Dr Gozde Naiboglu
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Film Studies
Biography
Gozde is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Â׸£ÀûƬ. She previously held a lectureship at the University of Leicester (2017–2025). She holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Manchester and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Her research sits at the intersection of film theory and philosophy, with a particular focus on European and world cinemas. Her specialist areas include Turkish German cinema, migration and diaspora, negative aesthetics and affect, extreme cinema, and feminist film theory.
She is the author of Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema: Work, Globalisation and Politics beyond Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and her work has appeared in journals including Feminist German Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and Studies in European Cinema. Her second monograph, Negative Aesthetics and the Politics of Pessimism in Contemporary European Diasporic Film, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in the Political Cinemas series (2028). Focusing on five contemporary directors with diasporic backgrounds, the book examines how their work, particularly in the horror and crime genres, uses negative aesthetics to challenge dominant ideologies. Drawing on contemporary theories of negation, Negative Aesthetics argues that negative affect can become a positive force for envisioning alternative futures.
Areas of Research
Film theory and philosophy
European and World Cinemas
Turkish German cinema and other migration and diaspora cinemas in Europe
West Asian cinemas, particularly Turkey and Iran.
Alternative and cult cinema
Gender and sexuality studies
Contemporary screen cultures
Cinema and global politics
Modules Gozde is currently teaching include:
Film Histories / Film Movements I and II
Film Form, Film Meaning
Qualifications
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Ph.D. German
2010 - 2015 -
M.A. Film Studies
2008 - 2010 -
B.A. Comparative Literature
2001 - 2006