Cüneyt Çakırlar

Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His current research practice focuses on sexuality studies, global visual cultures, and transnational horror studies. Çakırlar has taught on queer arts and film theory at UCL (UK), Boğaziçi University (Turkey) and Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey). His articles appeared in various journals including Critical Arts, Cineaction, New Review of Film and Television Studies,[in]Transition, and Screen. He co-edited a volume about cultures of sexual dissidence in contemporary Turkey, namely Cinsellik Muamması: Türkiye’de Queer Kültür ve Muhalefet / The Sexuality Conundrum: Queer Culture and Dissidence in Contemporary Turkey (2012), co-translated Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter (1993) into Turkish (2014), and co-authored Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (2023). Çakırlar has recently completed a British Academy project on global revivals of “folk horror” media, titled Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics (Liverpool University Press, 2025).