Deniz Gündoğan
İbrişim, PhD. 

I am an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. I specialize in cultural trauma and memory studies, postcolonial theory, Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia, and the global Middle East, with an emphasis on environmental / blue humanities. A Fulbright alumna, I received my PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and later held a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sabancı University, leading a major project on climate witnessing and trauma in Mediterranean literary and visual cultures.

 

My research explores how contemporary Anglophone literature, and the arts mobilize ecological imagination as counter-memory, tracing the environmental afterlives of imperial, colonial and postcolonial violence. My work has appeared in journals including The Journal of World Literature, Memory Studies, Memory Studies Review, Safundi, and Scrutiny2, as well as in edited volumes such as The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, Mapping World Anglophone Studies, and Subaltern World Studies and World Literature in and for Pandemic Times.

 

I served as Grant Writing Coordinator and Management Committee member for the COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (2021-2025). In 2026, I received the Science Academy Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) in the field of Literature. I am currently completing my monograph on witnessing, trauma and the environment in Anglophone world literature while teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on literature and the environment, climate change narratives, and trauma studies in the age of the Anthropocene.

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