Staff
Dr. Johanna Chovanec, B.A. MA
T: +43-1-4277-43080
Summer term 2024
141222 VO M5b Aspects of Modern Turkish Literature
Winter term 2023
Summer term 2023
141222 VO M5b Aspects of Modern Turkish Literature
Chovanec, J. (2024). Literature and the Legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s Post-Imperial Condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(4), 608-628. [1]. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231225149
Chovanec, J. (2023). Tüfekçioğlu, Zeynep: Nation and Identity in Turkish Crime Fiction. Reading Ahmet Ümit’s Novels as a Medium of Ideological Negotiation. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 113, 257-259.
Chovanec, J. (2022). Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Post-Imperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur. In G. Zocco, S. Folie, & K. Edtstadler (Eds.), New Perspectives on Imagology (pp. 181-200). Brill. Studia imagologica Vol. 30 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_010
Kucera, P., & Chovanec, J. (2022). Caught in the Text: Authenticity, Originality and Intertextuality in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Istanbul. In P. Kucera, & J. Rentzsch (Eds.), Texts, Contexts, Intertexts: Studies in Honor of Orhan Pamuk (pp. 261–317). Ergon Verlag.
Chovanec, J., & Magerski, C. (2021). Die Geburt des Rechtspositivismus aus dem Zerfall der politischen Ordnung. Kelsen und die Reine Rechtslehre. In M. Bobinac, A. Seidler, & J. Spreicer (Eds.), Europa im Schatten des Ersten Weltkriegs: Kollabierende Imperien, Staatenbildung und politische Gewalt (1 ed., pp. 45-66). Narr Francke Attempto.
Chovanec, J. (2021). Auf der Suche nach Europa: West und Ost im (post-)imperialen Roman der Türkei. IWMpost, 108, 17-17.
Chovanec, J., Aydin-Düzgit, S., & Rumelili, B. (2021). Europe and the Ottoman Empire: Images of Self and the Other. In D. Bouris, D. Huber, & M. Pace (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations (pp. 15-25). Routledge.
Chovanec, J., Fisher Onar, N., Ozturk , A. E., Tziarras, Z., Walton, J., & Filipović, E. (2021). M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review: Nostalgia for Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism. Middle East Critique, 30(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2021.1914928
Chovanec, J. (2021). M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review: Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism. Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 3, 105-108.
Chovanec, J., & Heilo, O. (Eds.) (2021). Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism. (1 ed.) Palgrave Macmillan. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Chovanec, J., & Heilo, O. (2021). Narrating Empires: Between National and Multinational Visions of Belonging. In J. Chovanec, & O. Heilo (Eds.), Narrated Empires : Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism (pp. 3-35). Palgrave Macmillan. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Chovanec, J. (2021). The Ottoman Myth in Turkish Literature. In Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism (1 ed., pp. 331-366). Palgrave Macmillan. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
Chovanec, J., Cloeters, G., inal, O., Joppien, C., & Woźniak, U. (2020). Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände. In Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände
Chovanec, J., Inal, O., Cloeters, G., Wozniak, U., & Joppien, C. (Eds.) (2020). Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände . Springer.
Chovanec, J. (Editor), Aydin-Düzgit, S. (Editor), Rumelili, B. (Editor), & Königsbrun, R. (Editor) (Eds.). (2019). Between Rapprochement and Rejection: Identity and Cultural Drivers in Europe-Turkey Relations. Web publication https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37856
Chovanec, J. (2018). Istanbul: eine melancholische Stadt im Kontext des Osmanischen Mythos. In J. Chovanec, M. Bobinac, J. Spreicer, & W. Müller-Funk (Eds.), (Post)imperiale Narrative in den zentraleuropäischen Literaturen der Moderne (pp. 49). Narr Francke Attempto.
