Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Ipek is a doctoral student of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, with minors in Middle Eastern Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. She researches the intersections between 20th century Middle Eastern and Latin American Literatures from the perspective of queer theor(ies). Originally a translator from Istanbul who has worked with romance languages, she received her MSc degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. Alongside her studies, she delivers seminars in different cultural venues of Istanbul about what she conceptualizes as “müphem Türkçe edebiyat” (queer Turkish literature) and teaches Turkish as a second language.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Pop Culture
Queer/LGBT Studies
Transnationalism
Turkish
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Turkey
Spain
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Queer Turkish Literature; Queer Middle Eastern Wri
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
Latin (intermediate)
Ottoman (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Comparative Literature
| University of Texas at Austin
MSci
| 2017
| Comparative Literature
| University of Edinburgh
BA
| 2014
| Social and Political Sciences
| Sabanci University
Abstracts
How is Queer Understood in Turkey?
“Before” Homosexuality in Ottoman Literature
Trans(lating) Lexicons of Queerness in Ottoman-Turkish
