Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim

Dr. Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim is a literary scholar specializing in cultural trauma and memory studies, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone and Turkish literatures, and environmental humanities. As a Fulbright fellow, she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sabancı University, where she worked on her project exploring artistic and literary representations of climate trauma and climate grief in contemporary Turkey. Her research examines how global literature addresses trauma, memory, and issues of racial, social, and environmental justice within cross-cultural interactions in the Global South. Deniz’s work has been published in journals such as European Review, The Journal of World Literature, Memory Studies, and Safundi, as well as in edited volumes like The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma; Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film; Mapping World Anglophone Studies. She is the author of two books in Turkish: Gaflet: Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları (Metis, 2019) and Travma ve Anlatı (Livera, 2024). She is currently working on her first book monograph, titled Toward a Slow Wit(h)nessing in Anglophone World Literature, which will be published by Routledge as part of the Routledge Comparative Literature Series.