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Dr. Johanna Chovanec, B.A. MA

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johanna.chovanec@univie.ac.at

Winter term 2024

135031 PS Literary Theory (PS): Self and Other in the context of global interconnections

135044 PS "The world needs all types of minds": approaching autistic writing through a neurodiversity lens

Summer term 2024

141018 SE M5b - SE Modern Turkish Literature and Society

141222 VO M5b Aspects of Modern Turkish Literature

Winter term 2023

135044 PS Neurodiversity in literature: narrating the autism spectum

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. Article 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. 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.

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.

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., Aydin-Düzgit, S., Rumelili, B., & Königsbrun, R. (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., Rumelili, B., Aydin-Düzgit, S., Topal, A. E., & Gülmez, S. B. (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.

Chovanec, J., Aydin-Düzgit, S., Gülmez, S. B., Rumelili, B., & Topal, A. E. (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

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

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Nov 2022 → present

Academic third-party funded project staff

Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Jul 2018 → 31 Oct 2022

Researcher for the Horizon 2020 project "FEUTURE-The Future of EU-Turkey relations"

Sabanci University

İstanbul, Turkey

1 Sept 2016 → 31 Aug 2017

Scholarships and Awards

2018-2022	Doctoral fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
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)
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. 261–317

Die 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. 45-66

Auf 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. 15-25

M. 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.), 2019

Istanbul: 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., 2018

Postimperiale 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., 2017

Marlen 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""
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.