Seda Bahar Pancaroğlu

Research interests

My doctoral research examines the representation of partitioned Cyprus in contemporary Anglophone literature, focusing on how spaces of division, displacement, belonging, and memory are narrated and imagined.

Publications

Book chapters and articles. Also on ResearchGate and ORCID.

• 2027
  Healing the Divide: Postmemory and Reconciliation in Eva Asprakis’s Love and Only WaterChapterForthcoming

  In Postconflict Interventions in Women’s Writing: Crafting Reconciliatory Spaces, ed. Lourdes López-Ropero · Palgrave Macmillan
• 2027
  Curating Memory: Dismantling the Museum Politics in Daljit Nagra’s ‘Meditations on the British Museum’ArticleForthcoming

  ARIEL · special issue Decolonizing Museums, Collections and Archives in Postcolonial and Indigenous Literatures in English · Bloomsbury
• 2026
  Brandy Sour: Liquid Heritage and the Portability of Memory in CyprusChapter

  In Sharing the Table: Culinary Journeys from the Middle East to the North of the Netherlands and the World, ed. Karène Sanchez Summerer, Heather J. Sharkey & José Rafael Medeiros Coelho · University of Groningen Press, pp. 108–110
• 2025
  Dispossessed Homes: Remembering Cyprus in the Aftermath of ConflictArticle

  English Studies 106(3), pp. 1–17 · special issue Representations of Home: (Dis)locations – The Shifting Thematics of Home
• 2025
  Plates Without Borders: The Happy Fig Tavern and the Taste of Cypriot UnityChapter

  In Commensality and Cultural Heritage: Bringing the Foodways of the Middle East and Its Diasporas to the Table, ed. Heather J. Sharkey & Karène Sanchez Summerer · University of Groningen Press
• 2025
  Cypriot Culinary Heritage Across the Greek-Turkish Divide: The Case of Flaounes and PilavunaChapter

  In Commensality and Cultural Heritage: Bringing the Foodways of the Middle East and Its Diasporas to the Table, ed. Heather J. Sharkey & Karène Sanchez Summerer · University of Groningen Press
• 2021
  Indian at Home, English Outside It: Analysis on Minority Women in Work CultureChapter

  In Narratives of Displacement, ed. Miriam Sette · Biblion Edizioni, pp. 155–172
• 2017
  White Stains on Black Pages: Deconstructing English Identity in Zadie Smith’s White TeethChapter

  As Seda Bahar Yavcan · in B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity and Identity in Literatures, ed. Şule Okuroğlu Özün & Mustafa Kırca · Peter Lang

Conference presentations

Recent papers presented at international conferences.

• 2026
  ‘Portable Roots’: Gardening as a Performance of Home-making in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

  RHOME 2026: Representations of Home in Literatures and Cultures in English · University of Lisbon, June 2026
• 2024
  Ekphrastic Poetics of Eco-grief and Eco-anxiety in Christy Lefteri’s The Book of Fire

  Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism · The London Arts-Based Research Centre, July 2024
• 2024
  ‘Doomed Trees’: Ethnic Cartography in Brian Friel’s The Home Place

  16th International IDEA Conference · Cappadocia University, Nevşehir, April 2024
• 2023
  Embracing the Inevitable: Arboreal Perspectives on Death and Transformation in Contemporary Fiction

  ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2023: Transitions · University of Liverpool, August 2023
• 2023
  Dispossessed Homes: Remembering Cyprus in the Aftermath of Conflict

  RHOME 2023: (Dis)locations · University of Lisbon, June 2023
• 2023
  Becoming One: Ecospirituality in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

  Eco-anxiety and Spirituality in Literature Conference · UC Louvain, February 2023
• 2022
  Nostalgia and Restoring Hope through Children’s Literature: The Refugee Experience in Nadine Kaadan’s Tomorrow and Bassel Abou Fakher’s Saving Stella

  ELALT 6 · University of Novi Sad, October 2022
• 2022
  Return of the Author: Emily Brontë in Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child

  British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Conference · University of Birmingham, September 2022
• 2022
  Recapturing Dickens: Tobias Oates in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs

  27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium · City, University of London, July 2022
• 2022
  Memory of a Tree: War, Exile and Other Disasters in The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

  Disaster Discourse: Representations of Catastrophe · University of Bucharest, June 2022

Summer schools & training

International schools and courses attended.

• 2026
  Beyond DivisionFully funded

  Summer school · Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), September 2026
• 2025
  Cultural Analysis Now! – What about Method?

  Intensive course · The Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis (NICA), October 2025
• 2025
  Editorial School for Journal Editors

  Training · European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
• 2025
  Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas

  Winter school · University of Groningen, January 2025
• 2023
  Words and Museums. The Content, Design, and Function of Textual CommunicationMerit scholarship

  Summer school · University of Pisa, June 2023
• 2022
  Stories of Cultural Conflict and Encounter. Transmitting and Writing New Identities

  Summer school · University of Groningen, August 2022

Academic journey

Education, teaching and editorial work.

Memberships

Professional associations.

• EASE
  European Association of Science Editors

  Vice Chair, Türkiye Chapter
• BACLS
  British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

  Member
• MSA
  Memory Studies Association

  Member

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