I am a lecturer in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and a researcher at CoFutures. I am a scholar of comparative literature and environmental humanities, focusing on how climate change and ecological futures are depicted in speculative fiction, film, and visual arts from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and their Anglophone diasporas. My research involves Turkish, Arabic, and Anglophone sources addressing climate change, extractivism, extinction, and multispecies justice.

I critically engage with discourses of the Anthropocene, investigating how cultural production in these languages challenges and redefines universalist views of the term. My work also examines discourses of Arabfuturisms and Gulf futurism, focusing particularly on the their ecological implications. My current book project examines conceptions of futurity and environmental justice in SWANA from a comparative perspective.

Before joining Utrecht University, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (now renamed Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) at the University of Oslo.