Carlos Kong is a joint-PhD candidate in Art History at Princeton University and in Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. His dissertation, Postmigrant Fabulation: Archival Afterlives of Turkish German Migration in Contemporary Art and Film, examines how contemporary artists and filmmakers excavate and imaginatively remediate archival materials from Turkish German migration histories in performative, photographic, and moving-image artworks. His broader research on contemporary art, film, and literature engages with intersections of (post-)migration, language, archives, and affect, often within the transcultural and geopolitical contexts of Germany and Turkey. He was previously a guest lecturer at JGU Mainz, where he taught a seminar on Turkish German cinema, and has received fellowships from Fulbright and DAAD. His writing has been published in various books, including Itamar Gov: Of Rejected Citrons and Phantom Limbs (backbonebooks, 2024), Kleine Formen – widerständige Formen? Postmigration Intermedial (Königshausen & Neumann, 2023), Archives on Show – A Curatorial Glossary (HKW/Archive Books, 2022), Aykan Safoğlu: I’ll be your mirror (argobooks, 2022), Lena Henke. I Don’t Love Berlin, Crazy City (Walther König, 2022), and Anna Ehrenstein: Tools for Conviviality (Distanz, 2021). He is co-founder and editor of The Public Review, a digital publication for long-form art criticism, and regularly contributes to art magazines and curatorial programs.