S. BURAN UTKU, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of English and Writing

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Tampa, FL 33606-1490

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Co-Founder and Manager of the Journal of Posthumanism Email: ad5cga@r.postjobfree.com & ad5cga@r.postjobfree.com & ad5cga@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn Profile

EDUCATION

Associate Professorship, World Languages and Literatures, Council of Higher Education, Turkey, 2021. Ph.D., English, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2014 Ph.D., English Culture and Literature, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey, 2010 M.A., Linguistics, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2008 B.A., English Language and Literature, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 2005 Ongoing

Master’s PG Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership The International Business School, Manchester, UK 2024 &

Master’s Hospitality and Business Management MUMA College USF 2024 Summer & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Writing, University of Tampa, USA, August 2023-present Visiting Assistant Professor in English, University of Florida, USA, January 2022-present Salesforce Admin/Developer (Professional Writer) in Pureitcon Company, Delaware, USA Remote, December 2018 - Present

Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California Riverside, USA, 2020-2022

Visiting Assistant Professor in English, University of California Riverside, California, USA, December 2018-2020

Associate Professor of World Languages, Cultures and Literature, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey, 2021&

Assistant Professor of English, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey, 2018-2021 Assistant Professor of English, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey, 2016-2018 Assistant Professor of English, Ataturk University, Turkey, 2014-2016 Research Assistant of English, Ataturk University, Turkey, 2010-2014 Lecturer, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey, 2006-2010 SHORT-TERM PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Academic in English, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2015. Erasmus+ Teaching Lecturer, Higher Vocational State School, Wloclawek, Poland, 2015 Visiting Academic in Art, Design and Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 2013 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE – Writing

Technical/Professional Writer, Pureitcon Company, Delaware, USA Remote, December 2018 - Present Director, Writing Center, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006-2010 Director, Writing Curriculum Design and Program, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006-2010 Curriculum Committee Member, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006-2010 Assistant Director, Placement Testing Office, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006-2010 Director of Student Clubs (Drama Club, Dance Club, Outdoors Sports and Climbing Club), Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006-2010

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE – General

President of International Affairs, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 President of International Projects Office, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 Institutional General Coordinator of Erasmus Program, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 Institutional General Coordinator Bologna Program, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 Institutional General Coordinator Mevlana Program, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 Institutional General Coordinator Farabi Program, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018 Faculty Administrative Committee, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2016-2018

TUBITAK Projects Commission Member of Rectorate, Ataturk University 2015-2016 Faculty Coordinator of TUBITAK Projects, Faculty of Letters, Ataturk University, 2015-2016 Department Coordinator of Erasmus Program, Department of English Language and Literature, Ataturk University 2015-2016.

RESEARCH FIELDS

● Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Ecocene, Ecohumanism, Posthumanism, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, and TechnoFeminism, Feminist Technoscience, Cyber/Cyborg, Fantasy

● Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women, Queer, Race, and Sexuality Studies, Women in Science, Class, and Ethnicity, Femicide, Diaspora, Violence against Women, Problems of Women in Academia, Gender Politics

● Anglo/American Literature, Afropean Diasporas, Euro-Asian Literature, World Languages and Fiction, Comparative Literature, AfroTurkish Literature, Postcolonialism, Afrofuturism

● Literary Criticism, Film, Cultural Studies, and Media

● Religious Futurisms, Sufism, Spiritual Posthumanism, Postreligionism, Shamanism

● Writing, Professional writing, tech-writing, AI writing, Composition, Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

HONORS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Editor Award by the Transnational Press London for excellence service as the editor of the Posthumanism Series and Journal of Posthumanism, 2021 The UC Speculative Futures Collective Research Grant Award for the Proposal, “From Environmental Toxicity to the Reproductive Sterilization of Women” by The UC Speculative Futures Collective, Speculative Futures Grant Recipient, 2020. TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Science Fellowship Grant Award for Post-Doctoral Research, 2018.

Enterprising Educator of the Year Award for entrepreneurship in academic and scientific fields, KeD Publishing, November 14, 2016, Turkey, 2016.

