İpek Şahinler

Publications

Guest Editor

“Queer Turkish and Ottoman Literature” Special Issue. Culture, Theory and Critique (full issue in print in Dec 2025)

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Multilingual Wor(l)dings in Contemporary Turkish-Cypriot Poetry” Middle Eastern Literatures. (forthcoming 2025) pp. 18-30
  • “Queer’s Meanings in Turkey” in Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey. Eds Isabel Davis and Kumru Toktamis. New York: Peter Lang. (forthcoming 2025) pp. 44-60
  • “Baroque Cross-Dressers in the Orient: Severo Sarduy and Pierre Loti” Chapter IX in Life Writing, Representation and Identity. Edited by Mukul Chaturvedi. Oxford: Routledge. April 2024. pp.136-156  
  • “Baroque Cross-Dressers in the Orient: Severo Sarduy and Pierre Loti” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Vol 44. No 4. December 2021. pp.148-163
  • “Tante Rosa ve Düş(üş) Kavramı, ya da Tante Rosa’nın Queer Düşüş Sanatı” (Tante Rosa and the Notion of Failure, or Tante Rosa’s “Queer Art of Failure”). KaosQ+, Vol8. 2020. pp-102-110

Book Reviews

  • “Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University” Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, Vol.20, March 2020

Poetry

  • “Sınırlar/Fronteras” Duvardaki Delik. Spring 2025 Issue: Volume 7. Nicosia, Cyprus. Print

Public Scholarship & Newspaper Articles

  • “Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar ve Suat’ın [Queer] Mektubu” Varlık Dergisi. Nov 2024. Print
  • “Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal” World Literature Today. 6 Aug 2024. Web“Angela Davis Teksas’ta Konuştu: Siyah Güç Hareketi, Filistin ve İnsan Hakları” Bianet. 28 Oct 2023. Web
  • “Letting a Wild Ride be a Wild Ride: a Conversation with Amy Spangler” World Literature Today. 6 July 2023. Web
  • “Teaching ‘Wild Things’ in America” NICHE—Nouvelle initiative in Canadienne en histoire de l’environnement. 23 June 2022. Web
  • “Ulusal Edebiyatın Bahçesine Sızmış Queer Bir Köstebek: Hüseyin Rahmi” (A Queer Mole in Turkish Literary Canon’s Garden) Litera Journal. 25 June 2021. Web
  • “Ulusal Feminist Yazınları Ulusötesi Queer Yazınsallıklar Olarak Yeniden Okumak.” (Rereading National Feminist Narratives as Transnational Queer Textualities) KaosQ+, 2020. Print
  • “Yoksul Queer Çalışmaları Nedir?” (What is Poor Queer Studies?) Birikim. Ağustos 2020, Print
  • “Queer Latin Amerika Sineması”. (Queer Latin American Cinema) Bianet. 5 Jul 2019. Web
  • “Osmanlı’nın İstanbulu ve Juan Goytisolo’nun İstanbul’u”. (The Ottoman Istanbul and Juan Goytisolo’s Istanbul) K24. 25 April 2019. Web.
  • “Cuarón’un Roma’sı ve Çeper Tarihlerin Döngüselliği” (Cuarón’s Roma and the Circularity of Peripheral Cultures) Bianet. 22 Dec 2018. Web.
  • “Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar İtalyanca’da” (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar is Now in Italian). Sabitfikir. 18 Feb 2015. Web.
  • “Gezi’den Çıkan Kitaplar” (Books about the Gezi Protest). Bianet. 27 July 2013. Web
  • “Gezi’den Çıkan Melodiler” (Melodies from the Gezi Protest). Bianet. 17 Aug 2013. Web

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Edited Books