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Dr. Merve Tabur

Lecturer 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
 
Humanities
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Transcomplex
Trans 10
Kamer 2.22B
3512 JK Utrecht

Dr. Merve Tabur

Lecturer
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
m.tabur@uu.nl
Profile Publications Activities In the media Teaching Ancillary activities Activities Contact
Profile Publications Activities In the media Teaching Ancillary activities Activities Contact
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Research areas

Publications

2026

Scholarly publications

Þórsson, B., Tabur, M., & Chattopadhyay, B. (Accepted/In press). This Thing We Call the Future: The Material Consequences of the Imagination. In M. R. Bjærke, B. Brenna, A. Ekström, & J. Ødemark (Eds.), Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters Bloomsbury Academic.

2025

Scholarly publications

Tabur, M. (2025). Ahmed Naji interviewed by Merve Tabur. Journal of Architecture, 30(3), 606-613. [DOI] [Portal]
Tabur, M., & Khan, S. A. (2025). Introduction: "The Spice Must Flow". In The speculative route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (pp. 1-10). Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
Tabur, M., & Khan, S. A. (Eds.) (2025). The speculative route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa. (Studies in Global Genre Fiction). Routledge. [DOI]

2024

Scholarly publications

Tabur, M. (2024). Review of Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, by Jörg Matthias Determann. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(4), 686-688. [DOI]
Kayışçı Akkoyun, B., Atasoy, E., & Tabur, M. (2024). Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean. Utopian studies, 35(1), 127-131. [DOI] [Portal]
Tabur, M. (2024). Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji's Using Life. Utopian studies, 35(1), 187-208. [DOI] [Portal]

Popularising publications

Chattopadhyay, B., & Tabur, M. (2024). CoFutures. Web publication/site, Sumac Space. https://sumac.space/dialogues/cofutures-bodhisattva-chattopadhyay-and-merve-tabur/
Chattopadhyay, B., & Tabur, M. (2024). CoFutures. In E. Bouffard, N. Dehina, & J. Grandjean (Eds.), Arabofuturs: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires (pp. 127-131). Manuella Editions.

2023

Scholarly publications

Tabur, M. (2023). Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction. Middle Eastern Literatures, 26(1), 76-98. [DOI]

2019

Scholarly publications

Tabur, M. (2019). A View from the Moon: Allegories of Representation in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm and H. G. Wells. Alif, 39, 63-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26596424
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