Colleen Kennedy-Karpat (PhD 2011, Rutgers University) teaches film & adaptation studies in the Department of Communication and Design (COMD) at Bilkent University, where she conducts research on media adaptations, national and transnational film cultures, nostalgia, genre, and stardom.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP: You Made Me Watch That?! podcast co-hosted with Wickham Flannagan (2022-) available wherever you get your audio // Video essays on Vimeo
MONOGRAPH: Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013)
EDITING: Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige (Palgrave, 2017, with Eric Sandberg) // Associate Editor, Adaptation (Oxford University Press), 2021-2024 // The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda (Bloomsbury, 2022, with Feride Çiçekoglu)
SPECIAL ISSUES: Adaptation and Nostalgia, Adaptation vol. 13 no. 3 (2020) // Teaching Women’s Filmmaking, Open Screens vol. 5 no. 2 (2022)
OTHER ESSAYS: Teaching L’Opéra-Mouffe (2022) // Adaptation in the New Turkish Cinema – with M. Mert Örsler (2023) // Virtual Varda: Sustainable legacies, digital communities, and scholarly postcards (2021) // Agnès Varda and the Singular Feminine (2020) // Cem Yılmaz and genre parody in Turkish national cinema – with M. Mert Örsler (2020) // Performance and prestige in the biopic (2019) // Technoscience and the sci-fidelity turn in Hollywood blockbusters – with Shahrzad Seyfafjehi (2021) // Bill Murray and Wes Anderson (2014) // Self-Adaptation and transnationality in Marjane Satrapi’s Poulet aux prunes (2015) // Authorship Discourse in Lovecraftian Video Games – with Serenay Günal (2023) // Generation Kill and the new screen combat – with Magdalena Yüksel (2016)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: Gender and Sustainability: Agnès Varda’s Sustaining Legacy – “Virtual Varda” (2020) // Teaching Women’s Filmmaking (2021)