Buran Utku

Biography

Educational Background

• MBA, University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2024
• Postdoc, University of California Riverside, 2020
• Ph.D., Ataturk University, 2014. M.A., AU, 2008. B.A., AU, 2005

Certifications & Memberships

• OIC – Online Instructor Certification Badge at Innovative Education Digital Learning, University of South Florida
• Certificate of Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking, Harvard University, 2023
• AI Tools at Work Course Certification, The Rundown University, 2024
• Salesforce Certifications: Expertise in CRM systems and AI coding
• Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer
• Salesforce Certified CPQ
• DevOps Fundementals Certificate

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Editor Award by the Transnational Press London for excellence service as the editor of the Posthumanism Series and Journal of Posthumanism, 2021
• The University of California 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.
• Scientific Promotion Award: for a Successful Scholarly Book in the Humanities (TechnoFeminist Science Fiction), by Ataturk University, 2015.

Selected Publications

• Books (refereed)

  • First Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction Short Stories. Transnational Press London, 2023.
  • Shades of Violence: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts. Transnational Press London, 2023.
  • Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
  • Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies, Transnational Press London, 2022.
  • Posthumanism in Literature, Transnational Press London, 2020.
  • TechnoFeminist Science Fiction. Monograph. New York Addleton Academic Publishers, 2014.
    
    

• Forthcoming Books:

  • Religious Futurisms. Liverpool University Press, 2024.
  • Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film. Routledge, 2024.
    
    

• 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.
  • “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.
    
    

• Book Chapters:

  • “Translating Posthuman Cosmo-science: De/re-constructing the Western ontology of time, space, and existence.” &. Palgrave.
  • Medical Posthumanism and Technofeminism." In Ağın, B., & Yılmaz, Z.G. (Eds.), The 50 Shades of Humanities: Environmental, Digital, Medical, and Posthuman Voices, pp. 471-79, Nevşehir: Cappadocia University Press, 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.” Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies. Eds. Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet. Transnational Press London, 2022.
  • “Hard Science Fiction.” Understanding Science Fiction: Critical Approaches to Subgenres. Eds. Cem Kılıçarslan et al. Nobel, 2021. 51-71.
  • “Hero’s Solitude.” Book of Solitude. Ed. Özlem Oğuzhan. Karakarga, 2021. 77-91.
  • “Posthumanism and Literature.” Posthumanism in Literature. Ed. Sümeyra Buran. Transnational Press London, 2020. 19-36.
  • “Biogenetic Posthuman Science Fiction: The Gene-Designed Children of Tomorrow and the Gene-Capitalist Class.” Posthumanism in Literature. Ed. Sümeyra Buran. Transnational Press London, 2020. 163-184.
  • “Women’s Studies and Women in Academia” 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.
    
    

• 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
    
    

• 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.

Accomplishments