Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz

Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a PhD student at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research investigates avant-garde cinema, punk subcultures and counterculture in postmodernism through queer theory. She holds a BSc in Computer Science and a minor in Film and Television from Istanbul Bilgi University. She received her MA in Film Studies from University College Cork with the thesis entitled Baise Moi, Genre, Sexuality: A Critical Analysis of the Blurred Margins of Subjectivity and Cinematic Representation. She has played drums in various Turkey-based bands and most prominently the punk band she co-founded Secondhand Underpants. In addition to her academic work, she makes experimental and collage videos which have been displayed at gigs, conferences and workshops.
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