Pelin Kivrak

Pelin Kivrak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College, where she teaches courses on global literature, literary theory, history of the novel, cultural translation, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Her research explores contemporary world-making, politics of representation, and the intersection of literature with visual arts and digital media cultures. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, symplokē, and the Journal of World Literature, among others. Beyond her academic work, she is a Research Associate at RAS, a leading emerging media arts studio in Los Angeles. Her curatorial and critical texts have accompanied new media installations at major institutions around the world.Kivrak holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale and a BA in Literature from Harvard. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center and taught in the English Department at Tufts University.

Current Courses
LI120: Introduction to Literary Studies 
LI211: Contemporary Middle Eastern Narratives 
LI416: Cultural Translations 
LI423: The Global Novel 
LI423: Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters