This fellowship pushed the frontiers of the humanities research that cuts across varied disciplines forward in numerous ways. Two invited talks on Climate Trauma, Gender and Contemporary Turkish Fiction in Turkey shed new light onto environmental and literary scholarship in Turkey in and beyond academia.The blogs, workshops and creative events conducted by the Fellow are promoting non-Western cultures and their study into memory studies as well as an analysis of Anthropocene memory beyond Euro/Anglo centric frameworks. This MSCA allowed the Fellow to develop agility and expertise with many different research methodologies and promote best practices to the larger communities and scholars. The fellow was invited to join the Editorial Board Member of Memory Studies Review Journal (BRILL). She will publish one article and a theme based special issue. The fellow was also invited to be the Management Committee Member (MC) and the grant writer coordinator of the COST Action CA20105: Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (SlowMemo) (2021-2025). The fellow is actively participating in the Transformation of Environment Working group and transferring her prior MSCA expertise and knowledge to the current Cost Action. Going beyond the MSCA project, the fellow signed a book contract for her current book project entitled “Toward a Slow Witnessing in World Literature: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide” with Routledge, Routledge Comparative Literature Series (expected to be published in late 2025).
Impact: In order to enhance the public outreach and impact of the Action and disseminate the research findings among advocacy groups and the general public, the fellow contacted civil society organizations and independent research institutes such as the SALT Research Institute, Orient Institute Istanbul, Memory Center, KIRAATHANE (the first independent literature house in Istanbul), Association for Monitoring, and Center for Spatial Justice (MAD) in Turkey to offer public lectures. To this end, she wrote popular articles based on her research for the Turkish online newspapers T24 and K24. The fellow also published essays and blog pieces on popular networks such as Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement. The researcher presented her scientific findings at the worldwide leading academic conferences including conventions of the Modern Language Association (US) the Annual American Comparative Literature Convention (US) European Society of Comparative Literature, the MESA Annual Meeting (US), ESEH Conference (Bern, Switzerland) and the Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (UK, Newcastle). Due to her scholarly. achievements in research and d in particular her expertise in her field, the researcher has been invited to join the editorial board of an acclaimed journal, "The Memory Studies Review" and has been invited to serve as peer-reviwer to the top ranking journals, such as PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, C21 Journal of 21st Century Writings. The researcher widely contributed to the SU Gender's the Purple Certificate Program, which aims to contribute to the elimination of gender-based discrimination by raising awareness on gender equality among high school teachers. In this context, the researcher conducted significant work with high school teachers in Istanbul to promote gender awareness and gender equality in schools, classrooms, class activities, and educational materials. Within the scope of the Program, the researcher developed an educational material and class module on climate change and gender. Purple geared at students at faculties of education, civil society organizations and high school students. Toward the end of the completion of her fellowship, the researcher has been offered a full time assistant professor position at Kadir Has University, one of the top-ranking private research universities in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been also invited to offer part time classes at the department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogazici University, a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently, she is working as an assistant professor of literature at Kadir Has University and offering part time courses at Bogazici University.
