Merve Tabur is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Penn State University. Her research examines narratives of environmental destruction from the Middle East and engages with scholarship in the fields of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. Merve is also a translator of academic books and articles on literary theory, history, and feminism from English into Turkish.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Comparative
Environment
Gender/Women's Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Theory
Turkish
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iraq
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Turkey
Specialties
Environmental Humanities
Postcolonial Studies
Modern Turkish And Arabic Literature
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
DPhil
| 2021
| Comparative Literature
| Pennsylvania State University
MA
| 2014
| Comparative Literature
| Dartmouth College
