Murat Kabak, PhD

Istanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Science and Letters

Department of English Language and Literature

Istanbul, Turkey

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
2020 – 2026
Boğaziçi University, Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, English Literature Program

Thesis title: Ecologies of Satire in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Thesis Advisor: Assistant Professor Burcu Kayışçı Akkoyun (Boğaziçi University)

Master of Arts
2017 – 2020
Boğaziçi University, Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, English Literature Program

Research focus: Utopian fiction, Anglo-American fiction, contemporary theory and criticism

Thesis title: The Politics of Nostalgia in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

Thesis Advisor: Associate Professor Ayşe Naz Bulamur Baypınar (Boğaziçi University)

Bachelor of Arts
2013 – 2017
Istanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of English Language and Literature

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Istanbul Kültür University

2025 – 2026 Spring Semester

ENL4005 – Literary Genres: Drama
ENL2003 – Popular Culture