Chovanec, J. (Author), Rumelili, B. (Author), Aydin-Düzgit, S. (Author), Topal, A. E. (Author), & Gülmez, S. B. (Author). (2018). Paper on Turkish and European Identity Constructions in the 1946-1999 Period: Deliverable 7.4 of the EU Horizon 2020 project „The future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping dynamics and testing scenarios – FEUTURE” . Web publication https://feuture.uni-koeln.de/sites/feuture/pdf/Online_Paper_No_15_final.pdf
Bobinac, M., Chovanec, J., Müller-Funk, W., & Spreicer, J. (Eds.) (2018). Postimperiale Narrative im zentraleuropäischen Raum. Narr Francke Attempto. Kultur - Herrschaft - Differenz Vol. 25
Chovanec, J. (2017). Melancholie in der Literatur als Ausdruck des Habsburgischen und Osmanischen Mythos. In E. Sturm-Trigonakis, O. Laskaridou, E. Petropoulou, & K. Karakassi (Eds.), Turns und kein Ende? Aktuelle Tendenzen in Germanistik und Komparatistik (pp. 171-186). Peter Lang. Hellenogermanica : griechische germanistische Hochschulstudien Vol. 5
Chovanec, J. (Author), Aydin-Düzgit, S. (Author), Gülmez, S. B. (Author), Rumelili, B. (Author), & Topal, A. E. (Author). (2017). Paper on Turkish and European Identity Constructions in the 1815-1945 Period: Deliverable 7.3 of the EU Horizon 2020 project „The future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping dynamics and testing scenarios - FEUTURE“. Web publication https://doi.org/https://fatcat.wiki/release/bkxowok6k5hk5bcd4ja6ua5hkm
Johanna Chovanec
Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
Research interests
Turkish literature, post-imperial and post-colonial studies, identity constructions in Europe and Turkey, health humanities, neurodiversity studies, critical autism studies
Employment
Predoc
Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
Universität WienAustria
1 Nov 2022 → present
Academic third-party funded project staff
Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
Universität WienAustria
1 Jul 2018 → 31 Oct 2022
Researcher for the Horizon 2020 project "FEUTURE-The Future of EU-Turkey relations"
Sabanci Universityİstanbul, Turkey
1 Sep 2016 → 31 Aug 2017
Scholarships and Awards
| 2018-2022 | Doctoral fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) |
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| 2018-2021 | Doctoral fellowship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| 2018-2019 | Advancement scholarship for research stays abroad (University of Vienna) |
| 2017 | merit based scholarship (University of Vienna) |
| 2015-2016 | ERASMUS+ scholarship |
| 2015 | Research Grant of the Municipality of Vienna |
| 2013-2014 | ERASMUS scholarship |
Research Projects
| 2017-2022 | Occidentalist discourses in Turkish Literature (doctoral project) |
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| 2018-2020 | affiliated researcher of the bilateral (Austria/Croatia) project: "Construction of the Other from the Central European Perspective”, funded by the “Austria/Croatia: Scientific & Technological Cooperation” (OEAD) |
| 2016-2018 | affiliated researcher of the Croatian project “(Post-)imperiale Narrative in den zentraleuropäischen Literaturen der Moderne”, University of Zagreb, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation |
| 2016-2017 | Researcher in the EU Horizon 2020 - project „The future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping dynamics and testing scenarios - FEUTURE“ at Sabanci University, Istanbul (Turkey); Work Package 7 „Identity and Cultural Relations“, http://www.feuture.eu/ |
Publications
Literature and the Legacy of Empire: Approaching Turkey’s Post-Imperial Condition through Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Chovanec, J., May 2024, In: Philosophy & Social Criticism. 50, 4, p. 608-628 21 p., 1.Tüfekçioğlu, Zeynep: Nation and Identity in Turkish Crime Fiction. Reading Ahmet Ümit’s Novels as a Medium of Ideological Negotiation
Chovanec, J., Nov 2023, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 113, p. 257-259 3 p.Between Orient and Occident: The Construction of a Post-Imperial Turkish Identity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Novel Huzur
Chovanec, J., 2022, New Perspectives on Imagology. Zocco, G., Folie, S. & Edtstadler, K. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 181-200 20 p. (Studia imagologica, Vol. 30).Caught in the Text: Authenticity, Originality and Intertextuality in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Istanbul
Kucera, P. & Chovanec, J., 2022, Texts, Contexts, Intertexts: Studies in Honor of Orhan Pamuk. Kucera, P. & Rentzsch, J. (eds.). Ergon Verlag, p. 261–317Die Geburt des Rechtspositivismus aus dem Zerfall der politischen Ordnung. Kelsen und die Reine Rechtslehre
