Sasha Dilan Krugman

Sasha Dilan Krugman is a recent PhD from the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in Turkish cinema and military nationalism, Sasha’s work predominantly focuses on gendered depictions on-screen, nationalist interventions, and television studies. Her dissertation, "Re-Watching Turkey: Gender, Nation, and Popular Culture, " centralizes the concept of the soldier-hero, examining it within a militarized archive, history, and visual timeline to explore the enmeshment of militarized nationalism and representations of gender. Although her work primarily focuses on body politics and the impact of nationalism on-screen, she has a broad range of interests, having published works on the relationship between television, disability studies, animation, and critical theory.

Sasha is a member of the adjunct faculty at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Raritan Valley Community College as part of their Returning & Incarcerated Student Education Program (RISE).

In her free time, Sasha is an avid television viewer and highly recommends a BluTV subscription to anyone interested.

Sasha firmly believes that if one person’s trash is another’s treasure, then it is our scholarly responsibility to dig through the proverbial wasteland of “bad” cinema and television in hopes of bringing theories of film and media criticism to task on a broader range of content than previously possible. Yes, you can write about that, and no, no one actually says you can’t.