Yeşim İpekçi is a research assistant at the department of Western Languages and Literatures, Firat University and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Middle East Technical University. She has been granted a Fulbright scholarship to do research on her PhD thesis at Fordham University during 2021/2022 academic year. She is currently writing her PhD thesis. She presented papers, held seminars and published articles on the Victorian bildungsroman, postcolonial novel, gender studies, psychoanalysis and literature, and affect theory.