Scientific Promotion Award: for successful Scholarly Book in the Humanities, by Ataturk University, 2015.

PATENTS

Trademark Registration of Literary Value, Patent, Intellectual Property and Registration, Patent no: 47239, Turkish Patent and Trademark Institution, 2016 for TechnoFeminist SF entry. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Companies: Professional and Technical Writing 2018 & University of Tampa (Bachelor’s Courses)

Fall 2023-2024

AWR 201: Academic Writing and Research: Posthuman Gothic Ecology Istanbul Medeniyet University (Bachelor’s Courses) Fall 2018-2019

ELT 203: English Literature

Social Sciences University of Ankara

Fall 2017-2018

1/ELIT 103: Survey of English Literature

1/ELIT 110: Intense Academic Writing & Research

Ataturk University (Post-grad. Courses)

Fall 2015-2016

IND 539: Introduction to Science Fiction Studies

IND 541: Introduction to Feminist STS

IND 540: Introduction to World Literature and Culture Fall 2014-2015 Spring 2014-2015

IND 539: Introduction to Science Fiction Studies IND 542: Contemporary Women Studies IND 541: Introduction to Feminist STS

IND 540: Contemporary World Literature and Culture Ataturk University

Fall 2015-2016

ID 13: Mythology I

ID 34: Narratology Ecocriticism I

ID 162: Advanced Speaking I

Fall 2014-2015 Spring 2014-2015

ID 32: Modern Novel ID 32: Postmodern-Postcolonial Novel ID 34: Narratology Ecocriticism ID 34: Narratology Ecocriticism II ID 15: Advanced/Professional Writing I ID 25: Advanced/Professional Writing II ID 162: Advanced Speaking I ID 262: Advanced Speaking II YFR 56: Composition I YFR 66: Composition II

YFR 76: Translation I (English to Turkish) YFR 86: Translation II (English to Turkish) YFR 77: Translation I (Turkish to English) YFR 87: Translation II (Turkish to English) YFR 16: Speaking I YFR 47: Speaking IV

YFR 17: Grammar I YFR 48: Grammar-Syntax IV

YFR 37: Speaking III YFR 67: Text Interpretation

YFR 38: Grammar-Syntax III

Fall 2013-2014 Spring 2013-2014

ID 34: Narratology ID 34: Narratology

YFR 16: Speaking I

Fall 2012-2013

ID 12: Listening and Speaking

Spring 2011-2012

YFR 27: Speaking II

Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University

Fall and Spring 2006-2010

ELT (English Language Teaching)

Rhetoric and Composition

Language Skills (Writing, Speaking, Reading, Grammar) Erasmus Exchange Teaching in Europe

Croatia: Zagreb University in Department of

Philology: British Romanticism, Bachelor’s

Level

Introduction to Gothic Literature and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bachelor’s Level TechnoFeminism, Bachelor’s Level

Poland: Higher Vocational State School in Wloclawek: Speaking, Writing and Cultural Studies, College

Level

THESIS/DISSERTATION SUPERVISION

Masters

Muberra Buran. Posthuman Drama. Ankara University. Co-supervisor (ongoing). Ayça Nur Dursun. Cyberfeminism: As a Solution to Gender Inequality. Kutahya Dumlupinar University. 2020. Co-Supervisor.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Hasan Avşar. Authenticity and Originality in AI-generated Literary Works: A study of Open AI, GPT-4, and Their Reflections on English Language and Literature. Ongoing. Co-Supervisor (ongoing). Cansu Kösem Işık. Information and Communication Technologies and Subject as a Form of Interaction. Maltepe University. 2023. Jury Committee Member.

