Ozlem Karadag 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 TUBITAK),
where she also conducted part of her PhD research in 2012 (“Dystopias on the English
Stage,” funded by BAP). Karadag’s research covers British theatre, poetry, adaptation, and
contemporary literary theories with a specific focus on contemporary theatre, ecofeminism,
posthumanism, and trauma narratives. Karadag 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. Karadag 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 Cagan Irmak’s Creature (2023)” and “Ecofeminization of a Medieval Morality
Play: Carol Ann Duffy’s Everyman (2015).”