About Me

I am a literary scholar specializing in cultural trauma and memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone and Middle Eastern literatures, ecofeminism, and the environmental humanities. A Fulbright Fellow, I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. From 2021 to 2023, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sabancı University, where I led a research project on artistic and literary representations of Anthropocene trauma in the Mediterranean.

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I am currently an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. I previously served as Grant Writing Coordinator and Management Committee member for the COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change. My research explores how Anglophone world literature engages questions of trauma, memory, and environmental justice across the Global South, with particular attention to relational, ecological, and decolonial forms of witnessing.

 

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.

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I am the author of two books, Gaflet: Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları (Metis, 2019) and Travma ve Anlatı (Livera, 2024). I am currently completing my first English-language monograph, Toward a Slow Trauma in World Literature, and was awarded the 2026 Young Scientist Award in Literature by the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi).

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Alongside my academic research, I am committed to public humanities and to fostering dialogue between academia and wider audiences. I host the weekly radio program Ecocosmopolitan on Apaçık Radio, one of Istanbul's leading independent radio stations, where I bring conversations on literature, memory, ecology, and culture into the public sphere.

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Gaflet: Modern Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları (2019, Metis).
Travma ve Anlatı (2024, Livera): 
 

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