiheit." TRANSIT. Inaugural Issue on "Migration, Culture, and the Nation State." http://german.berkeley.edu/transit/2005/kfreiheit.html