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Merve Tabur
University of Oslo
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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ABOUT
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
Turkish
Arabic
Gender/Women's Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Middle East/Near East Studies
Theory
Environment
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
Abstracts
On Self, Specters and Seeds: Poetics of Potentiality and Female Diasporic Subjectivities in Lisa Suhair Majaj’s Geographies of Light Reading Baudrillard in Istanbul: Theory as Fiction in Murat Mentes's The Dilemma of the Double Ecological Futures and Biopolitics in Iraq+100 Urban Ecology and Literary Form in Ahmed Naji's Using Life