SCHOLARSHIP: PUBLICATIONS

Ongoing Publications based on my Eco-Post-Humanities Project

“Ecofeminism in the Anthropocene: Intersections of Gender and Environmental Narratives”

“Ecocritical Dissections of Bio-Hacked Dystopias: A Study of Alienation in Contemporary Netflix Films”

“Woolf’s Ecological Queerness: Challenging Anthropocentrism through Literary Ecocriticism”

“Sustainable Futures in Posthuman Epoch: Ecocritical Intra-Actions and Insights into Emerging Blue Humanities”

“Toxicity and Reproductive Femininity in the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene”

“Ecoconscious Resilience and Environmental Humanities: An Ecocritical Perspective on Navigating Posthuman Symbiosis”

Books (refereed)

First Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Short Stories. Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Veli Ugur. Transnational Press London, 2023.

Shades of Violence: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts. Eds. Sümeyra Buran et al. Transnational Press London, 2023. Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction. Eds. Sherryl Vint and Sümeyra Buran, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies (Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm). Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet. Transnational Press London, 2022. Posthumanism in Literature (Edebiyatta Posthümanizm). Ed. Sümeyra Buran. Transnational Press London, 2020.

TechnoFeminist Science Fiction. Monograph. New York Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014. Forthcoming Books

Religious Futurisms. Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Jim Clarke. Liverpool University Press, 2024. Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film. Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Jire Gözen. Routledge, 2024. Su-fi: Sufi SF Spiritual Posthumanism. Routledge, 2024. Medical Posthumanities. UP, 2025.

Conference Proceedings

Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts – Conference Abstracts Book. Eds. Sümeyra Buran et al. Transnational Press London, 2021.

Representations of Violence In Literature, Culture And Arts Conference Full Paper Proceedings. Ed. Sümeyra Buran et al. Transnational Press London, 2021. Course Books

ELT (English Language-Literature Teaching), Ankara, Yargı Press, 2016. Writing Skill Collection Volume: Curriculum and Course Book for Writing Courses. Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2007.

Compiled Reading Texts. Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University, 2006. Published Dissertations

TechnoFeminist Science Fiction: Justina Robson’s Natural History and Sue Thosams’s Correspondence. Dissertation published by ProQuest LLC, University of Michigan, 2014. TechnoFeminist Science Fiction: Justina Robson’s Natural History and Sue Thomas’s Correspondence. Ph.D. Dissertation published by Ataturk University. The Effects of Computer Assisted Language Learning on Listening Comprehension Ability. Master Thesis published by Ataturk University, 2008.

Book Chapters

“Translating Posthuman Cosmo-science: De/re-constructing the Western ontology of time, space, and existence.” (ongoing). Palgrave.

“Tıbbi Posthümanizm ve Teknofeminizm.” Ağın, B., Yılmaz, Z.G. (Ed.). Beşerî Bilimlerin 50 Rengi: Çevreci, Dijital, Tıbbi ve Posthüman Sesler, pp. 471-79, Nevşehir: Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023.

“Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human.” Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction, Eds. Sherryl Vint and Sümeyra Buran. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 45-68.

“Introduction: Multidisciplinary Posthumanism/s (Giriş: Çokdisiplinli Posthümanizm/ler).” Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies (Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm). Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet. Transnational Press London, 2022.

“Hard Science Fiction.” Understanding Science Fiction: Critical Approaches to Subgenres

(Bilimkurguyu Anlamak: Alt Türlere Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar). Eds. Cem Kılıçarslan et al. Nobel, 2021. 51-71.

“Hero’s Solitude (Kahramanın Yalnızlığı).” Book of Solitude (Yalnızlığın Kitabı). Ed. Özlem Oğuzhan. Karakarga, 2021. 77-91.

“Posthumanism and Literature (Edebiyat ve Posthümanizm).” Posthumanism in Literature (Edebiyatta Postümanizm). Ed. Sümeyra Buran. Transnational Press London, 2020. 19-36.

“Biogenetic Posthuman Science Fiction: The Gene-Designed Children of Tomorrow and the Gene- Capitalist Class (Biyogenetik Posthüman Bilimkurgu: Yarının Gen-Tasarımlı Çocukları ve Gen-Kapitalist Sınıfları).” Posthumanism in Literature (Edebiyatta Postümanizm). Ed. Sümeyra Buran. Transnational Press London, 2020. 163-184.

