About
Demet Gülçiçek is an Honorary Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Munzur University, Turkey. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick, following her MA and BA degrees in Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Her research interests include feminist historiography, affect theory, Orientalism and Occidentalism studies and popular feminisms. She is currently writing about the relationship between popular feminism and anti-gender movements, criticising the assumption that popular feminism belongs to the West.
Her most recent research is about the affective states of critical academic production. She is interested in the ways invisible and uncredited academic labour is maintained, in link with conceptualisations of ‘cruel optimism’ and ‘ugly feelings’.
Demet is a co-editor of Feminist Tahayyül Journal and served as a co-chair of AtGender.