Selen Erdoğan received her BA in political science from Boğaziçi University and her MA in cultural studies from Sabancı University with a thesis focusing on the relationship between irony and women writers’ political subjectivity. She completed her PhD in Turkish language and literature at Boğaziçi University in 2021 with a dissertation titled "Writing from the Closet: Bilge Karasu’s Queer Modernism." Her work examines how Bilge Karasu’s fiction contributes to queer theory by transgressing the heterosexual matrix and Karasu’s dialogue with significant works of modernism. She spent the 2018-19 academic year in the United States as a Fulbright Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania’s Comparative Literature Department. Since 2015 she has taught Turkish modernism and queer literature courses at Boğaziçi, Sabancı, and Kadir Has Universities. She published articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews in journals, including New Perspectives on Turkey, Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Bir+Bir, and Notos. She is interested in comparative modernisms, Turkish modernism, gender and sexuality, queer theory, and life narratives.