Jason Rodriguez Vivrette is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, specializing in Ottoman and Modern Turkish, Arabic, and Italian literatures. Since 2013, Jason has served as Lecturer in Turkish in MELC, where he teaches all levels of Modern Turkish language, along with advanced courses in Ottoman, Turkish, and Azeri literature and film. His dissertation project explores questions of hydropoetics and hydropower in both the management and local experience of the so-called "peripheries" of the Ottoman Empire, with a comparative focus on the frontier...
