Jocelyn Aksin

Jocelyn Aksin serves as Teaching Associate Professor of German and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she joined in 2023 after teaching at UNC Greensboro and eight years of research in Istanbul.

She earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis with a dissertation examining memory representations in Turkish-German novels by Zafer Şenocak, Aras Ören, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

Her research specializes in Turkish-German literary intersections, focusing on shared memory cultures, migration narratives, and trauma transmission. Current projects analyze Feridun Zaimoglu’s play Schwarze Jungfrauen, Zülfü Livaneli’s novel Serenad, and Heinrich Heine’s Turkish translations, consistently centering on authors like Özdamar to explore cultural identity and historical consciousness.

Recent publications (2019-2023) reveal a cohesive trajectory examining archival traces, transgenerational trauma, and staged migration in Turkish-German literature, with particular emphasis on Özdamar’s works as lenses for understanding diaspora experiences and memory politics in transnational contexts.

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