Research
My research explores how literature imagines and reimagines urban spaces, ecological relations, and collective memory. Working across languages and traditions, I investigate the intersections of comparative literature, memory studies, ecocriticism, and critical urban theory to understand the stories that shape our relationship with the world.
Comparative Literature
Exploring literary traditions across cultures and languages, examining how different literary traditions engage with shared themes of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity.
Memory Studies
Investigating how literature constructs, preserves, and transforms collective and individual memory, with particular attention to post-representational affect and embodied memory.
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Ecocriticism
Examining ecological imagination in contemporary literature, exploring how writers engage with environmental consciousness, posthumanism, and the relationship between human and non-human worlds.
Critical Urban Theory
Analyzing literary representations of the city, urban refugees, flânerie, and the right to the city in transnational fiction. How do novels reimagine urban space as a site of resistance and belonging?
Postcolonial Studies
Engaging with postcolonial theory to understand how literature from formerly colonized societies and diasporic communities challenges dominant narratives and imagines alternative futures.
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Ongoing Research
My current post-doctoral research focuses on the intersections of contemporary Turkish literature and critical posthumanism. I am exploring how Turkish women writers engage with ecological consciousness, non-human agency, and the entanglement of memory with landscape. This work builds on my earlier investigations into ecocriticism and memory studies, extending them into new theoretical terrain shaped by posthumanist and new materialist thought.
I am also continuing to develop my comparative work on literary representations of the city, examining how novels from different cultural traditions reimagine urban space as a site of resistance, belonging, and ecological possibility.