Literary Dialogues: The World We Made: Cli-Fi In The 21st Century

Date: December 12, 2024 - Thursday

Time:20:00 – 21:00

Place: Online

Speaker:  Doç Dr. Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu

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About the Speaker: 

 Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu, PhD, is Associate Professor of English literature at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, specializing in contemporary British novel, climate change fiction, ecocriticism, posthumanism, green cultural studies, and gender studies. He obtained his PhD in English Literature from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 2018. A former TÜBİTAK Visiting Fellow at The University of British Columbia, he has written on such topics as ecogender, the posthuman body, nonhuman animals, climate change, postnatural environments, ecofeminism, postecology, and ecoaesthetics in contemporary fiction. Recently, he has contributed to the edited volumes Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes (Lexington Books, 2020), Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media (Routledge, 2022), The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (Routledge, 2023), and Post Green: Literature, Culture, and the Environment (Lexington Books, 2024). Yazgünoğlu has also published his Turkish monograph, İklimkurgu: İklim Değişikliği, Antroposen’in Poetikası ve Ekoeleştirel İzler ([Climate Fiction: Climate Change, the Poetics of the Anthropocene, and Ecocritical Traces], Çizgi Kitabevi, 2022).