Elif Gülez
Elif Gülez
Elif Gülez is a Turkish writer and translator, a PhD candidate in literary practice supervised by Maureen Freely, at the University of Warwick. Her research is focused on migration, translation, displaced memories, and little-known histories. She writes both in her mother tongue Turkish and her second language, English. She holds an LLM degree in human rights law, an MA degree in English Literature and an MA degree in Writing.
Elif’s PhD research is on the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the first internationally supervised mass transfer of populations in the 20th century. Her first novel Operation Mytilene will be published in Turkish, by Istanbul’s acclaimed independent publisher istos, in the summer of 2023.
Elif is currently teaching an interdisciplinary undergraduate module on writing about human rights and injustice at the University of Warwick’s Law School. She’s also involved in the Writing Wrongs Schools Programme, aimed at supporting young writers in their writing about social justice issues. Elif often receives invitations from universities in Turkey to deliver lectures or workshops on fiction .