Spotlight on Humanities Pedagogy: Dr. Ayten Tartici’s “Hyphenated Americans”
Ayten Tartici, 2020-21 ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown Humanities, designed and taught “Hyphenated Americans.” Envisioned as a course that would focus on contemporary literature, art and film produced by American immigrants and their descendants, this class was offered through Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies and the Department of English. Dr. Tartici wanted to use the course as a tool to study how—contrary to the historical expression of American nativism as exemplified by the formation of the Dillingham Commission in the early 20th century—the narratives of immigrants form a core feature of the American literary and cultural landscape and have given rise to new forms of experimental writing.
Us & Them Reading Series (Winter 2021)
On February 19, 2021, Dr. Tartici read her latest translations of the Turkish writer Tomris Uyar as well as some of her poetry as part of the Winter 2021 installment of Us&Them, a quarterly writer-translator reading series organized by Sam Bett and Todd Portnowitz. Us&Them gives literary translators with parallel careers as writers a place to showcase both sides of their work. Readings are hosted four times a year at Molasses Books in Bushwick.
Humanities in Action: Academics and Public Writing
On September 24, 2020, “Academics and Public Writing” panel at Georgetown University featured Paul Elie (Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs), Cóilín Parsons (Director of the Global Irish Program), Ayten Tartici (ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow), and Karen Stohr (Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics). In a stimulating conversation they discussed their experiences as writers for an extramural audience.
Georgetown Humanities Initiative Welcomes First Postdoctoral Fellow
Ayten Tartici (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University) joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2020–21 academic year as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices postdoctoral fellow.
Ayten Tartici ’19 is awarded the 2020 John Addison Porter Prize
Ayten Tartici has been awarded the 2020 John Addison Porter Prize, one of the few prizes awarded by Yale university-wide, for her dissertation submitted in fall 2019 under the title Adagios of Form. Ayten Tartici won this highly prestigious prize for a work which highlights figures of slowness in modernist prose – instead of speed – as the distinctive poetic and political quality of the works she studies.