Selen Aktari-Sevgi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature, the director of the MA program in American Culture and Literature and of the Centre for Irish Studies in Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Her recent publication is a book chapter titled “Liminality and Affective Mobility in Anne Enright’s The Green Road” in Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge, 2019). Her main research interests are contemporary Irish, British, and American fiction, gender studies, memory and trauma studies, and theories of affect. She is a member of EFACIS (The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies), ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English), EAAS (European Association for American Studies), IDEA (English Language and Literature Research Association of Turkey), the board member of ASAT (American Studies Association of Turkey) and the editor of JAST (Journal of American Studies of Turkey).