Chovanec, J. & Magerski, C., Mar 2021, Europa im Schatten des Ersten Weltkriegs: Kollabierende Imperien, Staatenbildung und politische Gewalt. Bobinac, M., Seidler, A. & Spreicer, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, p. 45-66Auf der Suche nach Europa: West und Ost im (post-)imperialen Roman der Türkei
Chovanec, J., 2021, In: IWMpost. 108, p. 17-17 1 p.Europe and the Ottoman Empire: Images of Self and the Other
Chovanec, J., Aydin-Düzgit, S. & Rumelili, B., 2021, Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations. Bouris, D., Huber, D. & Pace, M. (eds.). Routledge, p. 15-25M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review: Nostalgia for Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism
Chovanec, J., Fisher Onar, N., Ozturk, A. E., Tziarras, Z., Walton, J. & Filipović, E., 2021, Middle East Critique, 30, 2, p. 111-126 16 p.M. Hakan Yavuz (2020) Review: Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo-Ottomanism
Chovanec, J., 2021, Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, 3, p. 105-108.Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Chovanec, J. (ed.) & Heilo, O. (ed.), 2021, 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe).Narrating Empires: Between National and Multinational Visions of Belonging
Chovanec, J. & Heilo, O., 2021, Narrated Empires : Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism. Chovanec, J. & Heilo, O. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 3-35 (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe).The Ottoman Myth in Turkish Literature
Chovanec, J., 2021, Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism. 1 ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 331-366 (Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe).Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände
Chovanec, J., Cloeters, G., inal, O., Joppien, C. & Woźniak, U., 2020, Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände.Türkeiforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum: Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände
Chovanec, J. (ed.), Inal, O. (ed.), Cloeters, G. (ed.), Wozniak, U. (ed.) & Joppien, C. (ed.), 2020, Springer. 260 p.Between Rapprochement and Rejection: Identity and Cultural Drivers in Europe-Turkey Relations
Chovanec, J. (ed.), Aydin-Düzgit, S. (ed.), Rumelili, B. (ed.) & Königsbrun, R. (ed.), 2019Istanbul: eine melancholische Stadt im Kontext des Osmanischen Mythos
Chovanec, J., 2018, (Post)imperiale Narrative in den zentraleuropäischen Literaturen der Moderne. Chovanec, J., Bobinac, M., Spreicer, J. & Müller-Funk, W. (eds.). Narr Francke Attempto, p. 49 68 p.Paper on Turkish and European Identity Constructions in the 1946-1999 Period: Deliverable 7.4 of the EU Horizon 2020 project „The future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping dynamics and testing scenarios – FEUTURE”
Chovanec, J., Rumelili, B., Aydin-Düzgit, S., Topal, A. E. & Gülmez, S. B., 2018Postimperiale Narrative im zentraleuropäischen Raum
Bobinac, M. (ed.), Chovanec, J. (ed.), Müller-Funk, W. (ed.) & Spreicer, J. (ed.), 2018, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 263 p. (Kultur - Herrschaft - Differenz, Vol. 25).Melancholie in der Literatur als Ausdruck des Habsburgischen und Osmanischen Mythos
Chovanec, J., 2017, Turns und kein Ende? Aktuelle Tendenzen in Germanistik und Komparatistik . Sturm-Trigonakis, E., Laskaridou, O., Petropoulou, E. & Karakassi, K. (eds.). Peter Lang, p. 171-186 (Hellenogermanica : griechische germanistische Hochschulstudien, Vol. 5).Paper on Turkish and European Identity Constructions in the 1815-1945 Period: Deliverable 7.3 of the EU Horizon 2020 project „The future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping dynamics and testing scenarios - FEUTURE“
Chovanec, J., Aydin-Düzgit, S., Gülmez, S. B., Rumelili, B. & Topal, A. E., 2017Marlen Haushofers Die Wand als Thirdspace
Chovanec, J., 2016, In: Sprachkunst: Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft. p. 15-30 15 p., 45/1.Recent Presentations
Occidentalism and the Imagination of Self and Other in the Post-Imperial Narrative
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
8 Jun 2021
Book presentation of Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker) & Olof Heilo (Speaker)
31 May 2021
Die literarische Verortung der post-imperialen Erzählung: Istanbul im Spannungsfeld zwischen östlicher Vergangenheit und westlicher Zukunft
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
21 Apr 2021
“Der türkische Aufbruch in die Moderne? Mobilität und Stillstand in Peyami Safas Roman Fatih-Harbiye”
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
18 Mar 2021
Occidentalism and the Imagination of Self and Other in Peyami Safa’s Fatih-Harbiye
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
3 Mar 2021
Teaching
| 2023 | Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna: SE (Master seminar) "Moderne türkische Literatur"" |
