Res. Asst. PhD MURAT KABAK

Biography

Murat Kabak is a research assistant at the Department of English Language and Literature, Istanbul Kültür University. He received his M.A. degree in English Literature at Boğaziçi University. He is currently a doctoral student in the English Literature program at the Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, Boğaziçi University. His research interests include contemporary novel, contemporary theory and criticism, and media studies.

Education

2020 - 2026

Doctorate

Bogazici University, The Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, English Literature (PhD), Turkey

2017 - 2020

Postgraduate

Bogazici University, The Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, English Literature (MA), Turkey

2013 - 2017

Undergraduate

Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey

Dissertations

2020

Postgraduate

The politics of Nostalgia in Atwood’xxs Oryx and Crake and Bacigalupi’xxs the Windup Girl

Bogazici University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İngiliz Edebiyatı (Yl) (Tezli)

Foreign Languages

C2 Mastery

English

Certificates, Courses and Trainings

2025

Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Yol Haritası Çalıştayı

Environment and Sustainability

İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Öğrenci Dekanlığı Kültür Noktası ve Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Merkezi

2016

Pedagojik Formasyon Sertifika Programı

Education Management and Planning

İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi

Research Areas

English Language and Literature

American Culture and Literature

Research Areas Based on Academic Activities

Avesis Research Areas

WoS Research Areas

Scopus Research Areas

Academic Positions

2017 - Continues

Research Assistant

Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı

Managerial Experience

2023 - Present

Akredite edilmiş bir bölüm/program kadrosunda görev almak

Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı

Courses

Undergraduate

Popular Culture

Literary Genres: Drama

Graduation Project

Taught Courses and Trainings

2024 - 2024

Creative Writing Workshop

Academic Units - Certificate Program

Kabak M.

Representation and Promotion Activities

Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü Çevrimiçi Tanıtım Etkinliği

Institutional Promotion, T.C. İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, Turkey, İstanbul, 2025 - 2025

Kültür Koleji Kariyer Günleri

Institutional Promotion, Kültür Koleji, Turkey, İstanbul, 2025 - 2025

18. DİLKO Kariyer Günleri

Institutional Promotion, DİLKO Bakırköy, Turkey, İstanbul, 2024 - 2024

17. DİLKO Kariyer Günleri

Institutional Promotion, DİLKO Bakırköy, Turkey, İstanbul, 2023 - 2023

Articles

2021

1. **On the Utopian Possibility in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed: A Lacanian Reading**

KABAK M.

SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS , pp.177-190, 2021 (ESCI)

2021

2. **MARGARET ATWOOD'S "ORYX AND CRAKE" AS A CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGICAL UTOPIANISM**

KABAK M.

ENGLISH STUDIES AT NBU , no.1, pp.37-50, 2021 (ESCI)

2020

3. Edebiyat ve Popüler Kültürde Ütopyacılık ve Nostalji Üstüne

Kabak M.

Türk Edebiyatı Genç Sanat Dergisi , no.33, pp.4-11, 2020 (Non Peer-Reviewed Journal)

2020

4. An Evaluation of Liminality in Nadine Gordimer's July's People

KABAK M.

LITERARY VOICE , no.12, pp.86-94, 2020 (ESCI)

2019

5. On the Theme of Nostalgia in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Windup Girl

Kabak M.

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi , vol.18, pp.81-91, 2019 (TRDizin)

Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences

2026

1. Satires of Ecology in Neo-Victorian Fiction

KABAK M.

ViaTalks 2026, İstanbul, Turkey, 09 April 2026, (Summary Text)

2024

2. Paradise Regained: Aemilia Lanyer's Self-Reflexive Lyricism and Female Utopian Community in Salve Deus Rex Judæorum

KABAK M.

The 2024 Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Utopia and Democracy, Budapest, Hungary, 3 - 05 July 2024, (Summary Text)

2022

3. The Ethical Game Design in Life is Strange

KABAK M.

Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 17 - 19 November 2022, (Summary Text)

2022

4. 'If Libertie they finde, then Anarchie they make:' Sources of Sovereignty in Fulke Greville's Mustapha

Kabak M.

Spectacular Orientalism in Early Modern Europe (1529-1683), London, England, 8 - 09 June 2022, (Summary Text)

2021

5. "The book stinks of Victorianism:" The Victorian Past and Scottish Identity in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things

KABAK M.

International Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Conference 2021, Turkey, 02 September 2021, (Summary Text)

2021

6. The Aesthetics of Apocalypse in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Saleema Nawaz’s Songs for the End of the World

KABAK M.

Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture, Nevşehir, Turkey, 13 - 15 January 2021, pp.58, (Summary Text)

2019

7. Utopian Visions in Dystopian Spaces: Space and Identity Relations in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

KABAK M.

The Fifth International Literature and ... Conference, İstanbul, Turkey, 31 October - 01 November 2019, (Summary Text)

2019

8. Intertextuality and Nostalgia in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

KABAK M.

13. Uluslararası IDEA Konferansı: Studies in English, Gaziantep, Turkey, 24 - 26 April 2019, pp.89, (Summary Text)

2018

9. Through the Darkness of Future Past: How Twin Peaks: The Return Transformed Television

KABAK M.

Ege University, International ASGRAD Symposium, İzmir, Turkey, 22 - 23 October 2018, (Summary Text)

Books

2021

1. The Post-Apocalyptic Aesthetics of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

Kabak M.

in: Apocalyptic Visions in the Anthropocene and the Rise of Climate Fiction, Baysal Kübra, Editor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, pp.201-212, 2021

Activities in Scientific Journals

2026 - Present

KÜLTÜRK, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Araştırmaları Dergisi

Foreign Language Redactor

Student Project

2025 - Continues

Percy B. Shelley’nin The Masque of Anarchy Şiirinin Eko-Eleştirel İncelemesi

Other

Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı, Turkey

Memberships and Roles in Scientific Organizations

2022 - Continues

English Language and Literature Research Association of Türkiye

Member

Scientific Consultations

2025 - Continues

Project Consultancy

TÜBİTAK

Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı, Turkey

Mobility Activity

2022 - 2023

Erasmus Programme

Research During Graduate Education

Universitaet Konstanz, Germany

Scholarships

2023 - 2023