Merve Sarikaya-Şen is Associate Professor at American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara (Turkey). Her research interests are related to contemporary literatures in English with a specific focus on trauma, memory, diaspora, women’s, gender and sexuality studies. She has published articles and book chapters on William Makepeace Thackeray, T. S. Eliot, Grace Nichols, Ford Madox Ford, Tom McCarthy, Aminatta Forna, Hanya Yanagihara, NoViolet Bulawayo, Arundhati Roy, Bernardine Evaristo and Sally Rooney. Her recent publications include “Reconfiguring Feminism: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other” (2021); “A Relentless Quest for a Paradoxical Normality: Sally Rooney’s Normal People” (2021); and “Diversity, Singularity, Re-Enchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” (2020). She is currently working on a research project with the working title “The Ethics and Poetics of Gendered Violence in Contemporary Women’s Writing” as a visiting scholar at Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University.

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