Education

Aycan Akçamete is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, Comparative Literature program. Her doctoral project explores the role of theater critics as public intellectuals in shaping a theater production, with case-studies from Arcola Theater in London and Talimhane Tiyatrosu in Istanbul. At the moment, she is writing about the stage adaptation of Can Dündar’s #WeAreArrested which will be published as a part of an edited collection on theatre and resilience in Turkey. Her Turkish translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s “Postdramatisches Theater” is forthcoming from Imge Publishing House in 2023.