Publications, Talks and Conference Papers

Journal Articles

• 2025. "Unraveling the Ideological Illusion of Work-Life Balance: Lessons from Severance." Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 107-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2025.9
• 2018. "A Brief Gramscian Analysis of the First Five Years of the AKP: How the Organic Intellectuals of Turkey Helped Cement the Power of Erdoğan and His Party." Satura, vol. 1, pp. 35-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17879/satura-2018-3142.

Book Chapter

• 2025. "Renegotiating the Utopian “No-Place” in Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway." In Spaces and Places in the Fantastic: Exploring Fantastic Geographies, edited by Kristin Aubel, Sarah Edwards, and Christian Lenz, Cambridge Scholars, pp. 114-129.

Book Review

• 2025. "Soundscapes and Wordscapes: Music and Literature in Dialogue." C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, vol. 12, no. 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.17986

Translation

• 2017. Ay Zalim Bir Sevgilidir. İthaki Yayınları, Istanbul. Translated from the English original, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, first published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966.

Talks and Conference Papers

• 2026. 'Laughing in the Face of Neoliberal Adversity: Jennifer Government as Anti-Corporate Satire.' Speculative Cultures Workshop, TU Braunschweig, 07/02/2026.
• 2025. 'Raging Against the Corporate Machine in Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor'. English Department Dissertation Workshop, University of Münster, 27/06/2025.
• 2024. 'Workplace Democracy on Screen: The Unionization Struggle in Superstore'. Popular Culture and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward, Uni Freiburg, 25/10/2024 [presented online].
• 2024. 'Raging Against the Corporate Machine in Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor'. Electricdreams – Between Fiction and Society III. Conflicts and Margins: Imagining Otherness, Ecocatastrophes, Perpetual War, Technological Imbalance, and Systemic Injustice Through Speculative Fiction, Università IULM, 10/10/2024.
• 2023. Discussant for 'From Festivals and Sports to Arts and Crafts: The Power of Popular Culture in Morocco' by Prof. Dr. Amina Boubia. Part of the international workshop 'Plurality Contested: Moroccan Cultural and Intellectual Production as the New Political'. University of Münster, 01/12/2023.
• 2023. 'Unraveling the Illusion of "Work-Life Balance": Lessons from Severance'. Disruptive Imaginations, Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF) and Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), TU Dresden, 15/08/2023.
• 2022. 'Renegotiating the Utopian "No-Place" in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway'. Fantastic Geographies, 13th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF), TU Dortmund, 22/09/2022.
• 2022. 'Envisioning an Anarchist Future in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway'. Anarchist Futures, Anarchist Studies Conference 7, online, 24/08/2022.
• 2022. 'Gezi Park: A Glimpse of a Post-Catastrophic Utopia'. Summer School: "Tacet ad Libitum! Towards a Poetics and Politics of Silence", University of Münster, 27/07/2022.
• 2022. 'Mediating Scarcity and Abundance Through Utopia in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway'. Abundance and Scarcity, International Conference for Early Career Researchers, Bordeaux Montaigne University, 18/02/2022.
• 2022. 'Nowhere/Somewhere Better Than This: The Critique of Neoliberal Ideology in Marxist and Anarchist Utopian Literature'. Lecture Series 'Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies and Linguistics', University of Münster, 18/01/2022.
• 2021. 'Catastrophe as a Utopian Premise'. Graduate Student Symposium 'Silence - Catastrophe - Crisis', University of Münster, 03/12/2021.