Aylin Pekanık

Aylin Pekanık is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She received a bachelor’s degree in English Translation and Interpretation and a master’s degree in American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University with a thesis on the gendered design of female coded androids in contemporary science fiction films. Her research interests include audiovisual media studies, ludology, gender and queer studies, speculative fiction, and horror fiction. She is currently teaching courses on race and ethnicity and gender studies in American culture at Bilkent University and working on her PhD dissertation titled “Transgressive Monstrosity In Contemporary American Horror Fiction Anthologies” which examines the evolution and reclamation of queer monstrosity in horror short story anthologies.