Abstract
In Western literature, particularly in English literature, the kind of novel that deals with university academic life is named as academic/campus novel though it has not been known much in Turkish literature. In this kind of novels, the main character is usually an academic person who works in university. Besides, this academic person is usually a professor at English department. The main stream at the back of this kind of novels is to criticize the academic order and academic people in that period. Therefore, the language of these novels is usually ironic and satirical. Furthermore, the academic people in these novels usually have problems with themselves, the period, the society, and the colleagues. In this paper, Malcom Bradbury’s Eating People is Wrong from English literature and Oğuz Atay’s Bir Bilim Adamının Romanı from Turkish literature are comparatively studied in the context of academic/campus novel genre, and the findings are evaluated with a comparative method. After this comparative study, it has been identified that both novels have the academic/campus novel traits and can be given as examples of this genre.