ÖZLEM KARADAĞ

Özlem Karadağ is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at İstanbul University. She received her BA (2005), MA (Pain and Violence in Three Contemporary English Plays, 2008), and PhD (Trauma on the English Stage: Kane, Ravenhill, Ridley, 2013) degrees from İstanbul University’s English Language and Literature Department. She took a postdoctoral position at Queen Mary University of London, Department of Drama in 2015 (“World Concerns on Stage,” funded by TÜBİTAK), where she also conducted part of her PhD research in 2012 (“Dystopias on the English Stage,” funded by BAP). Karadağ’s research covers British theatre, poetry, adaptation, and contemporary literary theories with a specific focus on contemporary theatre, ecofeminism, posthumanism, and trauma narratives. Karadağ has long navigated the waters of both scholarship and theater, combining her degrees in English language and Literature, her research in contemporary drama, and duties as a professor at Istanbul University with stints in various theater companies. In 2012, she joined BuluTiyatro as a resident dramaturg and assistant director, as well as being engaged in project development. Karadağ has also translated many contemporary English plays, which have gone on to be produced by theater companies in Istanbul. Her most recent publications include a co-edited volume, Different Voices: Gender and Posthumanism (V&R Unipress), and journal articles, “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul: Appropriation and Performance as Trauma Narrative/Cure in Çağan Irmak’s Creature (2023)” and “Ecofeminization of a Medieval Morality Play: Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015).”