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 Information
2020 - Continues
2020 - ContinuesDoctorate
Bogazici University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İngiliz Edebiyatı (Dr), Turkey
2017 - 2020
2017 - 2020Postgraduate
Bogazici University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İngiliz Edebiyatı (Yl) (Tezli), Turkey
2013 - 2017
2013 - 2017Undergraduate
Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili Ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey
Dissertations
2020
2020Postgraduate
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
C2 MasteryEnglish
Certificates, Courses and Trainings
2016
2016Pedagojik Formasyon Sertifika Programı
Education Management and Planning
İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi
Research Areas
English Language and Literature
American Culture and Literature
Academic Titles / Tasks
2017 - Continues
2017 - ContinuesResearch Assistant
Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı
Managerial Experience
2023 - Continues
2023 - ContinuesAkredite edilmiş bir bölüm/program kadrosunda görev almak
Istanbul Kultur University, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı
Representation and Promotion Activities
17. DİLKO Kariyer Günleri
Institutional Promotion, DİLKO Bakırköy, Turkey, İstanbul, 2023 - 2023
Articles Published in Other Journals
2021
2021MARGARET ATWOOD'S "<i>ORYX AND CRAKE</i>" AS A CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGICAL UTOPIANISM
KABAK M.
ENGLISH STUDIES AT NBU
, no.1, pp.37-50, 2021 (ESCI)
2021
2021On the Utopian Possibility in Ursula K. Le Guin's <i>The Dispossessed</i>: A Lacanian Reading
KABAK M.
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS
, pp.177-190, 2021 (ESCI)
2020
2020Edebiyat 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
2020An Evaluation of Liminality in Nadine Gordimer's <i>July</i>'<i>s People</i>
KABAK M.
LITERARY VOICE
, no.12, pp.86-94, 2020 (ESCI)
2019
2019On 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 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Refereed Congress / Symposium Publications in Proceedings
2024
2024Paradise 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
2022
2022The Ethical Game Design in Life is Strange
KABAK M.
Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 17 - 19 November 2022
2022
2022'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
2021
2021"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
2021
2021The 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
2019
2019Utopian 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
2019
2019Intertextuality 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
2018
2018Through 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
Books & Book Chapters
2021
2021The 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
Scholarships
2023 - 2023
2023 - 2023