Emrah Atasoy

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to starting at Warwick, I spent an academic year at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English Language and Literature as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. I completed a BA and PhD (Joint) in English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University, Türkiye, and taught at Hacettepe and Cappadocia Universities.

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship project is entitledFuturistic Narratives in Turkish Literature: 1950-2021: Speculation in the Anthropocene. This project aims to present a detailed discussion of Turkish futuristic narratives and speculation in the Anthropocene, covering the period between 1950 and 2021."

Research Interests

Speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, Turkish utopian & dystopian fiction, science fiction, twentieth-century literature, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, Anthropocene studies, cli-fi, posthumanism, comparative literature, world literature, pandemic fiction, apocalyptic fiction

Supervision

I am happy to supervise postgraduate work on speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, apocalyptic literature, science fiction, pandemic fiction, cli-fi, posthumanism, Anthropocene fiction, world literature, and comparative literature.

E-mail:Emrah.Atasoy@warwick.ac.uk 

Evelina Liarou

Evelina Liarou received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Patras in 2014, working on Analytical Chemistry and Nanotechnology.

In 2016, she received her M.Sc. Degree (1st Class Honours) in Polymer Chemistry from the National University of Athens, where she worked on the synthesis of multifunctional polypeptides and drug delivery systems.

In 2020 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, working in the group of Prof. David Haddleton on controlled radical polymerization. For the impact of her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Oxygen Tolerant Copper-mediated Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization”, she was awarded the “Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine PhD Thesis Prize 2021” from the University of Warwick.

In 2020 she received a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) to work on reversible polymer transformations until 2022 at Ghent University.

Since 2022 she is a Eutopia-SIF MSCA fellow at the University of Warwick, investigating polymerization mechanisms through advanced electron microscopy.

Sébastien Lapointe

Dr. Sébastien Lapointe is a Maria Skłodowska Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Department of Chemistry with Pr. Adrian B. Chaplin. His research aims to repurpose anthropogenic N2O emissions by establish the science underpinning the activation of N2O by homogenous transition-metal complexes and translate these findings into impactful catalytic applications.

Dr. Lapointe did his undergraduate studies at the University of Montréal (Montréal, QC, Canada). He then moved across the globe to do his Ph.D with Professor Julia R. Khusnutdinova at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Okinawa, Japan), where he received his degree in 2020. He did his first postdoc with Professor Viktoria H. Gessner at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, NRW, Germany).

Sarah Werner Boada

Sarah Werner Boada (PhD) is a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) at the IAS and Department of Sociology. Her current research project examines decisions to remove children from Romani and Traveller families in England and Spain from an intersectional perspective. Previously, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University (Vienna, Austria), where she taught at the postgraduate level.

A mother-scholar, qualitative researcher and supporter of feminist pedagogy, her teaching and research interests include Gender Violence, Motherhood studies, Antigypsyism, and other forms of inequality under neoliberal governance. She has also worked in policy advocacy, in collaboration with various intergovernmental and umbrella organisations, in the fields of gender violence and children’s rights.

Sarah's mother tongue is French, but she is also fluent in English, Spanish and German, and has notions of Romanian and Bulgarian.