“Women’s Studies and Women in Academia in Turkey.” The Gender Construction of Society. Ed. Ramona Mihaila. New York Addleton Academic Publishers, 2020. 503-513.

“Women Academics in Strategic Administrative Positions in Turkey’s Higher Education System.” DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i1.2099. Adaptability & Breakthrough: Academic Reform and Innovation in the new Ecology of Higher Education, Eds. Corina Adriana D8mitrescu et al. New York Addleton Academic Publishers, 2019. 343-356.

“Exploring the data on femicide across Europe.” Femicide Across Europe. Eds. Shalva Weil et al. Policy Press, 2018. 95-166.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Afropean Futurism, AfroTurks, and Posthuman Entanglements,” Science Fiction Studies, (ongoing).

“Violence against Women in Science: The Future of Gender and Science in Gwyneth Jones’s Life.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 62.3 (2021):253-268. Q1 Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

“Posthuman Mysticism: from the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift.” The Future of/as Inequality. SFRA Review. 51.4 (Fall 2021): 232-239.

“A Comparative Study on the Narrative Techniques of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.” Manas Journal of Social Studies. 10.1 (2021): 27-43.

“Biogenetic Science in Science Fiction.” 2020 Science Fictions, Popular Cultures (SFPC) Academic Conference at HawaiiCon, September 24-27, 2020.

“Fabulation of Alternate Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction.” SFRA Review, 50.4

(Fall 2020): 45-51.

“An Identity of One’s Own: Feminist Ideology and Identity Crisis of an Academic Woman in a Postmodern Feminist Fiction.” Söylem Journal of Philology. 5.2 (2020): 605-602.

“Death of “the” History: Alternative and Partial (Hi)Stories in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters, Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight`s Children.” Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences. Autumn 26 (2020): 471- 498. doi.org/10.9775/kausbed.2020.026

“hiSTORiographic Metafiction of the Past Time: A self-begetting novel To Whom It May Concern.” Kafkas University Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences. Autumn 22 (2018): 377-389. https://www.kafkas.edu.tr/dosyalar/sobedergi/file/22/07.pdf

“Correspondence between Cyborg Body and Cyber Self.” Journal of Research in Gender Studies. 5.2

(2015): 290-322.

“Interview with Sue Thomas on TechnoFeminist Approach and Correspondence.” Journal of Research in Gender Studies. 3.2 (2013): 140-146.

“The role of ICT in general economics teaching: an example from Turkey.” Int. J. of Education Economics and Development, 3.4 (2012):289 – 304.

“E-learning in life long education: A Computational approach to determining listening comprehension ability.” Educational and Information Technologies, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 16.1, (2011): 71-88.

Special Issue Editorials

“Editorial for the Special Issue on Migration, Education, and Youth.” Eds. Ana Vila Freyer and Sümeyra Buran. Migration Letters. 19.1 (2022): 1-3. doi.org/10.33182/ml.v19i1.2099.

“Editorial for the Special Issue on Philosophical Posthumanism Session at the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meeting.” Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Çağdaş Dedeoğlu. Journal of Posthumanism. 1.1 (2021): 1-4. doi.org/10.33182/joph.v1i2.2019

Translations:

“Preface: İkili Olmayan Bireylik - Personhood Without Binaries.” by Vint, Sherryl. Posthumanism in Literature (Edebiyatta Postümanizm), Transnational Press London, 2020. 9-18.

“Foreword: Posthuman/s/ism/s (Posthüman/lar/ism/ler).” by Sidney I. Dobrin. Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies (Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm). Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet. Transnational Press London, 2022. 23-31. Introduction Article in Novel

“Introduction to LIFE.” Gwyneth Jones’s Life. Gollancz, Gateway SF Series, February 2022. Papers in Conference Proceedings

“History and Personal Story: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Julian Barnes’s A History of the World ‘n 10/2 Chapters.” The Proceedings & Abstracts of ICONASH, 2018: 253-257.

“Feminist Approach to Lydia Maria Child’s Slavery’s Pleasant Homes A Faithful Sketch.” ICPESS 2018 PROCEEDINGS Volume 3: Social Studies, 2018: 721-733.

