Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne
Areas of expertise
- Transnational History 430323
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 470212
- Comparative And Transnational Literature 470507
Research interests
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First world War Studies
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Ethnic and migration history in Australia
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Memory Studies
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Public history
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Emotional history
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Migrant writing
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Place and identity
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Gender Studies
Biography
Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne is a historian and a lecturer in Turkish Studies at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. She specialises in transnational histories of remembrance of the First World War and Turkish migrant cultures.
Her research focuses on the social and cultural legacies of the First World War and politics and practices of remembrance of the war in post-imperial and postcolonial nations. Her research uncovers intercultural experiences of the war and its current memorialisation among diasporas in Australia.
Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne’s research is multidisciplinary and remains engaged in First World War Studies, transnational creative writing and cross cultural studies.
Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne is the convenor or Turkish Studies at ANU and the student advisor for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies. She teaches Turkish language as well as Turkish history, society, culture and politics courses.
Current student projects
- James Freeman (Master), "Central Asian imagery in contemporary Turkish visual and material culture"
Past student projects
- Anna-Marieke Lechner Scott (Honours), "Settler Narratives in the Canberran Landscape"
- Cassandra Collier (Honours), "The UK Media’s Portrayal of Female ISIS Members: From Bride to Bridezilla"
Publications
- Cevik-Compiegne, B 2022, ''As Long as the Internet Lasts': Harnessing the Digital Turn in Turkish-Australian Gallipoli Centenary Commemorations', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 319-338.
- Cevik-Compiegne, B 2019, ''Long Shadows: The Great War, Australia and the Middle East'', History Australia, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 210-211.
- Cevik-Compiegne, B 2018, ''If we were not, they could not be': Turkish diasporic politics of memory', History Australia, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 306-322.
- Cevik-Compiegne, B & Ploner, J 2018, 'Gallipoli revisited: Transnational and transgenerational memory among Turkish and Sikh communities in Australia', in Sabine Marschall (ed.), Memory, Tourism and Migration, Routledge, London, pp. 85-103.
- Cevik-Compiegne, B 2015, 'From Gallipoli (1915) to the War of Independence (1919-1922): Modernisation of Turkish Womanhood', Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 102-115.
