Biography
Önder Çakırtaş is a faculty member at Bitlis Eren University and Chair of the Turkish Society for Theatre Research. He works on modern and contemporary British drama, with a particular interest in political theatre, minority and ethnic theatre, and theatre on race and disability.
He completed his PhD on Bernard Shaw at Süleyman Demirel University in 2015. In 2018–2019 he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Roehampton, London. After his post in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingöl University, he moved to Bitlis Eren University as Professor.
He is the author of Ten ve Kimlik (2020), on contemporary Black British theatre, and Staging Muslims in Britain: Playwriting, Performance, and Representation (Routledge), on how Muslim identity is represented in British playwriting and performance. He is a founding editor of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies.