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Melisa Köroğlu, M.A.

Predoc Scholarship Recipient, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne

Research Interests

  • Film Studies
    - The Horror Film
    - Coming of Age Films
    - Colourscape in Cinema
  • The American Gothic
  • Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 
Teaching
Winter Term 2025PSSP: American Gothic, U of Cologne
Spring Term 2025Guest Lecture on “The American Coming of Age FIlm” in PSSP Coming of Age in American Literature taught by PD Dr. Johanna Pitetti-Heil, U of Cologne
Fall Term 2024Guest Lecture on "The Monstrous Feminine: The Horror Film, Female Sexuality and the Abject" in The Old and The New Weird taught by Dr. Burak Sezer, TU Dortmund
Fall Term 2022Elementary German, Department for Modern Languages and Cultures, U of Rochester, NY, USA
Spring Term 2023Elementary German, Department for Modern Languages and Cultures, U of Rochester, NY, USA
Education
2021 - 
2024		Graduate Studies in North American Studies University of Cologne, Degree: M.A. (1,6)
2022Graduate Cerificate in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies awarded by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, University of Rochester
2022-2023Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature, University of Rochester, Degree: M.A. (GPA 4.0 (1,0))
2016-2021Undergraduate Studies in English Studies and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Degree: B.A. 
Membership
Since 2025Mentee in the EGP+ Mentoring Programm 
Since 2024BAFTSS: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies 
Since 2023ENCS:  European Network for Cinema and Media Studies                                                                                                                                    
Since 2022SCMS: Society for Cinema and Media Studies                                                                                                                                                                 
2023

Susan B. Anthony Center: Student Advisory Board.

Planned A Screening of "The Hunting Ground" (2015) for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (04/23), and took part in a Social Media Campaign for Black History Month (02/23) and Women's History Month (03/23) 

 
Since 2021North American Studies Student Union: Collaborated with fellow students on organizing campus events and addressing student concerns. 
Talks
09/2025Conference Talk: “Sipping or Starving: Female Hunger and Repression of Appetite in the Contemporary Vampire Film”, POPCRN!, Austrailia's Popular Culture Research Network, Online. 
11/2024Master Thesis Presentation: "Is It Human To Starve? Hunger, Satiability and Excess in Contemporary American Horror Films", SCMS Horror SIG Work-in-Progress Symposium, Online 
03/2023Research Presentation: "The University Campus as a Playground for the Sexual Predator", Graduate Research Symposium, University of Rochester 
10/2022Graduate Writing Collective Presentation: "In Need Of A Scapegoat: How Robert Eggers Alienates the Coming-Of-Age Process in His 2015 Horror Film The Witch," Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of Rochester 
Contact

Englisches Seminar I
Universität zu Köln
Albertus Magnus Platz 1
50923 Köln

 

E-Mail: mkoerog1[at]uni-koeln.de

Office Hours: Please contact me regarding an appointment per mail (mkoerog1[at]uni-koeln.de).

Guest Lecture by Melisa Köroğlu, July 2, 2025, noon

The American Coming of Age Film