Serkan Görkemli

Associate Professor

English

About

Serkan Görkemli is an Associate Professor of English at UConn, Stamford. Görkemli’s Current Research includes:

Conferences

• Chair and speaker on the panel “Lambda Literary Fellows on Transnational and Intersectional Queer Fiction”. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, 7 March 2020.
• General Contributor in Fiction, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 14-24 August 2019.
• Fiction Fellow, Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, 5-12 August 2018.
• Speaker on the panel “Nothing Can Happen Nowhere: The Craft of Setting in LGBTQ-Themed Fiction”. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, 9 March 2018.

Fiction

• “Sweet Tooth.” Joyland Magazine, 31 Jul. 2020.
• “Kastro.” Epiphany, A Literary Journal, Spring/Summer Issue on the Theme of Borders, 16 Jun. 2020, 41-51.
• “LoverZ.” Foglifter, 20 Apr. 2019, 113-119.
• “Big Sister.” Ploughshares, 16 Apr. 2019, 115-123.
• “Webbed” (reprint). Emerge: 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology, edited by JD Scott, Independently Published, Mar. 9, 2019, pp. 357-362.
• “Webbed.” Chelsea Station, 24 Jul. 2018.
• Book Chapter: “Designing and Teaching Introduction to LGBT Literature in the U.S. and Turkey from a Transnational Perspective.” Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature, edited by William P. Banks and John Pruitt, Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 49-69.
• “Runway.” The Iowa Review, forthcoming.
• “Outing.” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, forthcoming.

Specialties

Rhetoric and composition, LGBT literature, creative writing (fiction)