Rate My Professor Merve Sarıkaya-Şen

Sarıkaya-Şen has produced a substantial body of scholarly work published in leading academic journals and books. Key articles comprise "Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts: Cruel Optimism and Meritocracy in an Engendered Critical Dystopia" in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (2025), "From Utopia to an Eco-Feminist Critical Dystopia: Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness" in Women: A Cultural Review (2023), "Building Resilience and Interconnectedness among Humans and Nonhuman Entities: Aminatta Forna's Happiness" in European Review (2021), "Reconfiguring Feminism: Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other" in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms? (2021), "Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form" in English Studies (2018), and "The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Coping Strategies in Grace Nichols's I is a Long Memoried Woman" in English Studies (2017). She has also contributed chapters to Routledge-edited volumes, including "Attending to the Victims of (in)visible Violence: Elided Potentialities Revisited in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These" (2025), "Migration Crisis in Contemporary Literature: A Journey through Loss and Hope" (2025), and "Diversity, Singularity, Reenchantment and Relationality in a Transmodern World: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" (2020). Additionally, she co-authored the introduction "Introduction. Contemporary Literature in Times of Crisis and Vulnerability: Trauma, Demise of Sovereignty and Interconnectedness" for European Review (2021). Through these works, Sarıkaya-Şen explores themes of trauma, resilience, feminism, dystopia, migration, and relational ethics in contemporary Anglophone fiction.