“Clare Booth Luce’s Slam the Door Softly-Rewriting As An Intertext.” ICPESS 2018 PROCEEDINGS Volume 3: Social Studies, 2018: 734-742. Published Project Report

“Femicide in Mediterranean Region.” by European Observatory on Femicide, 2020. SCHOLARSHIP: PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited and Keynote Speeches

Keynote Speaker. “Posthuman Fashion. ”10th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: “Fashion as Material Culture.” September 15-16, 202. https://llc2023.gumushane.edu.tr/en/keynote-speakers/ Guests of Honor. “Turkish Science Fiction: Introduction.” BulgaCon 2023 Convention, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria September 22-24, 2023.

Keynote Speaker. Science Fiction and Quantum Theory. Tübitak-BİDEB-2223 Workshop Project, Istanbul, Turkiye, February 26, 2022.

Keynote Speaker. “Intercultural Diversity in Disabled Posthuman Reality,” at Intercultural Diversity in the 21st Century; Education, Inclusion, and Labor Opportunities. December 3-4, 2021, Centro Studi Koine, Lecce, Italy.

Keynote Speaker. “Modified (Hu)Man: Traditions, Vulnerabilities and Possible Futures.” at The Film Forum: Iran at the Crossways: Documentaries and Dialogues on a Changing Society within the scope of IRSSC Project, Germany, November 12-13, 2021. Keynote Dialogue with Francesca Ferrando. “Human Violence / Post-Human Post-Violence.” at Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture, and Arts Conference. Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Turkiye, October 20-22, 2021.

Keynote Speaker. “At a Crossroads of Postcivilization: A History of the World in the Name of Toxic Civilization.” The 50th ISCSC (The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations) Anniversary Conference, Civilization at a Crossroads, at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania, September 2-4, 2021. Guest Speaker on Visiting Scholarship and Experience Share. International Affairs Meet and Greet Talks, University of California Riverside, United States, January 27, 2021. Keynote-Guest Speaker. “Women Academics in Strategic Administrative Positions in Turkey’s Higher Education.” World Women University Presidents Forum (WWUPF), Bucharest, June 1-5, 2017. Keynote Speaker. “Percentage of Girls in Vocational Schools in Turkish Higher Education and Statistical Percentages of Girls by Programs.” CoHE Women Studies and Problems in Academia Commission Meeting, The Council of Higher Education, December 2, 2016, Ankara. Guest Speaker. “Women’s Studies and Women in Academia in Turkey.” The Gender Construction of Society Conference, Dimitri Candemir Christian University, European Cooperation in Science and Technology Project, 22-24 April, 2016, Bucharest, Romania. Keynote Speaker. “Women Studies and Issues in Turkish Higher Education (Türkiye’de Akademide Kadın Çalışmaları ve Sorunları).” Atatürk Üniversitesi, Mavi Salon,, Erzurum, Turkiye, December 27, 2015

Keynote Speaker. “Women's Place in Cyber Work in Turkey.” At COST IS1202 Dynamics of Virtual Work, Peniche, Portugal, June 3-5, 2015.

Guest Speaker. “Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.” University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, Croatia, May 1, 2015. Guest Speaker. “TechnoFeminist Science Fiction.” University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, Croatia, April 30, 2015. Guest Speaker. “Introduction to Gothic Literature.” University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, Croatia, May 29, 2015. Guest Speaker. “British Romanticism: Prose.” University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, Croatia, May 28, 2015. Conference Papers and Presentations

“Bio-Hacked Posthuman-Xenofeminist Alienation in Annihilation,” Alien, SLSA-Arizona, October 26- 29, 2023

“Posthuman Queer Ecologies in Virginia Woolf’s Writing: Challenging Anthropocentric Boundaries” 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 8-11, 2023.

“Escaping the Disruptive Earth into the Blue Posthuman Future.” Disruptive Imaginations, SFRA- Dresden Conference, August 15-19, 2023.

