Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu

Dr. Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu is an Associate Teaching Professor and serves as the Undergraduate Program Director at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at Florida International University. Within her role, she teaches a range of courses, including but not limited to Gender Violence, Global Women's Writing, Gender and Genocide, Feminist Theory, and Women’s Voices Under Attack: Navigating Backlash in Europe and the U.S. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Moura-Koçoğlu is a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) affiliated faculty member. She actively engages in the design and implementation of global COIL initiatives in partnership with universities in Brazil, Mexico, Türkiye, and Canada to foster cross-cultural education and international exchange.

Dr. Moura-Koçoğlu is a Co-PI on the U.S. Mission Türkiye Grant promoting gender-inclusive curriculum in the Turkish earthquake region through the project “Breaking Gender Barriers through STEAM Education.” She earned a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship in Atrocity Prevention (2023-24).

Dr. Moura-Koçoğlu earned her Ph.D. in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and Cultures from the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany.

LINKEDIN:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmmoura/

Areas of Expertise

• Gender Violence and Trauma
• Indigenous Feminism
• Post-colonial Literary Studies
• Women and Genocide
• Online Violence against Women and Girls

Publications (selection)

Moura-Koçoğlu, Michaela. “To Carry Pain, to Heal through Ceremony: Indigenous Women’s Standpoint in Indigenous Australian and Canadian Literatures.” The Ruptured Commons, special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 169-188. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34172

Moura-Koçoğlu, Michaela. “Global Student Projects as a Catalyst for Social Engagement: Findings from a Brazilian-American Collaboration.” The Global Impact Exchange: A Quarterly Publication of Diversity Abroad, July 2021.

Moura-Koçoğlu, Michaela. “Decolonizing Gender Roles in Pacific Women’s Writing: Indigenous Feminist Theories and the Reconceptualization of Women’s Authority.” Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 11, no. 2, July 2017, pp. 239–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpx015

Moura-Koçoğlu, Michaela. Narrating Indigenous Modernities: Transcultural Dimensions in Contemporary Māori Literature. Brill, 2011. Cross/Cultures Series, vol. 141. https://brill.com/view/title/27945