Eda Gunaydin

(she/her)

Eda Gunaydin is a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Her writing and research explores class, capital, intergenerational trauma and diaspora. You can find her work in the Sydney Review of Books, The Age, Meanjin and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for a Queensland Literary Award and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance won the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Lecturer, University of Wollongong

Education

  • 2023 
    University of Sydney, PhD (Social Sciences)
  • 2016 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts (Honours I and University Medal)

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