Aşar, Yıldız. “‘Girl Who Comes Out Fighting’: Indigenous Girlhood in Eco-Crisis in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Sixth World." Reconnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change, edited by Thomas Mantzaris, Hellenic Association for American Studies Digital Publications, 2025, pp. 98-122, https://doi.org/10.12681/helaasdp.253.
Essays in Scholarly Journals
in preparation
Reviews
Aşar, Yıldız. "Emily Ashton, Anthropocene Childhoods: Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 198 pp. (review)." Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 71, no. 2, July 2026, pp. 317–320. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2026/2/16.
Miscellaneous
"Big Girl." Song contribution in While My Uke Gently Smiles: Ukulele Portraits, ed. Klaus Heymach, h’onga Verlag Frankfurt, 2023.
"in a small town."(4.8 MB) Poem contribution in Just Write: Change, ed. Touhid Chowdhury, 3rd edition, 2022, pp. 3-4.
Conference Presentations, Guest Lectures and Talks
07/2026: “Toward Ecogirlhood: Structuring a Project on Girls and Environments in 'Crisis'” Presentation at the “Munich PhD Workshop in American Studies”, LMU Munich.
04/2026: “Angry Girls on a Fiery Planet?: Girlhood and Environmental Crisis in Recent YA (Eco)Dystopias.” Guest Lecture in Seminar "Burn It All Down without Burning Out: Lessons from YA Dystopia's Transformational Heroines (Prof. Dr. Sarah Hentges, University of Maine at Augusta).
03/2026: “Ecological Crisis, Disrupted Girlhoods, and Regenerative Resilience in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans.” Conference presentation during the 57. Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Gannon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
01/2026: “'Young Angry Women': Ecofeminism, Climate Crisis, and Girlhood in Contemporary American Speculative YA Novels." Guest Lecture in Seminar "Oh no, did I forget about gender? Mind the gap! About Ecofeminism" (Dr. Elena Köstner, University of Bayreuth).
11/2025: “'Fever be in the water, the air. In me': Ecological Crisis, Black Girlhood, and Embodied Resilience in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans." Conference presentation during the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), Leipzig University.
10/2025: “Ecologies of Girlhood and Girlhoods of Ecology at the End of the World? Reading Orleans with Ecogirlhood.” Presentation at the Academic Workshop “Posthuman Ecofeminism in Art, Literature, and Aesthetics”, University of Bonn.
11/2024: "'Can’t You Envision This Possibility?': Latinx Girlhood, Eco/Political Disillusionment and Toward Egalitarian Kinship in Lilliam Rivera’s Dealing in Dreams." Conference presentation at the CUNY Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference “Illusion/Disillusion”, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, USA.
11/2024: "Live-Report from Boston, USA." Talk at the event "American Election Night 2024", University of Bamberg.
10/2024: "Fostering Ethical Pedagogics in American Studies: The Transformative Impact of Critically Engaging with The Myths That Made America." Presentation together with Dr. Nicole K. Konopka at the International Workshop "Teaching American Studies" (in honor of the ten year anniversary of the first publication of Heike Paul's The Myths That Made America), FAU Erlangen.
07/2024: "'We are the daughters of Mega City': Latinxfuturism, Girlhood and Environment in Lilliam Rivera's Dealing in Dreams." Presentation at the "Local Practices – Transatlantic Conversations, An Ecocritical Workshop Series: 'Gender and Environment in Speculative Fiction'", University of Cologne.
02/2024: "'Girl Who Comes Out Fighting': Indigenous Girlhood and Ecological Crisis in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts." Presentation at the "Indigenous Futurisms Workshop with Chelsea Vowel", University of Vienna, Austria.
09/2023: “Buffalo Gals, Green Girls, and Somewhere In-Between: Twenty-First Century Eco-Girlhoods in American Speculative YA Literature.” Presentation at the Austrian-Bavarian Postgraduate Workshop “American Studies: History, Methods, Prospects”, University of Salzburg, Austria.
06/2023: "Buffalo Gals, Green Girls, and Somewhere In-Between: Twenty-First Century Eco-Girlhoods in American Speculative YA Literature.” Presentation at the Ph.D. Course “LIT606 Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment”, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
10/2022: “'The White Whale in the Minds of the Superstitiously Inclined': Animals and Superstition in Moby-Dick." Conference presentation at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies "Narrative, Environment, Social Justice", University of Salzburg, Austria.