I am interested in how a sense of place and various forms of movement shape literary experiences and poetic forms, structures and expressions, how poetics is informed by various political emotions and nationalist discourses (specifically, nostalgia), the relationship between form and meaning, and the ways in which individual acts of translation interpret and negotiate this relationship.
 
Lately, I have been thinking about the modernist preoccupation with the image and its inheritance in Turkish, German and English poetry.
 
I am an avid reader of contemporary poetry and find writing reviews to be one of the most rewarding ways to appreciate the ever-changing possibilities of language. You can read some of my recent reviews at the links below.

• Skeleton Coast by Elizabeth Arnold
• Equilibrium by Tiana Clark
• Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
• Rayfish by Mary Hickman

 
My translation of one of the first Turkish novels into English was published by Syracuse University Press in 2016. (Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, co-translated with Monica M. Ringer.) http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2016/felatum-bey.html