Nesrin YAVAŞ

Edebiyat Fakültesi, Amerikan Kültürü Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Amerikan Kültürü Ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı

Research areas: Social Sciences and Humanities, American Culture and Literature, Western Languages and Literatures, Philology

Nesrin Yavaş 2008 yılında Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı bölümünden doktora derecesini almıştır. Amerikan tiyatrosu, etnik Amerikan edebiyatı, çevreci edebiyat eleştirisi, iklim krizi ve edebiyat, Antroposen ve Amerikan Edebiyatı derslerini aktif olarak vermektedir. 2021 yılında In the Tracks of an Oxymoron: Magical Realism adlı kitabı Ege Üniversitesi yayın evinden çıkmıştır. 2022 yılında basılan Women's Worlds via Women's Words adlı kitapta bölüm yazarlığı yapmıştır.

Publications

John Fowles’s The Tree: A Precursor to the Plant Humanities (2026)
A THEATRICAL INACTION: CLIMATE CHANGE RISK, BUREAUCRATIC INERTIA, AND ETHICAL ABDICATION IN STEVE WATERS’S THE CONTINGENCY PLAN (2026)
No Trace of Humans: AI, Identity, and Responsibility in Emrah Bodur's Insanlardan Hicbir I.Z. Kalmis mi ki? (2026)
Black Women Poets Rewriting Independence: Counter-Narratives of the Fourth of July (2026)
“Ego-trips” versus Ecological Selves: A Deep Ecological Approach to Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale (2025)
CLIMATE CHANGE RISK NARRATIVES IN SCIENCE AND FICTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IPCC REPORTS AND ELIF SHAFAK’S HE ARE THE PEOPLE (2025)
Where the Earth Bleeds: Petromodernity, Petrocolonialim, and Indigenous Resistance in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit (2025)
Staging Relational Ethics: Salmon Is Everything as Ritual Performance (2025)
“The World’s Basic Brokenness”: Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia in Richard Powers’s Bewilderment (2025)
Aldo Leopold ve Rachel Carson'ın İzinde: Barbara Kingsolver'ın Bereketli Yaz Romanında Çevre Etiği ve Ekolojik Bilinç (2025)
BRIDGING WESTERN AND INDIGENOUS SCIENCES IN CHANTAL BILODEAU’S CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE PLAY SILA (2025)
IMAGINING CLIMATE FUTURES IN CONTEMPORARY TURKISH LITERATURE: A CRITICAL APPROACH TO BUKET UZUNER’S NOVEL HAVA (2025)
Before the ‘New’: Reclaiming Indigenous Relational Ontologies through Linda Hogan’s Memoir The Woman Who Watches Over the World (2025)
CLIMATE CHANGE RISK NARRATIVES IN SCIENCE AND FICTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IPCC REPORTS AND ELIF SHAFAK’S HE ARE THE PEOPLE (2025)
In the Footsteps of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson: Environmental Ethics: Environmental Ethics and Ecological Consciousness in Barabara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer (2025)
CLIMATE CHANGE RISK NARRATIVES IN SCIENCE AND FICTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IPCC REPORTS AND ELIF SHAFAK’S HE ARE THE PEOPLE (2025)
Where the Earth Bleeds: Petromodernity, Petrocolonialism, and Indigenous Resistance in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit (2025)
AVRASYA’DAN AMERİKAYA GÖÇLER: MELUNCAN TOPLUMUNA DAİR TEORİLER (2024)
Melungeon Identities: Search for Roots in N. Brent Kennedy's The Melungeons. The Resurrection of a Proud People (2024)
Barbara Kingsolver’ın Flight Behaviour Romanında İklim Değişikliği ve İklim Değişikliği İletişimi (2024)
Melungeon Identities: Search for Roots in N. Brent Kennedy's The Melungeons. The Resurrection of a Proud People (2024)
“Deep Ecology, Ecosophy, and Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale” (2023)
Turkish Climate Change Fiction (2023)
Safeguarding Palestinian Food Culture: A Case Study on Arab American Play Food and Fadwa (2022)
Black Women Defeated at the Nexus of Race, Class, and Gender (2022)
PROBLEMATIZING HOME, BELONGING AND IDENTITY IN BINA SHARIF’S MY ANCESTOR’S HOUSE: A TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH (2021)
In The Tracks of An Oxymoron: Magical Realism (2021)
NEEDLEWORK AS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL (2021)
From the Anatolian Panther to the Florida Panther: Nature as Sacred Force in Faruk Duman's And A Leopard Sadly Disappears and Linda Hogan's Power (2019)
Ecocriticism and Magical Realism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest (2018)
Transnational Subjectivities in Jhumpra Lahiri's Short Fiction (2018)
ECOCRITICISM AND MAGICAL REALISM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA STHROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST (2018)
ECOCRITICISM AND MAGICAL REALISM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA’S THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST (2018)
Trauma, Postmemory, and Identity in Michael Arlen Jr.'s Passage to Ararat (2017)
Trauma, Memory and Geographies of Identity in Carol Edgarian’s Rise the Euphrates. (2016)
The American Sublime or the American Decline in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis? (2016)
Globalization, Space, and Culture in Karen Tei Yamashati's Through the Arch of the Rainforest (2015)
The Magical, the Supernatural and Storytelling in Louise Erdrich's Four Souls (2015)
Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day: Magical Realism as the Site of Black Female Agency and Empowerment (2014)
Representation of Vampires and Vampirism in Turkish Culture (2012)
The Challenge of Change in Diana Abu Jaber's The Language of Baklava (2011)
The Reaganist Apocalypse in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (2010)
Subversions and Diversions in Barbara Neely's Blanche Cleans Up (2009)
Assimilation and the Politics of Black Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills (2005)
Head the Plan Laid Out For You: The City as Legible Text in Toni Morrison's Jazz (2004)
(Dis) Empowerment of Women in Sex and The City (2003)
Is Seinfeld Any Less Absurd Than Godot? (2003)
My Body My Torture, My Body My Pleasure: Black Women's Bodies and the Cultural Politics of Racism (2003)
Negrophobia: Constructing Otherness Through Fear (2002)
Negrophobia: Constructing Otherness Through Fear (2002)