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<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nE-Mail:<\/strong> kara.mccormack@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a> Kara McCormack is an American cultural studies scholar, with a focus on the American West and science fiction, including film, television, and public space. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico.<\/p>\n Her work has been published in The Journal of American Studies<\/em>,\u00a0The Journal of Arizona History, <\/em>and by the Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Her first book, Imagining Tombstone: The Town too Tough to Die<\/em>, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2016; a chapter from this book, \u201cHistorians\u2019 Gunfight,\u201d was reprinted in A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told<\/em>, by the University of North Texas Press in 2019.<\/p>\n Her 2022 essay, \u201cSearching for Wyatt Earp in Anatolia: The American West in the Turkish Imagination,\u201d examines the ways the West as a global mythic site has been transformed into a local expression of Turkish identity. This work was published in a special issue of the Journal of Arizona History<\/em>, for which she also served as guest editor.<\/p>\n More recent academic work explores the ways the tropes of the American West emerge in and intersect with science fiction. Her article, \u201cHome. Family. Future: Authenticity, the Frontier Myth, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes<\/em>,\u201d was published in ContactZone: Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/em> in the spring of 2022. Recently published from The Journal of American Studies<\/em> is “Women’s Work in the Dystopian West: The Colonies in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s<\/em> Tale<\/em>,” which examines the ways the region known as the Colonies in the series utilizes western myth to reimagine the American West as an entirely female space. In the works is a study of the intersection of race, memory, and UFO tourism in Roswell, New Mexico, and a mapping of E.M. Forster’s conception of “the imponderable bloom” onto Apple TV’s Silo<\/em>.<\/p>\n She has taught courses at the University of New Mexico, Stanford University, and Tufts University. At Bilkent, she teaches Introduction to American Studies I and II, Imagining the American West, and Science Fiction in American Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Assistant Professor E-Mail: kara.mccormack@bilkent.edu.tr Phone: +90 (312) 290 1727 Office: G-115B Full CV Kara McCormack is an American cultural studies scholar, with a focus on the American West and science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2747\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPhone: <\/strong>+90 (312) 290 1727
\nOffice:<\/strong> G-115B<\/p>\nFull CV<\/a><\/h4>\n