Jocelyn Aksin’s research is based in Turkish-German Studies with a focus on shared memory cultures between Turkey and Germany. Current projects include articles in preparation on Feridun Zaimoglu’s and Günter Senkel’s play, Schwarze Jungfrauen (Black Virgins, 2006) and on Turkish author Zülfü Livaneli’s popular novel, Serenad (Serenade for Nadia, 2011), as well as an investigation into the history and reception of translations of Heinrich Heine’s works into Turkish. After spending nearly eight years in Istanbul, where she wrote her dissertation and worked as a language teacher, Jocelyn is excited to join the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures at Chapel Hill.