Nisâ Sevsay is a luminary in the realm of literature and cultural exploration. She fuses history, anthropology, philosophy and poetic expression, opening new dimensions in the landscape of language. With a background rooted in American Studies, she creates a revelation of poetry that challenges the boundaries of traditional form. Her work is an alchemy of language marked by an insatiable curiosity about the multifaceted nature of language, with a particular fascination for the enigmatic interplay of multiplicity and history. She blends diverse text sources and collects fragments from a vast mosaic of human expression, mainly from Ancient Egyptian and Sumerian texts. Within the lines of her poems and collages, one can sense a timeless endeavor to unearth unprecedented relationships between words and their semantic interpretations throughout history. Her creations are a testament to the endless possibilities that language holds, and her academic endeavors are a testament to the power of inquiry and intellectual curiosity.
PRESENTATIONS
Barthes, Bots, and Beyond: Rethinking Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. “Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence,” The State University of New York Council on Writing and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University, 2023.
Birds Tell of War: Representations of War through the Eyes of Children. “War Memories: From the Military to the Civilian,” Rennes 2 University (France), Le Mans University (France) and the Royal Military College (Canada), 2021.
Finite Life, Infinite Being: The Eternal Time in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” 4th PAU Conference of English Studies, 2019.
Spirituality as an Escapeway in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God and Ana Mendieta’s Earth-Body Performances. Literatures of Diversity: Reconsiderations, 2019.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Academy of American Poets
Torun Artist Collective
PUBLICATIONS
Monuments of Cold War Politics: Shaping Collective Memory. History as Political Theory: History, Time, and Political Action, Vernon Press.
Koimētērion. Five Minutes Lit, 2023.
From Afar. Sheepshead Review, 2022.
The Conflict in the Middle East and the Concept of Exile: Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning, The Beekeeper, and Look: Poems. Hacettepe University, 2022.
It. The Merrimack Review, Spring 2020.
Review: Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels. PopMec, 2020.
KGA – I – Artists’ Publications.
Salt Contemporary Art, 2019.
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