Graduate Associate
airemka[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in English, York University
Research Keywords:
Critical refugee studies; world literature; worldmaking; queer studies
Ayse Irem Karabag is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at York University. She specializes in critical refugee studies, queer/gender studies, world literature and narratives of resistance. Before arriving in Tkaronto, Irem received her Master’s in English and Transcultural Studies from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2021) and her BA from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (2017). Irem’s dissertation project examines the construction and representation of social capital and gender in queer refugee life-narratives, which she investigates within the broader framework of refugee worldmaking.