Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim

Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Core Humanities Program at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. She specializes in cultural trauma and memory studies, postcolonial theory, Anglophone literatures—particularly Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East—and the environmental and blue humanities. A Fulbright Fellow, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sabancı University, where she led a major project on climate witnessing in the literary and visual cultures of the Mediterranean. 

Deniz’s research examines how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literatures mobilize the ecological imagination as a form of counter-memory, tracing affective and archival residues of colonial and decolonial histories across fractured geographies. Her work has appeared in Journal of World Literature, Safundi, Memory Studies, Scrutiny2, and in edited volumes including Mapping World Anglophone Studies, Subaltern Women’s Narratives, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, and Ecologies of Turkish Literature and Film. She also serves on the Management Committee of the EU-funded COST Action project Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change. She is currently completing her first monograph, Slow Trauma and Environment in Anglophone World Literature, and developing a new project that explores how trees and forests function as living archives of ecological, historical, and ancestral memory in post-1990s Anglophone African literatures and arts, with an emphasis on multimodal forms of storytelling.