Serkan Görkemli

Associate Professor

English

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Serkan Görkemli (he/him) is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut and teaches writing and literature at the Stamford campus. His research and publications focus on LGBTQ+ literacies and storytelling. He is the author of two books: Sweet Tooth and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2024) and Grassroots Literacies: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey (SUNY Press, 2014; winner of the 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Book Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication). Originally from Türkiye, he has a PhD in English from Purdue University and lives in New York.

Current research

Fiction & Creative Nonfiction

Specialties

Creative Writing (Prose)

LGBTQ+ Literature

Rhetoric and Composition

Interviews & Reviews of Work

Q&A about Sweet Tooth and Other Stories in Foreword Magazine

Interview about Sweet Tooth and Other Stories in Electric Literature

Review of Sweet Tooth and Other Stories in Tupelo Quarterly

Review of Grassroots Literacies in Community Literacy Journal