Duygu Erbil

Duygu Erbil is a PhD candidate in the ReAct (Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe) project at Utrecht University.
While completing an RMA in Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University, she focused on the interplay between carceral textual cultures and the mediation of prison testimony in solitary confinement in the United States.

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Finding a Polity in Prison Writing

Written by Duygu Erbil, Illustrated by Ken Krimstein

We want to find living examples of a functioning Polity of Literature. A friend suggests, why not look at prison writing?

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The American Prison Writing Archive

Written by Duygu Erbil, Illustrated by Ken Krimstein

In the 1970s American prisons began to allow in-prison writing programs. In the 21st century, with the prison population booming, the American Prison Writing Archive went online to connect incarcerated writers to readers outside.