“AfroTurks: Afro-Turks in Past, Present, and Future.” ICFA: Afrofuturism, organized by The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Florida, Orlando, March 15-18, 2023.

“Su-Fi: Cosmology of Time, Place, and Existence/Being in Sufi Futurism.” Futures from the Margins organized by CoFutures and University of Oslo, SFRA-Oslo Conference, 27 June-1 July 2022.

“Diverse Religious Futurisms Panel.” Panel Organizer with Jim Clarke in Futures from the Margins organized by CoFutures and University of Oslo, SFRA-Oslo Conference, 27 June-1 July 2022.

“Yes or No in the Dystopian Fantastic Nightmare Community of Netflix’s Squid Game.” The 43rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Fantastic Communities, organized by The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Florida, Orlando, March 16-20, 2022.

“Spiritual Posthumanism and Postreligious Futurisms in Sufi SF.” The Future of/as Inequality, SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association) 2021 Annual Conference, June 18-21, 2021, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada.

“Posthuman Worlds in Turkish SF.” Panel Organizer, The Future of/as Inequality, SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association) 2021 Annual Conference, June 18-21, 2021, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada.

“Posthuman Mysticism: from the Zero Point of Humanity to the Parallel Worlds in The Gift.” The Future of/as Inequality, SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association) 2021 Annual Conference, June 18-21, 2021, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada.

“Daughters of Mother Earth in the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene.” The 42nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Climate Change and the Anthropocene, organized by The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), Florida, Orlando, March 18-21, 2021.

“From Environmental Toxicity to Reproductive Sterilization on Women.” at UCI Symposium- Transnational Equivalences and Inequalities organized by UC Speculative Futures Collective, October 23, 2020.

“Biogenetic Science in Science Fiction.” 2020 Science Fictions, Popular Cultures (SFPC) Academic Conference at HawaiiCon, September 24-27, 2020.

“Beyond Borders of the Gender Binary: Towards Genderqueer Mirror Universe.” LSFRC (London Science Fiction Research Community) Beyond Borders: Empires, Bodies, Science Fictions, London, September 10-12, 2020.

“From Epidemics as the Revenge of Mother Earth to the Militarization of Women Refugees.” Modernism and Postmodernism Studies Conference 2020, Kocaeli University, Turkey, July 23-24, 2020.

“Fabulation of Alternate Parallel Universes: Queertopia in Turkish Science Fiction.” Cyberpunk Culture Cyberconference 2020, July 9-10, 2020.

“Daughters of Mother Earth Against Father Authority of Power, Capital, and Nature.” Virtual Research Conference - Literature and Creative Writing Panel. Organized by Center for Ideas and Society University of California Riverside, May 1, 2020.

“Feminist Approach to Lydia Maria Child’s Slavery’s Pleasant Homes A Faithful Sketch.” ICPESS 2018 5th International Congress on Political, Economic and Social Studies, Niğde/Turkiye, October 26-29, 2018.

“Clare Booth Luce’s Slam the Door Softly-Rewriting as An Intertext.” ICPESS 2018 5th International Congress on Political, Economic and Social Studies, Niğde/Turkiye, October 26-29, 2018.

“Obstacles to the Continuation of Education of Girls and Search for Solutions Conference.” European Union Pre-Accession Financial Cooperation (IPA) Program “Project on Increasing School Ratio of Girls KEP 2, Şanlıurfa, Mart 15-16, 2016.

“Women Image in Science Fiction Studies.” Ataturk University, Kültür Merkezi Mavi Salon, Erzurum, 15 May, 2015.

“TechnoWoman and her TechnoWorld.” Canadian International Conference on Humanities and Education at ILR NYC Conference Center, Cornell University, New York, 20-21th January 2015.

“Feminist Ideology of an Academic Woman in Margaret Drabble’s Milestone.” Gender Studies in the Age of Globalization, Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Letters, Bucharest, Romania, 2-3 June 2011.

