Assistant Professor

Email: kyra.sutton@bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (312) 290 1723
Office: G-115A

Kyra Sutton received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024. She specializes in contemporary Anglo-American literature, critical theory, and critical religion and secularism studies.

Her current book project, The Secular Undone: Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and the Question of Time, brings recent theoretical conversations in critical religion studies to bear on literary criticism, reading contemporary Anglo-American literature with an interest in how its forms upend and complicate standard definitions of “the secular modern.” This project assembles a disparate archive of texts that defy the standard categories of the “religious” and “secular.” A second project rethinks the question of form and affect in the contemporary American novel against the background of neoliberal emotional exchange. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in CR: The New Centennial Review, qui parle, and edited volumes.

She additionally serves as Associate Editor of the journal Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.