Mert Dilek

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in English (Modern and Contemporary Literature), University of Cambridge, Trinity College, 2024 (expected)
  Dissertation: Beyond Playthings: Material Dramaturgies on the Modern Stage
  Committee: Dr Edward Allen (supervisor), Dr Zoë Svendsen (advisor)

• M.Phil. in English (Modern and Contemporary Literature), with distinction, University of Cambridge, Trinity College, 2019

• B.A. in English and Political Science, magna cum laude, with distinction in both majors, Yale University, 2018

HONOURS, AWARDS, & GRANTS

• Camilla Mash Ph.D. Studentship in English Literature, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2020-24

• Kellogg College Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2020-23 (declined)

• University Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University, 2020-25 (declined)

• Baer Pettit M.Phil. Studentship in the Humanities, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2018-19

• Rouse Ball Grant for Archival Research, Trinity College, Cambridge, 2019

• Graduate Grant for Visit to Archives, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 2019

• Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 2018

• Sholom and Marcia Herson Scholarship Prize, Yale University, 2018

• Lloyd Mifflin Prize for an Outstanding Senior Essay in English, Yale University, 2018

• John Hubbard Curtis Prize, Yale University, 2017

• Creative and Performing Arts Award, Yale University, 2016

• Banu Büyükünal Award for Excellence in English Literature, Robert College, 2014

• Koç Family Award, Robert College, 2014

• Innovation and Creativity Award, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2013

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• “Growing Up with Chaplin: Adrienne Kennedy’s A Lancashire Lad,” Critical Quarterly, 66.1 (2024) (forthcoming)

• “Finding T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Devils’: Marionettes and Sweeney Agonistes,” Modern Drama, 66.3 (2023), 319–348

• “Ivo van Hove and Almodóvar: Remixing The Human Voice,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 45.1 (2023), 1–8

• “Lessons in Modernity,” The Cambridge Quarterly, 52.2 (2023), 176–182

• “Happy Days,” Theatre Journal, 73.4 (2021), 559-561

• “Interview with Lisa Dwan on Happy Days, Riverside Studios, London,” The Beckett Circle, Autumn 2021

• “First Love,” Journal of Beckett Studies, 30.2 (2021), 268–273

• “A Little Life,” Theatre Journal, 72.1 (2020), 102-104

TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

• “‘Returning Forever, Coming Back Ever’: Adrienne Kennedy’s Playthings,” 6th International Conference on American Drama and Theater, Madrid, June 2022

• “The Beckettian Body: Atrophied, Hypertrophied, Compensated,” Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Conference, ‘Bodies and Performance’ Working Group, September 2021

• “The Conspiring Bodies of David Storey’s The Contractor,” TaPRA-SCUDD Postgraduate Symposium, June 2021

• “Rewriting the Realist Contract: David Storey’s Inside Job,” Flash Forum, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, June 2021

• “T. S. Eliot’s Marionettes and the Making of a Dramatist,” Trinity Forum, Trinity College, Cambridge, June 2019

FURTHER RESEARCH

• Research Assistant, Yale University (Professor Margaret Homans), April – July 2020

• Research Fellow, Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, May – August 2017

• Research and Development Intern, Nutopia, May – July 2016

• Research Assistant, Bogazici University (Professor Özlem Görey), May – Aug 2015