A. Karabiyik (Aybüke) MA

Aybüke (she/her) holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Social Work and Policy, as well as a master’s degree in English, both from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In her Master’s thesis, she analyzed Driftpile Cree Nation author Billy-Ray Belcourt’s depiction of the Indigiqueer body in his poetry and life writing.

Her PhD project, titled "Indigenous Ecologies of Technology: Towards a Critical Appreciation of Contemporary “Technological” (Post-)Apocalyptic Indigenous Literatures," investigates the relationship between technological elements and decolonial futurities in contemporary (post-)apocalyptic Indigenous literatures. More precisely, it looks into how and why the combination of technology with literatures contributes to the revitalization of Indigenous cultures, imagining of decolonial futurity, and Indigenous survivance in (post-)apocalyptic settler cis-heteropatriarchal spaces.

Aybüke has taught undergraduate seminars at the Universities of Fribourg and Geneva before starting her PhD at Radboud. Her general research interests include Queer Literatures, Indigenous Literatures from Turtle Island, African American Literature, the Harlem Renaissance, Technological Literary Writing, Queer and Gender Studies, and Feminist Studies.