About

Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim received her BA in English Literature from Istanbul University and earned her two MA degrees in Gender Studies and Literature respectively from Istanbul University and Central European University As a recipient of Fulbright PhD Scholarship, she completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. From 20121 August to 2023 September, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sabanci University, at the Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). Funded under Horizon Europe (EU) her project entitled “Gender and Trauma in the Anthropocene: A Change of Feminist Perspective on North Africa and Global Middle East” (2021 August- 2023 August) lies at the nexus of literary studies, gender, and environmental humanities. Departing from the historical perspective on North African and Middle Eastern environments (oil, water, and land), this project brings together the intertwined forms of gender-based violence and environmental violence in twenty and twenty-first century literature.

 As a comparatist literary scholar, Deniz specializes in cultural trauma and memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, 20th and 21st century literature, ecofeminism, and environmental humanities. Her research focuses on how contemporary literature addresses questions of racial and social justice, transcultural memory studies, theories of collective responsibility, and the environmental humanities. In particular, her work examines climate trauma and climate mourning in world literature, film, and the visual arts from the Middle East and Africa as well as their Anglophone diasporas. Deniz’s research has been supported by the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action, Fulbright-IIE, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars, the Institute for World Literature (IWL) and several Washington University fellowships. She is the co-author of Gaflet: Modern Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları (English: Negligence: The Sexist Nerve Endings of Modern Literature in Turkish, Metis Publishing, 2019). Her work has appeared in journals such as European Review, The Journal of World Literature (BRILL), Safundi, Intertexts: a Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection, Monograf, Notos, Varlık, Birikim, as well as edited volumes including The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma; Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film; Women’s Subaltern Studies Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies; Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers.

She is currently working on her monograph on the poetics and politics of ‘slow witnessing’ in Anglophone world literatures (under contract with Routledge; Routledge Comparative Literature series).