Evren Savci

Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research focuses on language, knowledge, sexual politics, neoliberalism, religion and modernity. Her first book, Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (2021, DUP) analyzes sexual politics under contemporary Turkey’s AKP regime with an eye to the travel and translation of sexual political vocabulary. Savcı’s second book project turns to the political economy of monogamy and its establishment as a central tenet of civilized sexual morality.