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| 2023 | Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna: VO (lecture) "Aspekte the modernen türkischen Literatur" |
| 2022 | Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna: VO (lecture) "Aspekte the modernen türkischen Literatur" |
| 2021 | Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna: PS (bachelor seminar) „The Empire Strikes Back“: Post-imperiale Melancholie am Beispiel der türkischen Literatur |
| 2021 | TürkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ), University of Hamburg: VO (lecture) „Die Verortung Istanbuls im post-imperialen Roman“ (21.4.2021), within the lecture series „Stadtgeschichten. Urbane Zentren der Türkei im Wandel der Zeit |
| 2019 | Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna: VO (lecture) „Das Imperium schlägt zurück: Verhandlungen zwischen osmanischer Vergangenheit und nationaler Gegenwart in der türkischen Literatur“ (9.10.2019), within the lecture series „Türkeibezogene Forschung in Österreich“ |
| 2017 | Summer School in Labin, Croatia: VO (lecture), „Postimperiale Lektüren: Der Osmanische und Habsburgische Mythos“ (23.9.2017), at the summer school „Verflechtungen und Interferenzen im zentraleuropäischen Raum. Kroatisch-Österreichische Sommerschule“ [Interrelations and interferences in Central Europe. Croatian-Austrian summer school], 20.9.-24.9.2017 in Labin, Croatia. |
Narrating neurodiversity: the autism spectrum in literature
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
Oct 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Between Europe and Empire: Imagining Self and Other in Early Republican Literature
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
21 Sep 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
In quest for "huzur": early republican Turkey and the legacy of empire
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
26 May 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Images of Empire in early republican Turkey
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
2 Dec 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Occidentalism and the Imagination of Self and Other in the Post-Imperial Narrative
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
8 Jun 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Book presentation of Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker) & Olof Heilo (Speaker)
31 May 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Narrated Empires. Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker) & Olof Heilo (Speaker)
6 May 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Die literarische Verortung der post-imperialen Erzählung: Istanbul im Spannungsfeld zwischen östlicher Vergangenheit und westlicher Zukunft
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
21 Apr 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Der türkische Aufbruch in die Moderne? Mobilität und Stillstand in Peyami Safas Roman Fatih-Harbiye”
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
18 Mar 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Occidentalism and the Imagination of Self and Other in Peyami Safa’s Fatih-Harbiye
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
3 Mar 2021
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Die Geburt des Rechtspositivismus aus dem Zerfall der politischen Ordnung. Kelsen und die Reine Rechtslehre
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker) & Christine Magerski (Speaker)
28 Apr 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Occidentalist Discourses in Turkish Literature and Politics after 1980
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
31 Jan 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Melancholy and Memory in Literature, with a Special Focus on Essays by Sema Kaygusuz
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
3 Nov 2018
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Wien und Istanbul: Metropolen im postimperialen Vergleich
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
8 Dec 2017
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Europas Türkei: Ein diskursgeschichtlicher Überblick
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
22 Oct 2017
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Sultan Abdülaziz´ Reise nach Europa 1867 - mehr als eine territoriale Grenzüberschreitung
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
29 Sep 2017
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Istanbul: eine melancholische Stadt im Kontext des osmanischen Mythos
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
19 Mar 2016
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Melancholie in der Literatur als Ausdruck des Habsburgischen und Osmanischen Mythos
Johanna Chovanec (Speaker)
11 Dec 2015
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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