Serkan Görkemli

Professor

English

Serkan Görkemli is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and teaches writing and literature at the Stamford campus. He is the author of two books: Sweet Tooth and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2024; silver winner in LGBTQ+ fiction and finalist in short stories, 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards) and Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey (SUNY Press, 2014; winner of 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Book Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication). Originally from Türkiye, he has a Ph.D. in English from Purdue University.

Current research

• Fiction & Creative Nonfiction

Specialties

• Creative Writing (Prose)
• LGBTQ+ Literature
• Rhetoric and Composition