Biography
Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu is a lecturer in Turkish language and literature at the University of Duisburg-Essen and a postdoctoral researcher at TU Dortmund University within the DFG-funded Research Unit “Ambiguity and Distinction: Historical and Cultural Dynamics”. Her research interests include Islam in contemporary Turkish and world literature, Muslim feminism, digital literature, and Turkish language and literature education in post-migrant Germany. Her current project examines the politics and practices of digital authorship among young pious writers in contemporary Turkey and Germany, focusing on writing collectives, anonymity, self-censorship, and self-publishing.
Educational Background:
Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu was trained in translation studies at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, liberal arts at Bard College Berlin, and intercultural humanities at Jacobs University Bremen. She received her Ph.D. summa cum laude in 2019 from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany with a dissertation on contemporary Turkish crime fiction.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
“Queerness as Lived Ambiguity”: Cultural Resistance in Reyhan Şahin’s Protest Performance Art.“ Imagining an Alternative Turkey: Political Performativity, Counter-Memory, Mobilizing Publics. Eds. Deniz Başar, Eylem Ejder and Pieter Verstraete, London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
“Confessions of a Convert and Whispers of Heresy: Strategies of Ambiguity in İskender Pala’s İtiraf.“ Religious, Cultural and Ethnic Ambiguities in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Eds. Kader Konuk, Gülbin Kıranoğlu and Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu. London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming.
“The Islamic Literary Field and its Recent Transformation in Contemporary Turkey.” Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe: Transcultural Perspectives. Eds. Carmen Zamorano, Mattias Aronsson et. al., London/New York: Routledge (2025).
Other Links:
https://germanistik.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/tuefekcioglu/
