A doctoral student in Maryland... Trying to be an interdisciplinarian... I am also a musician...

My personality and beliefs do not reflect my Turkish background at all... Most probably because I have travelled so much that I cannot feel connected to any nation or culture anymore... That is, I developed my own hybrid character... Also, sorry to disappoint those who think anyone from a "Muslim" country (a term I hate) is a Muslim, but you will have to get rid of those stereotypes... I am an agnostic... (and do not enjoy speaking about faith and similar topics... I just live the moment!

As for academics, I am into Media and Cultural Studies, and of course Popular Culture... We can definitely go into philosophical conversations about all those (if you like)... ;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Why am I here? Well, easy answer, I travel a lot, and I like meeting new people in places I visit... I like it because we are only a bunch of creatures happened to be born into this wild world in the middle of an immense universe, and we deserve to know each other.

Interests

Academic: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Television Studies and Adaptation Studies...

Other: Traveling, meeting people from other cultures, clubbing, giving concerts, and of course reading as a PhD student :)

• culture
• concerts
• clubbing
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• communications
• cultural studies

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Indian, New Age, Soft Rock, R&B, Country, Turkish, Arabic...
Movies: A beautiful mind, Spirited Away, Finding Neverland, Creation, and hundreds others...
Books: Said's Orientalism, Barthes' Mythologies, Levine's Provoking Democracy, (man, I am crazy about many books in Cultural Studies and this list would never end! Let me just pause here...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spending a month in an deserted island in Thailand with 5 other friends...

Teach, Learn, Share

I am an interculturalist and an interdisciplinarian (at least trying to be) ... I am not a regular Turkish guy... My past travels hybridized my identity, my ideologies, and my culture...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My music, my life-long experiences, academics, many things about Cultural Studies, Media Studies... and of course popular culture... (best part... we can either go into deep philosophical discussions about Popular Culture, or just forget about the academics and enjoy the Popular Culture...)

Btw, I am an open-minded person, a liberalist, definitely nonreligious...

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Turkey, United States