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2 saate yakın süren, ırk, toplumsal cinsiyet, sömürge sonrası çalışmalar, müzik, kültür çalışmaları gibi farklı alanlarda çokça sorunun sorulduğu bu keyifli konuşma için başta Dr. Bryan Banker, katılan öğrencilerimiz, ve bölüm öğretim elemanlarımıza teşekkür ederiz.

 

Bryan Banker

Assistant Professor

Department of English Language and Literature

TOBB University of Economics and Technology

 

Short Bio

Bryan Banker is an assistant professor of English language and literature at TOBB University of Economics and Technology. Before that he was a lecturer of Gender and Diversity and Intercultural Competence and the English Language Coordinator at Hochschule Fresenius: University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He received his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, in American Literature in 2018, and his MA in American Studies at Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Universität Heidelberg in 2012. He focuses on American literature and culture, postcolonial world literature and culture, science fiction, music, and television.

In terms of his publications, in 2019, Bryan wrote “‘The Modality in Which Class is Lived”’: Literalizing Race and Class in The Expanse” in the Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature. In 2020, he co-edited a special issue in the journal Humanities, on “Racecraft and Speculative Culture” and contributed with the article “Racecrafting the Antiquity: ‘Historical’ Representation of Race in Assassin’s Creed: Origins”- both came out in early 2021. Also in 2021, his article “Paul Robeson as Black Hegelian?: Dialectical Aesthetics in The Emperor Jones” appeared in Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power.

 

Last year, his chapter “Against Home: Neanderthal Ontology, Movement, and Locative Thinking,” where he argued against the philosophical importance of home by theorizing Neanderthal migration patterns, appeared in the book Homelessness in American Imaginations. Most recently, his article on John Coltrane and philosophy appeared in the Jazz Research Journal a few months ago, which is what he will talk about tonight. Currently, Bryan is writing about gender, class, and crime in the HBO series Mare of Easttown for the Crime Fiction Studies journal, which will be out later this year.