Gizem Önal

Writing: • Blogging, copy and content writing, mostly on music, technology, art and literature • SEO content writing for e-commerce platforms • Published short stories and personal essays, and a limited edition chapbook Translation: • Literary translation of short stories and poems • Translation of academic papers, mainly in arts, letters, and humanities • Content translation for digital platforms Editing: • Edited short (non)fiction works, non-fiction books, booklets, and academic papers

• Proofread Fransız Devrimi'nin Sosyalist Tarihi [A Socialist History of the French Revolution] by Jean Jaurès

• Copyediting medical textbooks and the publishing house's website

• Project planning, organization, and implementation

• Participating in projects aimed at improving the life quality of underprivileged groups • Training in youth work

• Organizing and participating in international youth projects • International work environment • Experiential learning

• Selected as part of Sabancı University Civic Involvement Projects (CIP) and Citibank NGO Internship Programme • Work experience in Educational, and Measurement and Evaluation Departments • Responsibilities include data input, copywriting and editing educational pamphlets, and electronic organisatio

• Experience in local government administration in a wide range of offices

Activities and societies: FU Review Editorial Board, Welcome@FUBerlin Refugee Support Programme • Deutschlandstipendium holder • Courses include: Minor Modernists, The Modernists and Language, Creative (Non)Fiction, Narrative Theory, Network Narratives: The Poetics of Interconnectivity, Recent Fiction, Narration and Visuality, The Monstrous Screen, Critical Approaches to Digital Culture(s), Narrative, Ecology, and the Anthropocene

Grade: 8.4 (cum laude) Activities and societies: Erasmus Student Network Groningen, Groningen University Turkish Student Association (GUTSA) • One semester Erasmus+ Exchange • Received Erasmus grant • Completed the semester cum laude • Courses include: Philosophy of Arts; Analysis, Theory, and History of Classical Music; Analysis, Theory, and History of American Popular Music; Dutch 17th Century Art in a Global Context

• Full scholarship • Graduated summa cum laude (Class rank: 2) • Bachelor Thesis: “What is this, behind this veil”: Reading Plath through Julia Kristeva • Courses include: Humanities and Social Science Honors Seminar: Work and the Meaning of Life, Literature and Photography, Introduction to Theory and Criticism, Theory and Practice of Criticism, Romantic Poetry, Twentieth Century Poetry, Creative Writing

• Bachelor Thesis: Comparison of Administrative Systems in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World • Courses include: Political Sociology, Political Science, History of Political Thought, Political History, Turkish Political Life and Foreign Policy, International Politics and Economics, Urban Administration and Politics, Environmental Administration and Politics, International Environmental Politics