Love and Literature

In this episode of the Love & Literature podcast, host Melinda Karaca talks with Julide Sezer about Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. This book has recently also been turned into a series. Julide Eda Sezer is an independent researcher who is interested in critical posthumanism, new materialism, decolonization, and postcolonialism, and explores the complex and intertwined relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Her thesis, Sustaining Resistance, Cultivating Liberation: The Enduring Bond of Rooted-Resistance-Companionship between Palestinians and Olive Trees, which received the Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize in 2023, embodies these concerns. Beyond research, Sezer has extensive experience in project and conference management, and in facilitating interdisciplinary reading groups and collaborative initiatives that bring together feminist, ecological, and decolonial perspectives. These spaces foster intellectual companionship, critical reflection, and the cultivation of knowledge in relation rather than separation.One of these spaces includes her YouTube channel, on which she provides an intellectual and insightful platform to explore various themes. The name of the channel is Julide'nin oyun odasi. Thank you, Julide Sezer, and thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Love & Literature podcast, host Melinda Karaca talks to the multilingual educator Maider Muñoz Bujedo. Maider Muñoz Bujedo is an experienced educator with a background in Translation and Interpretation (German and English). Her career has taken her across Germany, the United States, India, China, Costa Rica, Chile, and Spain, teaching in various classroom settings. Currently, she is serving as a Bilingual Specialist at a Waldorf school. The philosophy of the Waldorf schools and its workings are being explored in this episode. Thank you all for listening, and thank you, Maider Muñoz Bujedo.

In this episode of the Love & Literature podcast, host Melinda Karaca examines The Wife of Bath’s Tale, a narrative from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, with Noralia Karaca.Noralia Karaca is a second-year literature student at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, whose academic interests focus particularly on Medieval English literature.In this episode, she provides an analytical overview of the tale and explores its central themes with a special focus on the question "what is it that women desire?". Thank you Noralia Karaca and thank you all for listening

In today's episode of the Love & Literature podcast, Melinda Karaca (your host) will discuss the role of AI and love with Professor Stephen M. Whitehead. Dr. Stephen M Whitehead finished his doctorate at Leeds Beckett University in 1996. He is a sociologist and international expert on men, masculinities, gender identity, and education. He has written many books on these aforementioned topics and is still writing. In this episode, we will particularly take a look at the role of AI and how this influences love relationships and societies as a whole. Thank you Professor and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode of the Love & Literature podcast, Melinda Karaca (your host) will be discussing the art of reading with Professor Steven G. Kellman. Professor Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has been teaching and researching at the university since 1976, and his research of interest includes comparative literature, prose fiction, literary translingualism, film, biography, and modern and contemporary literature. In this episode, the Professor will be sharing his knowledge on the matter of translingualism, what it entails, how it works, and what it brings to the world of literature. In addition to this, he will also be sharing more about the love affair between author and reader. In fact, a reader's engagement often extends beyond merely interacting with a work. Comprehending this relationship of author and reader allows us to become more acquainted with literature. Thank you Professor Kellman, and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode of the Love & Literature podcast, Melinda Karaca (your host) will be going through love advice from Social Psychologist Professor Sinclair. Professor Sinclair is an associate professor at Louisiana State University, conducting research and giving lectures. Her experienced multi-method approaches showcase her passion for science with impact and embrace her participatory action research in particular. One of her well-known contributions is her research on the Romeo and Juliet effect, which is something that will be explored in this episode. Thank you professor Sinclair, and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode of the Love & Literature podcast, Melinda Karaca (your host) will be going through love advice from Dostoyevsky's White Nights. Published in 1848, the book is set in the cold, dreamlike Russian city of St. Petersburg and follows the story of a young man. Whether he should be guided by love or his own feelings remains to be seen. The feelings of the young man, whose name is unknown, do not always coincide with those of the other characters. The search for human connection, hope, and loneliness is constant, and the narrative directly interrogates the moral values ​​of both the characters and the reader. The story is thus an interrogation of the dynamics of love and its implications. Dostoyevsky makes his readers think and reflect on life through the characters. It is a romantic yet realistic view of human love.