Profile
Gizem N. Iscan (she/her/hers) is an adjunct lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Hunter College since 2022 and at Brooklyn College since 2017. Her intro and special topic courses explore social constructions, identity, intersectionality, gender, migration, immigration, race and ethnic studies, class studies, body studies, media studies, border and borderlands studies.
Gizem holds a BA in American Culture and Literature from Istanbul University, and an MA in English from Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is a PhD Candidate in the American Culture Studies program at Bowling Green State University where she holds an Advanced Certificate in Women`s and Gender Studies as well as in Ethnic Studies. Her research and writing are focused within the intersections of gender, migration and immigration, identity construction, femicides, and borderlands. She has published peer reviewed articles and poetry on borders, identity, (un)belonging, and grievability.