Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics in 1993. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Hertfordshire in England in 1997. He got his PhD with a thesis entitled “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy” at Liverpool University in England in 2001. He has published two academic books in Turkish on post-colonial novel, entitled as Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity in Postcolonial English Novel] in 2011 and Çağdaş İngiliz Romanında Küreselleşme, Göç ve Kültür [Globalisation, Migration and Culture in Contemporary British Novel]. He currently works as a Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Marmara University, Turkey. mehmet.celikel@marmara.edu.tr
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-9858

Önder Çakırtaş is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingöl University, Turkiye. Completing his PhD on Victorian Bernard Shaw, he particularly specializes in Modern and Contemporary British Drama and Literature with a keen interest in Political Theatre, Minority Theatre, Ethnic Theatre, Race-Oriented Theatre and Disability Theatre. In 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. Recently authoring the monograph Staging Muslims in Britain: Playwriting, Performance and Representation (contracted with Routledge), Çakırtaş has prolifically written some recent works such as 'Racializ-ed/ing identities on Stage: Muslims, Angst and Response in Snokered and Does My Bomb Look Big in This?' (Performing Islam, Volume 10, Numbers 1-2, December 2021, pp. 5-21). His latest book Ten ve Kimlik: Çağdaş Siyahi İngiiliz Tiyatrosu [Skin Colur and Identity: Contemporary Black British Theatre] was published in late 2020. His latest edited book, Language, Power and Ideology in Political Writing, was published by IGI Global in Pennsylvania in late 2019. His other recent publications include a play-specific exercise that demonstrates how performance illuminates close reading of Wole Soyinka’s Death and a King’s Horseman (with Miriam Chirico) (edited by Miriam Chirico, Kelly Younger, published by Bloomsbury in 2020), an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in relation to patriography and pathography (published by Peter Lang in Oxford), and an edited book on analysis of the link between literature and psychology published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He has published in numerous journals including CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Forum for World Literature Studies, Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters. Çakırtaş is founding editor of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies. He is also among the editorial members of Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance. Çakırtaş is the founding president of Turkish Society for Theatre Research (Uluslararası Tiyatro Araştırmaları Derneği in Turkish) which was established in 2021 and held the first international theatre studies conference in 2023 in Ankara. Çakırtaş teaches Renaissance Literature and Shakespeare, English Theatre (Victorian and Modern) and Contemporary British Theatre along with an MA course of 20th Century English Literature.

Önder Çakırtaş is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingöl University, Turkiye. Completing his PhD on Victorian Bernard Shaw, he particularly specializes in Modern and Contemporary British Drama and Literature with a keen interest in Political Theatre, Minority Theatre, Ethnic Theatre, Race-Oriented Theatre and Disability Theatre. In 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. Recently authoring the monograph Staging Muslims in Britain: Playwriting, Performance and Representation (contracted with Routledge), Çakırtaş has prolifically written some recent works such as 'Racializ-ed/ing identities on Stage: Muslims, Angst and Response in Snokered and Does My Bomb Look Big in This?' (Performing Islam, Volume 10, Numbers 1-2, December 2021, pp. 5-21). His latest book Ten ve Kimlik: Çağdaş Siyahi İngiiliz Tiyatrosu [Skin Colur and Identity: Contemporary Black British Theatre] was published in late 2020. His latest edited book, Language, Power and Ideology in Political Writing, was published by IGI Global in Pennsylvania in late 2019. His other recent publications include a play-specific exercise that demonstrates how performance illuminates close reading of Wole Soyinka’s Death and a King’s Horseman (with Miriam Chirico) (edited by Miriam Chirico, Kelly Younger, published by Bloomsbury in 2020), an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in relation to patriography and pathography (published by Peter Lang in Oxford), and an edited book on analysis of the link between literature and psychology published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He has published in numerous journals including CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Forum for World Literature Studies, Hacettepe University Journal of Faculty of Letters. Çakırtaş is founding editor of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies. He is also among the editorial members of Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance. Çakırtaş is the founding president of Turkish Society for Theatre Research (Uluslararası Tiyatro Araştırmaları Derneği in Turkish) which was established in 2021 and held the first international theatre studies conference in 2023 in Ankara. Çakırtaş teaches Renaissance Literature and Shakespeare, English Theatre (Victorian and Modern) and Contemporary British Theatre along with an MA course of 20th Century English Literature.