Publications
My research publications organized by year. For a complete list, see my Google Scholar profile.
2024
Letter to Kwe / Kwe ekedetle niye -- Letter to my future self / Gelecekteki kendime mektup
A collaborative work combining essay and poetry that explores themes of displacement, colonialism in academic institutions, and indigenous language reclamation. The piece features components in English, Dene, and Turkish.
2022
Ragged Men on the Move: Poverty, Inertia and Friendship in Latife Tekin's Swords of Ice (1989/tr.2007)
This article examines the relationship between two protagonists from Istanbul's impoverished outskirts in Latife Tekin's novel Swords of Ice. The study explores how friendship represents a transgression of class boundaries and socio-political norms, arguing that the well-tuned friendship between the...
2019
German-Turkish Rap in the Context of Transculturality
The article examines how rap music gained global popularity while exploring German-Turkish rap's emergence in the 1990s. It critiques the application of 'hybridity' as a theoretical framework, arguing this concept reinforces essentialist ideas of culture and constrains artists to fixed...