Ayten Tartici is a literary critic and scholar. Her essays, book reviews and film criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Slate and The Yale Review, among other publications. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale, a BA in Government & Comparative Literature from Harvard and was an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown, where she served as a board member at the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. She has taught in the English and Comparative Literature departments at Columbia University and the Cooper Union. She is an editorial consultant for 212 Magazine  and is working on her first book. She currently lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

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