Dr Can Yalcinkaya is a Senior Lecturer and Macquarie Academy Fellow (Faculty of Arts). He is a researcher, multidisciplinary artist, editor, curator, translator, and musician, whose work is placed at the intersection of scholarship, art and activism. He has been serving as the Course Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communications since 2026. 

Can co-founded the anti-racist Muslim metal band, Hazeen with Dr Safdar Ahmed, and performed in art venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cement Fondu. Hazeen was featured in an ABC Arts Documentary titled "You See Monsters" (dir. Tony Jackson, 2017). With Hazeen, Can performed and presented work at Documenta Fifteen (Germany) and Mona Foma (Australia). Most recently, Can has been awarded a Creative Australia grant to produce his creative research/non-fiction graphic novel "Taksim: Our records, our selves"

Key Research and Teaching Areas: transnational media, diaspora studies, film studies, critical and cultural theory, gender studies, multimodal storytelling, arts-based research, comics and graphic novels.