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Önder Çakırtaş
Önder Çakırtaş is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingöl University in Türkiye. His research interests centre around political and psychological literature. He particularly specializes in modern and contemporary British drama and literature with a keen interest in political theatre, minority theatre, ethnic theatre and race-oriented theatre. In the 2018–19 academic year, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Roehampton in London. Currently writing his book Staging Muslims in Britain: Playwriting, Performance and Representation (Routledge, 2023), Çakırtaş has prolifically written some recent works such as ‘Racializ-ed/ing identities on stage: Muslims, angst and response in Snookered and Does My Bomb Look Big in This?’ (Performing Islam, 10:1&2, December 2021, pp. 5–21) and ‘Islamized class and “the Infidel Within” the British drama: Contemporary British Muslim theatre around race, colour and faith’ in Class Acts: Material Relations and Performance Aesthetics (Methuen Bloomsbury, 2023) edited by Elizabeth Tomlin. His latest book Ten ve Kimlik: Çağdaş Siyahi İngiiliz Tiyatrosu (‘Skin colour and identity: Contemporary Black British theatre’) was published in late 2020.
Contact: Bingöl University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Room No: D2-8, Bingol, 12200, Türkiye.
