Conferences

“Between Life and Non-Life: The Temporal Cycles of Storied Matter in Eco- and Bioart.” Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art and Science. Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovakia. September 9–13 2025. Co-speaker with Tuçe Erel.

“Vibrancy in New Materialisms: Bridging Differences.” ISHPSSB: Meeting of International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Porto, Portugal, July 20–25, 2025. Co-speaker with Z. Gizem Yılmaz.

“The Agency of the Portrait in Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’.” 17th IDEA Conference. Fırat University, Elazığ, Türkiye. May 7–9, 2025.

“Aural Agency: Diving and New Ecologies.” 10th EASLCE Symposium: Sea More Blue: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Blue Ecopoetics. University of Perpignan, France. June 17–20, 2024. Co-speaker with Z. Gizem Yılmaz.

“Kinship Materialities: Reading Eco- and Bio-art as Storied Matter.” 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century. Cappadocia University, Nevşehir, Türkiye. May 20–22, 2024.

“Finetuning the Old, Embracing the New: Tackling the Future Challenges of English Studies.” 16th IDEA Conference. Cappadocia University, Nevşehir, Türkiye. April 24–26, 2024.

“Mansplainer, Gaslighter, and Microaggressor: Lord Byron in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein.” 16th IDEA Conference. Cappadocia University, Nevşehir, Türkiye. April 24–26, 2024.

“Dönüş(tür)mek ve Hibritleşme: Gotik Uyarlamalarda Posthüman Dönüş.” 6. Uluslararası Sinema ve Felsefe Sempozyumu. Sinefilozofi Dergisi, Sinema ve Felsefe Derneği. CERModern, Ankara, Türkiye. December 8–10, 2023.

“Repeating the Gothic, Variegating the Horror: Woman in Black as Novel, Play, and Film.” Theatre and Drama Studies Conference II: Adaptation, Appropriation, & Translation. Online. December 8–10, 2023.

“What the ‘Post’ in ‘the Posthuman’ Means for Literature and the Humanities.” 8th BAKEA Symposium. Marmara University, İstanbul, Türkiye. November 01–03, 2023.

“Beşerî Bilimleri Yeniden Düşünmek: Disiplinlerarası Köprüler Kurarak Çoğalmak.” Söylem Filoloji Sempozyumu. Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Didim, Türkiye [Online]. October 08–10, 2023. Co-presenter with Z. Gizem Yılmaz.

“Posthumanizing the Theatrical Narrative: Şule Ateş’s DigitalLAB Performance.” 1st UTAD Conference: Origins. TED University, Ankara, Türkiye. September 14–16, 2023.

“Oyuncak Şiddet, Delilik ve Ekofobi.” The International Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference on Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts. The Department of English Language and Literature, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Türkiye. [Online] October 20–22, 2021.

“’The Wand Chooses the Wizard’: The Breakdown of the Human/Nonhuman Quandary in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” The 14th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English. Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Türkiye. [Online]. October 06–08, 2021.

“Reworking Communication in the ‘Body = Home’ Equation: Aleister Crowley’s ‘The Violinist’.” 7th International BAKEA Conference: Home. Jointly hosted by Departments of English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature and French Language and Literature in the Faculty of Science and Letters, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Türkiye. [Online]. September 16–18, 2021.

“Mimetic Interplay between Posthuman Art and Theory.” Posthuman Mimesis Conference, as part of Homo mimeticus Project. KU Leuven. Belgium. [Online]. May 20–22, 2021. Co–presenter with Tuçe Erel.

“Diseased Bodies Entangled: Literary and Cultural Crossroads of Posthuman Narrative Agents.” Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture Conference. Cappadocia University, Nevşehir, Türkiye. [Online]. January 13–15, 2021. Co–presenter with Şafak Horzum.

“Are We Posthuman Yet?: Mind/Body Dichotomy in James Tiptree Jr.’s ‘The Girl Who Was Plugged In’.” 10th International IDEA Conference. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye. April 14–16, 2016. Presenter.

“’The Memory Remains’: Dystopian Love in Black Mirror in the Episode of ‘The Entire History of You’.” Hacettepe University Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies International Graduate Conference: “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English.” Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye. March 15–16, 2016.

“Eccentric Crime–Solvers: A Comparative Study of Sherlock Holmes and Behzat Ç.” Hacettepe University 50th Year Conference: “British and Turkish Literary and Cultural Interactions.” Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye. May 12–14, 2015.

“Reconfiguring the Cyborg: Gendered Digital Ecologies in Cole Drumb’s PostHuman.” XXXVI Annual Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo–American Studies (APEAA): “(Re)Shaping Humanities: New Ways of Reading, New Forms of Representation.” University of Trás–os–Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal. March 26–28, 2015.

“Framing Nature in Console Games.” VI European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) and IX Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) Conference: “Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning.” University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. April 29–May 03, 2014.

“Playfulness of Time and Reality: History Re–Made in British Science–Fiction.” 3rd International BAKEA (Western Cultures and Literatures Research) Symposium. Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Türkiye. October 09–11, 2013.

“Animal as the Subject/Object/Abject in Hollywood.” V European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment Conference (EASLCE): Natura Loquens: “Eruptive Dialogues, Disruptive Discourses.” University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. June 27–30, 2012.