Ege Selin Islekel

Ege Selin Islekel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, where she is also affiliated with Race and Ethnic Studies. Her research brings together political philosophy, 20^th continental philosophy (especially Critical Theory and Foucault), and decolonial and feminist thought, with particular attention to questions of death, mourning, violence, and memory.

Islekel is the author of Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance(Northwestern University Press, 2024), which examines the political and epistemic dimensions of collective mourning through the problem of improper burial. Her current book project, Monstrous Visions: Mechanisms of Defense and Regimes of Visibility, traces the figure of the monster as a political designation for populations cast as being in proximity to death.

Islekel is a founding member of the International Consortium for the Thought of the Global South (ICTGS), an international scholarly initiative dedicated to fostering philosophical exchange and collaboration across traditions of thought from the Global South. Her work has appeared in journals including Hypatia, Theory & Event, Philosophy Compass, and Foucault Studies. She is also co-editor of Foucault, Derrida, and the Biopolitics of Punishment(Northwestern University Press, 2022). Her broader research interests include political philosophy, philosophies of the Global South, philosophy of race, decolonial feminist philosophy, and critical prison studies.

Educational Background

• Ph.D in Philosophy – with Distinction, DePaul University, 2018

• Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, DePaul University, 2015

• M.A. in Philosophy – with Distinction, DePaul University, 2013

• B.A. in Philosophy – with Honors, Koc University, 2011