Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey

Jaspal Kaur Singh, Professor of English Literature at Northern Michigan University (NMU), earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Oregon (1998). She received the Fulbright Teaching and Research Award (2012–2013), the Peter White Award and the Distinguished Faculty Award at NMU (2013–2014; 2009–2010), and the Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCLA (1998–1999). Dr. Singh is the author of Representation and Resistance: Indian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (2008), co-editor of Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas (Lang, 2010) and Trauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post–1994 South African Writing (Lang, 2010), and assistant editor of Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now (2011). Mary Lou O’Neil is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Kadir Has University. She earned her PhD in American studies from the University of Kansas (2000). Dr. O’Neil has published articles in European Journal of Women’s Studies, Fashion Theory, American Studies International Journal of Women’s Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Asian Women, and Turkish Studies.