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Ege Selin Islekel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Faculty Member in Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on 20th Century Continental Philosophy, post-Foucaultian biopolitics, and decolonial feminisms, with emphases on critical approaches to the politics of death, collective memory, and epistemic responses to contexts of death. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (with Distinction) from DePaul University (2018), complemented by a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies (2015), an M.A. in Philosophy (2013), and a B.A. in Philosophy (with Honors) from Koç University (2011).
Her scholarly work includes her forthcoming book Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance (Northwestern University Press, 2024), analyzing collective mourning practices in Turkey and Latin America, and her co-edited volume Foucault, Derrida, and the Biopolitics of Punishment (Northwestern University Press, 2022). Current projects include Monstrous Visions, examining decolonial genealogies of monstrosity and racialized death regimes. Her articles appear in journals like Foucault Studies, Philosophy Compass, and hypatia, as well as anthologies such as Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory.
Ege teaches courses including Introduction to Philosophy (Phil 251.508) and Seminar Ethics and Value Theory (Phil 662.600). Office hours are held by appointment in YMCA 428A.
