Alev Adil
Courses
Undergraduate
Global Cinema, National Identities
Postgraduate
Contemporary Cultures & Commodification
Head of Department of Communications & Creative Arts
Link Tutor for Film Studies at New York College, Athens & for Media & Communication at SBCS, Trinidad
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 9065
Email: a.adil@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 334
Office Hours
Wednesday 12 - 2pm
Thursday 12 - 1pm
Biography :
Alev Adil’s research explores diasporal and postcolonial identity and memory practices in contemporary literature and art, with a particular emphasis on Cypriot identity. In addition to publishing in international academic and literary journals, she is an internationally renowned poet who has been translated into Albanian, Azeri, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian and Turkish; and a respected literary critic who has reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement, The Financial Times, The Independent and The Guardian. Since 2004 she has published a volume of poetry Venus Infers, and has been anthologised in 15 collections of poetry in the UK, the US, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Lithuania.
Adil’s creative work explores identity and memory and the relationship between language and image through both literary and creative practice. Her film-poems and photography have been exhibited in group shows in the Baltimore Gallery (2000) in the US, The Small Mansions Gallery (2001), Waterman’s Gallery (2001), PM Gallery (2008) and the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in London (2008 and 2010). As part of her research into collective memory, she created an on-line exhibition space, www.memorymap.org.uk for photography, film, writing and music. MemoryMap is a (psycho)Geographical (un)Postioning System, a digital cartography created collectively through the diverse contributions of participants, exploring our relationship with place and with the objects, gestures, climates and people we associate with those places.
Research/scholarly interests (please list):
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
- Developing Identities: the history of the Turkish Cypriot Photographic Subject’ in Constructing Identities: Cypriot Photography in Context Ed. Liz Wells et al. I.B. Tauris 2012 (chapter in book).
- ‘Translating and Mutating Identities: Cypriots who write in English’ in The Series of Modern Turkish Cypriot Literature Volume 7, Literary Criticism and Study. Ed. Murat Bulbulcu Freebirds Press, Cyprus, 2009 (chapter in book).
- ‘Towards a poetics of the ‘Dead Zone’ of Nicosia’ in Memory and Nostalgia Eds. Silku, Erdem and Folk, Ege University Press, 2009 (chapter in book).
- "Technology on Screen: Projections, Paranoia and Discursive Practice," co-authored Alev Adil and Stephen Kennedy, in ed. R. Torres and D.Riha Cybercultures and the Human. Oxford: The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2007 (chapter in book).
- ‘Western Eyes : Turkish Literature in a British Context’in Gerald MacLean (ed.) Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish history, politics and cultural identity, London: Middlesex University Press, 2006 (chapter in book).
- ‘Writing the (post-oriental) Self’ Interaction : international journal of British and American Culture, 2006 (refereed journal).