Muge Yuce

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Politics of Humor, Memory, Affect, Performance, Gender&Sexuality

Muge Yuce is a Ph.D candidate in Cultural Studies. She completed her Master’s degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University. Her master thesis seeks to incorporate affect theories and feminist pedagogies into feminist humor studies.

Her current research concentrates on the contemporary landscape of humor in Turkey. Muge aims to explore how authoritarian arrangements of displacement have given way to acts and practices of counterpublics in and through comedy spaces and to question how the emerging styles of political humor are shaped and informed by collective memory and trauma.

Selected Publications

Web Publications:

“Reimagining Feminist Stand-up Post-Nanette.” In Media Res, a media commons project. http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/reimagining-feminist-stand-post-nanette

“Türkiye stand up’ının ötekileri: Politik mizah ve kadınlar”
(English Translation: “Others of Stand-up in Turkey: Political Humor and Women”)
Çatlak Zemin. https://catlakzemin.com/turkiye-stand-upinin-otekileri-politik-mizah-ve-kadinlar/

“Bazı feminist patırtılar: İptal kültürü, politik doğrucular ve duyar kasanlar” (English Translation: “Feminist Complaint: Cancel Culture, PC Culture and the Woke”)
Çatlak Zemin. https://catlakzemin.com/bazi-feminist-patirtilar-iptal-kulturu-politik-dogrucular-ve-duyar- kasanlar/

Grants and Fellowships

Center for Humanities Research (CHR) Summer 2025 Doctoral Fellowship
The 2025 Suzanne Scott Constantine Award
College of Humanities & Social Sciences Dean’s Office Grant for the 2025 National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency

Courses Taught

GLOA 101: Introduction to Global Affairs (George Mason
University)

WMST 200: Introduction to Women's Studies (George Mason
University)

WMST100: Global Representations of Women (George Mason
University)

WGSS-150: Women's Voices Through Time (American University)

Education

M.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University (2020)

Recent Presentations

“The AI of Attractions: Mechanical Turks and AI-Generated Comedy.” Cultural Studies Association Conference at California Institute of the Arts–Valencia, California, May 2025

“Jokes That Haunt: Humor as Counter-Memory and Ephemeral Archive of Resistance.” Critical Humor Studies Association Conference at Pomona College, April 2025

“Humor at the Edge of Humanity: AI-generated Comedy and Boundaries of the Imaginable.” Center for Humanities Research 4th Annual Symposium. George Mason University, April 2025

“Feminist Cartographies: The Art and Ethics of Navigation in Özge Samancı's Graphic Memoirs” Women Who Create: The Feminine and the Arts. London-Based Art Research Center at University of Cambridge, March 2025.

“Nanette: An Aporetic Manifestation of Feminist Humor,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Online Conference, March 2021

“Metacomedy and Its Gendered Implications in the Trump and #metoo Era,” Cultural Studies Association Conference, May 2021