Esra Plümer Bardak is an art historian, writer-researcher. Esra earned her PhD in Art History from the University of Nottingham as well as a second postgraduate degree in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from Queen’s University, Belfast. She has worked in academic posts as Lecturer since 2007 and has delivered invited talks across Europe, the UK, Turkey and Cyprus about art and art history. She is the author of several monographic studies, such as Unica Zurn: Art, Writing and Post-war Surrealism (IB Tauris, 2016) and Meaningful Coincidences (EMU Press, 2022) and has contributed to journals and edited books internationally, including Contemporary Art in Cyprus (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Theorising the Artist Interview (Routledge, 2025). She holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design, and is part of the curatorial team of Arkin Group. She has been a member of the Technical Committee on Culture since 2021.