Zeynep Aydoğdu completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University in 2019. After graduating, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. Presently, she is an RRT Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Gateway to Belonging at the University of Oklahoma. Her dissertation employed the critical perspectives of women of color feminism and minor transnationalism to interrogate how the intersections of race, gender, and religion interact with representations of “Muslim” identity in the narratives of writers from the Near/Middle East. Her article “(Un)veiled Women, Modernity, and Civilizing Missions: Selma Ekrem’s Legacy and the Suffrage Movement” was published in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly in 2020. She is currently working on her book project, In Relation: Racialization and Interethnic Solidarities in U.S. Muslim Women’s Writing, which engages the theories of relationality to examine the figure of the racialized immigrant and the cross-racial and feminist conceptualizations of minority alliances in U.S. multiethnic literature.
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