Pinar Tasdemir

Pinar Tasdemir is a PhD student in the Department of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her BA and MA in English literature at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, with a completed program in film studies. Her research primarily centers on Romanticism and the gothic novel with a focus on materialisms, aesthetics, and political theory. She is interested in exploring new avenues for rethinking the biopolitics and aesthetics of form by looking at the organic bond between Romantic thought and the dominant ideologies emerging in the modern world.