Graduate Student, American Studies
Ph.D. Candidate, Teaching Fellow
Thesis Title: "Wild Westernization: Gender, Sexuality, and the United States in Turkey"
Matthew Jacobson
Laura Wexler
Joanne Meyerowitz
Seth Fein
About
Perin Gurel is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and a candidate for the graduate qualification in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is also a graduate associate for the Women, Religion, and Globalization Project at Yale and an associate of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Religion and Visual Culture. She holds a BA in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
Perin Gurel has presented and published papers on folklore and nationalism, globalization and sexuality, and on the problems of LGBT communities in urban Turkey. Her academic interests include comparative studies of gender, sexuality, and cultures of globalization, with special focus on the postwar United States and Near East. Her dissertation “Wild Westernization: Gender, Sexuality, and the United States in Turkey” interrogates how transnational and international politics are made into flesh through the semiotics of gender and sexuality. (See "About My Dissertation" in Papers).
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