Pinar Tasdemir
Email: tasdemir@wisc.edu
Year Admitted: 2019
Bio:
Pinar Tasdemir is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at UW-Madison. She received her BA and MA in English Literature at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she also obtained a certificate in Film Studies. Her dissertation examines American true crime narratives and political economy’s impact on the genre’s structures with a focus on mass culture, ideology, and Marxist literary theory.
Interests:
20th & 21st century American crime fiction and true crime; political theory; law and literature; media and popular culture studies; genre and novel theory
Degree(s) and Institution:
B.A., English, Bogazici University
M.A., English, Bogazici University
Selected Publications:
“Art, Resistance, and the University: The Case of BounSergi”. World Humanities Report, CHCI, 2022.