Serkan Görkemli

Associate Professor

English

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
    • Profile Picture of Professor Serkan Görkemli
    Contact Information
    Emailserkan.gorkemli@uconn.edu
    Phone203-251-9585
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    Mailing Address1 University Pl. Stamford, CT 06901
    CampusStamford
    Office HoursFall 2024: Tu & Thu 12-2 (In-Person)
    Linkhttp://english.uconn.edu/serkan-gorkemli/