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ABOUT
Jason Vivrette is the Coordinator of the Turkish Language and Literature Program at UC Berkeley. He has previously served as the Co-Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Program at San Francisco State University (2012-2014) and Co-Director of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Summer Arabic Program in Tunis (2010-2012). He holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley (emphases in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Italian), and was trained in Film Production and Film Theory at the University of Southern California.
His research centers on the construction of identity and space in and through literature, especially in poetry and film. In particular, he is interested in contested sites--both literary and literal--at the intersection of languages and cultures.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Arabic
Language Acquisition
Turkish
19th-21st Centuries
Translation
Turkish Studies
Transnationalism
Kurdish
Kurdish Studies
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Ottoman Studies
Persian
13th-18th Centuries
Turkic Languages
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Anatolia
Cyprus
Kurdistan
Syria
Tunisia
The Levant
Iran
Libya
Mediterranean Countries
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Italian (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Greek (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Armenian (intermediate)
Kurdish (intermediate)
Azeri (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2010
| Comparative Literature
| University of California, Berkeley
BA
| 2002
| Cinema-Television Production
| University of Southern California
BA
| 2002
| Italian
| University of Southern California
Abstracts
Teaching Context and Register Through Arabic Film and Media in the CLS Summer Programs
National Literature Defi(n)ed: Writing Beyond Turkish in the Work of Mehmet Yaşın and Yılmaz Odabaşı
