Biography
Başak Ağın is a faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature at TED University, where she heads the graduate programme. Her work covers posthuman theory, material ecocriticism, new materialisms, ecomedia, Gothic studies and science fiction.
She received her BA, MA and PhD from Hacettepe University. Before joining TED University she taught at the METU School of Foreign Languages from 2008 to 2021.
She is the founder and editor-in-chief of PENTACLE (Posthuman Entanglements of Culture, Literature, and Environment), the first Turkish platform dedicated to the posthumanities. With Şafak Horzum she co-edited Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and Media (Routledge).