Özge Karagöz
Özge Karagöz is a PhD candidate specializing in global modern and contemporary art. Her research foregrounds the intertwined histories of the Middle East and Eurasia, joining recent efforts to chart the decentered global trajectory of twentieth-century art and visual culture beyond the West. Her research areas include postcolonial theory, transnational socialism, the history of emotions, subject formation, and gender. Currently, she is completing her dissertation, “Exchanging New Visions of Subjectivity: Modern Art and Postimperial State-Building across Interwar Turkey and Soviet Russia.” As an investigation of an early episode of Soviet exchanges in realist art and cinema with formerly Ottoman, newly independent, and majority Muslim nations, this study lays the historical groundwork for understanding later, Cold War-era examples of such exchanges. At the same time, this project offers a new way of thinking about the circulation of realist images between non-Western societies, illustrating how such images served as conduits for debating and articulating new visions of subjectivity across cultural, linguistic, and ideological boundaries. Research for this project received fellowship support from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the College Art Association, and the Paris Program in Critical Theory at Northwestern University.