About
Her research focuses on feminist speculative fiction, monster studies, hauntology, and ecocriticism. She has been teaching at Özyeğin University since 2019. Ezgi Hamzaçebi—whose doctoral dissertation, titled The Promises of Monsters: Those Haunting Turkish Feminist Speculative Fiction, was published by Metis Publishing in 2025—is also currently curating the group exhibition titled The Promises of Monsters, which opened at Hara Istanbul in March 2026 and runs through March 2027.
After completing her undergraduate degree in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, she pursued graduate studies in modern Turkish literature. For her M.A., she explored the literary presence of nonhuman beings in her thesis “The Literary Representation of Nonhumans: An Ecocritical Approach to Yere Düşen Dualar and Yeryüzü Halleri.” She subsequently received her Ph.D. from the same department with the dissertation “The Promises of Monsters: Those Haunting Turkish Feminist Speculative Fiction.”
From 2017 to 2019, she helped organize the “Interdisciplinary Ecological-Ethical Encounters” conference series at Boğaziçi University. Her scholarly work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Feminist Tahayyül, Monograf, and Kampfplatz, as well as in edited volumes including The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (Routledge, 2026), Bir Tuhaf Kurgu Gece Hayatım: Korkunun Eşiğinde, Adaletin Peşinde (T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınları, 2026); Anlatı Üzerine II: Hayatı Yeniden Kurmak (Livera, 2024), Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Timescapes (Lexington Books, 2020), Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film (Routledge, 2019), and Gaflet: Modern Türkçe Edebiyatın Cinsiyetçi Sinir Uçları (Metis, 2019). She also co-edited the volume Sosyal Bilimler Ne İşe Yarar? (What Are the Social Sciences Good For?, Boğaziçi University Press, 2015).