Hi, I'm Esen!

Where Literature Meets the City

Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Yaşar University. My research explores the intersections of comparative literature, memory studies, ecocriticism, and critical urban theory. I'm passionate about understanding how literature imagines and reimagines urban spaces, ecological relations, and collective memory.

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Research Areas

My work spans several interconnected fields, bridging literary analysis with spatial and ecological thought.

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Comparative Literature

Exploring literary traditions across cultures and languages, examining how different literary traditions engage with shared themes of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity.

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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.

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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?

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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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