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Selen Erdo臒an鈥檚 work stands at the intersection of modernism studies and gender and sexuality. Between 2022 and 2025, she worked on narratives of sex work and incarceration as portrayed by women writers from various countries in the Middle East as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University鈥檚 Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University.
She completed her Ph.D. in Turkish Language and Literature at Bo臒azi莽i University in 2021 with a dissertation titled Writing from the Closet: Bilge Karasu鈥檚 Queer Modernism, which explores how Bilge Karasu鈥檚 fiction contributes to queer theory by transgressing the heterosexual matrix and Karasu鈥檚 dialogue with significant works of modernism. She received her B.A in Political Science from Bo臒azi莽i University and her M.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabanc谋 University with a thesis titled 鈥淲riting with/in Irony,鈥� focusing on the relationship between irony and women writers鈥� subjectivity.
Her research has been funded by Fulbright, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and other institutions. She has taught at Harvard, Bo臒azici, Sabanc谋, and Kadir Has universities. Her publications include articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews in various journals and collections. Her main interests lie in comparative modernisms, queer and feminist theory, and gender studies.
