Academic Research

Welcome to my research page! I am Fahime Serhatti, and I’ll be sharing my CV and scholarly work on literature, including conference presentations, publications, courses I taught, and affiliations.


EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2022

• M.A. in Gender and Women’s Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2013

• M.A. in English Literature, IAU, Tehran, Iran, 2008

• B.A. in English Language and Literature, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, 2004

EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor Dr., English Preparatory Program, Yuksek Ihtisas University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2024 – Present

• Postdoctoral Researcher, English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, October 2024 – Present

• The Netherlands Winter School on Narrative, Narrative and the Mind, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, January 20-24, 2025

• Postdoctoral Researcher, English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, August 2022 – July 2024

• Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training, Nord University, Bodo, Norway, June 22 – 28

• Instructor (part-time), Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2023 – 2024

• Instructor (part-time), American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, September 2022 – February 2024

• Instructor (part-time), English Preparatory Program, Yuksek Ihtisas University, Ankara, Turkey, Fall 2023

• Instructor (part-time), Translation and Interpreting Studies, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, Spring 2023

COURSES

• Literature and Medicine I – Spring 2025, Yuksek Ihtisas University

• Reading and Writing Skills in English – Fall 2023 – Spring 2025, Yuksek Ihtisas University

• Listening and Speaking Skills in English – Fall 2023 – Spring 2025, Yuksek Ihtisas University

• Introduction to the Art of the Novel – Fall 2023, Başkent University

• Introduction to Literary Studies 1 – Fall 2023, Başkent University

• Comparative Literary Readings – Fall 2023, Başkent University

• Research Techniques – Fall 2022 and 2023, Başkent University

• Literature and Society 1 – Summer 2023, Middle East Technical University

• The Short Story – Summer 2023, Middle East Technical University

• Introduction to Literature – Spring 2023, Middle East Technical University

• Introduction to Literary Studies 2 – Spring 2023, Başkent University

• Speaking and Rhetoric – Spring 2023, Başkent University

• Reading and Writing Skills in English – Spring 2023, Çankaya University

• Lexis and Terminology II – Spring 2023, Çankaya University

• Readings in English Literature – Fall 2022, Başkent University

PUBLICATIONS

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Trauma Fiction: Trauma and the Impossibility of Healing in Pat Barker’s Another World.” Unbound Explorations of Genres in Contemporary Fiction, edited by Selin Şencan, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2025. (forthcoming)

• Serhatti, Fahime, and Margaret J-M Sönmez. “Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress.” English Studies, 2024, pp. 1-23. 

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Time and Gender in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’” Journal of History Culture and Art Research, vol. 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 221-234.

CONFERENCES

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Beyond ‘Third Space’: Decolonial Hope in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen.” 27th METU British Novelists Conference: Buchi Emecheta and Her Work, METU, Ankara, Turkey, December 5-6, 2024.

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Re-reading Traumatic Amnesia and Reconciliation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant.” International Conference on Narrative, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 1-4, 2023.

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Why all the Violence? Daniel Defoe’s Crusoe Trilogy and The Fortunate Mistress.” BSECS Postgraduate & Early Career Seminar Series, England, August 25, 2022.

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Daniel Defoe’s Crusoe Trilogy: Novels of Moral Injury.” International Conference on Narrative, University of Chichester, England, June 28-30, 2022.

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress: A Story of Isolation and Moral Injury.” Fifteenth International IDEA Conference, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey, May 11-13, 2022.

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Focalization in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe’s Captain Singleton.” Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Novel Genre, İstinye University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2022.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Transgressions in Motherhood and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders.” BSECS Postgraduate & Early Career Seminar Series, England, August 25, 2021.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Disobedience, Distress, and Temporality in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” 25th METU British Novelists Conference: Daniel Defoe and His Work, METU, Ankara, Turkey, December 12-13, 2019.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Empathic Unsettlement and the Secondary Witness in Pat Barker’s Another World.” Reimagining and Remembering the Other: Empathy and its Limitations Symposium, NSU, Fårö, Sweden, July 29 – August 5, 2018.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Multiculturalism and Polyphony in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.” 22nd METU British Novelists Conference: Zadie Smith and Her Work, METU, Ankara, Turkey, March 26-27, 2015.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Order and Gender in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and ‘Making a Change.’” Postgraduate Conference on Translation Studies and Literatures in English, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, May 13-14, 2013.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Time and Gender in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper.’” Seventh International IDEA Conference: Studies in English, Pamukkale University, Kinili Campus, Denizli, Turkey, April 17-19, 2013.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Resistance and Body in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.” Post-Graduate Student Conference on English Literature and Translation Studies, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, May 2012.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Christine de Pizan: A Phallocritic or Gynocritic.” The Second International BAKEA Symposium, Pamukkale University, Kinili Campus, Denizli, Turkey, October 5-7, 2011.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Traditional Hero vs. Modern Hero: A Comparative Study of Michael K as Modern Postcolonial Hero and Oedipus as Aristotelian Hero.” First International Symposium of Western Culture and Literary Studies (BAKEA): Hero(ine), Pamukkale University, Kinili Campus, Denizli, Turkey, October 7-9, 2009.

INVITED TALKS

• “Intergenerational Trauma and Gothic Elements in Pat Barker’s Another World.” Romancing the Gothic, December 13, 2025. (forthcoming)

• “Deities, Ahriman, Demons, and Demon-King in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.” Romancing the Gothic, May 18, 2024. 

• “Perspectives on Failure for the Graduate and Contingent Faculty Caucus.” GCC Panel, International Society for the Study of Narrative, July 20, 2023.

• “Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe's Novels: An Origin Story.” Critical Perspective Seminar Series, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, December 20, 2022.

DISSERTATION

• Serhatti, Fahime. “Representations of Familial Transgressions and Moral Injury in the Novels of Daniel Defoe.” Dissertation, Middle East Technical University, 2022.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “Gender and Temporality: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and “Making A Change.” Term-Project, Middle East Technical University, 2013.

• Berenji, Fahimeh Q. “J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K and Waiting for the Barbarians: A Postcolonial Thematic Reading.” Thesis, IAU, 2008.