Pelin Kivrak entered the PhD program in Comparative Literature at Yale University in 2012 after spending a year in Istanbul as part of the creative team at Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled Imperfect Cosmopolitanisms, examines the relations that several late twentieth-century novelists and filmmakers from the Near East bear to the concepts of cosmopolitanism and hospitality. Her broader research and teaching interests include realism and visual culture, modern and contemporary fiction, intellectual history of the 20th century, history of feminism and the study of the novel. She was the recipient of the MacMillan International Dissertation Fellowship and spent an academic year (2016-2017) conducting research in Istanbul, Tehran and Paris. Kivrak is a fellow at the MLA Connected Academics Program in New York this year. She holds a BA degree in Literature from Harvard University. In 2017 she was the winner of the Yaşar Nabi Nayır Short Story Award.
“Where’s all this dust coming from? It feels like all the dust in the world’s in this house.” “What’s wrong, Ikbal? Why are you complaining again?” “Dust, Kemal ...
