Esen Kara received her Ph.D in the American Studies department of Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, in 2018, with a thesis titled “Claiming the Right to the City: Representation of Los Angeles in the Transnational American Literature.” She is an assistant professor at Yasar University, Department of English Language and Literature, where she teaches courses on postcolonial literature, contemporary American literature, and Turkish literature as world literature. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Esen Kara is appointed as a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College COLT, Spanish/Portugese with a TUBITAK international post-doctoral fellowship. Her current research focuses on ecological imagination as medium of counter-memory in Turkish and US-Latinx literatures, specifically the production of affective archives in testimonial narratives of wars and genocide.