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Overview

Biography

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Seda is Programme Director of MA Theatre and Performance, and teaches on BA Theatre Studies.ÌýSeda joined the department in 2014, having previously worked at University of Sussex, University of Brighton, University of Portsmouth and Middle East Technical University (Turkey). Her research primarily focuses on contemporary theatre and performance, dramaturgy, technology and theatre, ecodramaturgy, adaptation, media culture and theatre, and new writing for performance.

Highlights

Professional memberships

• Dramaturgs' Network

  The Fence

  International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)

  Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)

ORCID

Research

Research interests

• contemporary drama and theatre
• theatre and mediatized culture
• textuality in digital theatre
• new dramaturgies
• aesthetics and politics of representation
• new writing in theatre and performance
• Ecodramaturgy and ecocritical practices in theatre

Research overview

Seda’s research primarily focuses on theoretical and aesthetic implications of new technologies and mediatized culture in theatre; new writing and modes of textuality in contemporary performance; new dramaturgies (mediatized, postdramatic, participatory, etc.). She is author of (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021) which combines theatre and media theory, and offers conceptual reflections on the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how they, in form and content, negotiate the new reality of contemporary culture.ÌýHer work on contemporary theatre and mediatized culture has also led to articles on the ontology of mediaturgical texts, dataveillance and resistant aesthetics in theatre, and mediatized plays, published in journals such as Modern Drama and Performance Research.

Seda has also been interested in the politics and aesthetics of theatre in Turkey, and the journey from British theatre to the theatre scene in Turkey. She has published on topics such as performance as resistance during the Gezi Protests and the adaptation of Simon Stephens’s Pornography to the Turkish stage. She curated and wrote the introduction for the dossier ‘Reflections on Turkish Theatre’ published in Theatre Research International in which artists and academics respond to the contemporary scene by viewing it from different disciplinary and cultural perspectives.ÌýIn addition to her academic work, Seda directed her translation of Tim Crouch’s The Author in Istanbul at the Talimhane Theatre, (2015 – 2016) which then toured to the Theater an der Ruhr, Germany (2016).

Research Centres and Institutes

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Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú:

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Seda welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students (including practice-led projects) interested in researching within her field or related areas, in particular topics relating to:

• contemporary theatre and performance;
• mediatized dramaturgy;
• theory and practice of performance in digital culture;
• new writing and new textualities;
• theory and practice of dramaturgy;
• ecocritical theatre and ecodramaturgy;
• adaptation;
  
• performance and cultural politics.

Current doctoral researchers

• BEDIYE TOPAL

  Nature of supervision:

  JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR, Sep 2025

• DARIA PONOMAREVA

  Nature of supervision:

  JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR, Sep 2024

  Title of thesis:

  Embodiment of the Futuristic Otherness: Disability and Performative Able-bodiedness of Cyborgs in Video Games

• JAN KOFI-TSEKPO

  Nature of supervision:

  JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR, Apr 2025

Teaching

Seda runs the MA Theatre and Performance. She teaches across MA Theatre and Performance and BA Theatre Studies.

Publications