Poster Presentations

“Violence Against Women in Science Fiction.” International Research Exhibition as part of International Education Week, University of California Riverside, Nov. 4-13, 2019. Panels

COST Action IS1206 Femicide Across Europe Final Conference, University of Malta, 14-16 March 2017. https://www.um.edu.mt/events/iccf2017

International Closing Meeting on Improving Gender Equality in Education (ETCEP), Ankara, September 1-2, 2016.

Sustainability Meeting for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Education (ETCEP) Steering Advisory Board), Demonti Hotel, Ankara, August 11, 2016.

“General Training: Turkey in Horizon 2020 Project”, European Union and TUBITAK, Konya, Feb. 16, 2016.

“Women Studies in Academia.” Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Dec. 03, 2015.

“Women in Academy: Current Situation, Problems and Suggestions.” Amasya University, Oct. 29, 2015. International Workshops

“Science Fiction and Quantum Theory Workshop.” Tübitak-BİDEB-2223B Workshop Project, February 26, 2022.

“13th Annual California STS Summer Retreat Workshop.” University of California Davis, Nature Bridge at Golden Gate San Francisco, June 7-9, 2019.

“Working Group Workshop.” COST Action IS1206 Femicide Across Europe Final Conference, University of Malta, 14-16 March 2017.

“BiTriMulti Training Course.” Erasmus + National Agency for the Youth Sector, Athens, Greece, February 15-19, 2017.

“Capacity Building Workshop for Researchers.” Horizon2020 “European Project Gender, Science, Technology, and Environment, GenderSTE, TN 1201” COST project workshop, Dimitri Candemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania, April 25, 2016.

“Capacity Building Workshop for Researchers” COST Targeted Network TN1201, Dimitri Candemir Christian University European Cooperation in Science and Technology Project, Bucharest, Romania, April 26, 2016.

COST IS1202 Dynamics of Virtual Work, Peniche, Portugal, June 3-5, 2015. Feminism Influence Inheritance Symposium, Queen Mary University of London, London, March 23, 2013.

National Workshops

“T.R. Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Secondary Education Secondary Education Curriculum Measurement and Evaluation Workshop.” İkbal Thermal Hotel, Afyon Karahisar, Feb 15-24, 2017.

“Volunteering Forum.” T. R. Ministry of EU Education and Youth Programs Center of the European Union (Turkey National Agency), Ankara, Turkiye, Dec. 1, 2016.

“Research Project of Addiction among University Students in Turkey (University Youth Profile Research)” (Workshop III), T. R. Ministry of Family and Social Policies, General Directorate of Family and Community Services, Ankara, Turkiye, September 21, 2016.

“Project Steering Committee Meeting on Increasing School Ratio of Girls (KEP 2) Project”, European Union Pre-Accession Financial Cooperation (IPA) Program, Ankara, Turkiye, September 6, 2016.

“T. R. Ministry of National Education Secondary Education, Training Programs Update Workshop.” Commission Study, Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Secondary Education, Programs and Teaching Materials Department, Adore Deluxe Hotel, Side, Antalya, Turkiye, July 15-19, 2016.

“Roadmap Workshop in Foreign Language Education Workshop.” T.C. Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Basic Education, Samsun, Turkiye, July 13-14, 2016. Workshop Trainer, 3 Days Training in Kars; “Capacity Building Workshop on Encouraging Especially Girls in Turkish Education System, Technical Assistance for Increasing School Attendance Rates Especially for Girls (IAREFG).” Kars, Turkiye, 31 May-02 June 2016.

“Ministry of National Education, Secondary Education, Updating Curriculum Workshop.” Commission Workshop, T. R. Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Secondary Education, Programs and Teaching Materials Department, Mirada Del Mar Hotel, Kemer, Antalya, Turkiye, May 28-30, 2016.

Workshop Trainer, 3 Days Training in Erzurum; “Capacity Building Workshop on Encouraging Especially Girls in Turkish Education System, Technical Assistance for Increasing School Attendance Rates Especially for Girls (IAREFG).” Erzurum, Turkiye, May 23-25, 2016.

“Ministry of National Education, Secondary Education, Updating Curriculum Workshop.” Commission Workshop,

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