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, "The Soldier-Hero on Screen: The Making of Nationhood and Manhood in

Turkish Modernity"  traces the endurance of militarized masculinity across a century of Turkish cinema, television, and streaming platforms. By analyzing how state infrastructures, labor in media industries, and global platforms shape screen representations, I situate Turkish visual culture within broader debates on media transition, industry studies, and the public sphere.  

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, hoping to bring 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.