Lecturer · Researcher · Editor

Dr Zeliha
Kuruducu

Power, Resistance & the Stage

Researching contemporary British drama, masculinities, and adaptation through questions of power, ethical–aesthetic resistance, and theatrical form.

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01 / Academic profile

About

Zeliha Kuruducu is a Lecturer (PhD) at the School of Foreign Languages of a state university in Türkiye and a researcher in English Language and Literature. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature, and her research spans masculinity studies, contemporary British drama, and adaptation studies.

Her research explores how power shapes gender, subjectivity, and cultural representation—and how literary, dramatic, and cinematic forms create possibilities for ethical–aesthetic resistance. Drawing on post-Foucauldian approaches to power, biopolitics, and resistance, she examines the relationships between authority, violence, agency, and dramatic form.

Her work in adaptation studies focuses on literary and dramatic texts reimagined for stage and screen, bringing classical reception into dialogue with contemporary adaptations. She is particularly interested in ontological transformation: how adaptations reshape the conditions of existence, agency, and belonging within the worlds they create.

Alongside her teaching and research, Zeliha Kuruducu serves as Regional Managing Editor – Turkey at The Theatre Times.

Curriculum Vitae

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02 / Areas of inquiry

Research

Across three interconnected fields, power provides the central question; ethical–aesthetic resistance and ontological transformation shape the analytical approach.

Research area I

Contemporary British Drama

Power, biopolitics, violence, silence, and resistance in the work of playwrights including Edward Bond, Howard Barker, and Sarah Kane.

Research area II

Masculinities & Performance

Masculine authority, vulnerability, normative power, and the dramatic possibilities of ethical responsibility.

Research area III

Adaptation & Classical Reception

Shakespeare and Greek tragedy in contemporary reinterpretations, with attention to ontological transformation and changing configurations of power.

03 / Scholarly work

Latest

Monographs

Book Chapters

“Body, War, and Resistance: Ethical (im)Potentiality and Dramatic Form in Edward Bond and Howard Barker.”
Corporeal Politics: Gender and the Performance of Identity. Verlag H. J. Maurer, 2026. ISBN 978-3-949550-31-7.
Publisher Page ↗⁠https://www.maurer.press/bucher/corporeal-politics-gender-and-the-performance-of-identity/
“Gods, Fate, and Hubris Rewritten: Classical Myths and Intertextual Echoes in Game of Thrones.”
Rumeli Filoloji Yazıları 5. 2026, pp. 212–219.
View Publication ↗⁠https://www.rumeliya.com/rumeli-filoloji-yazilari-5-rumeli-philological-writings-5-u65
“The Monstrous Masculine: Gothic Horror and the Crisis of Male Power in Sarah Kane’s Blasted.”
Monster Image: Gothic Creatures in British Literature. 2025, pp. 201–216.
View Publication ↗⁠https://www.ozguryayinlari.com/site/tr/catalog/book/1058/chapter/4180

Journal Articles

04 / Independent writing

Research Journal

Kasım 8, 2026 · Research Journal

Essays&Criticism

Substack · The Theatre Times · Talking Films Online · Other Platforms

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International Research Networks & Working Groups

COST Action CA24137 – MultiLiLiTrans · WG1 · WG4 · WG5
ASTR · Anti-Authoritarian Theatre Working Group
BAFTSS · Adaptation · Film & Philosophy · Practice Research SIGs
IFTR · Translation, Adaptation & Dramaturgy · Performance & Migration WGs

Peer Review & Scholarly Service

Critical Stages / Scènes critiques · Adaptation (Oxford University Press) · Masculinities & Social Change · Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance · American Nineteenth Century History (Taylor& Francis) · Journal of Victorian Popular Fictions · English Studies · Journal of Essence & Critique: Literature and Drama Studies · Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature

Scholarly Communities & Seminar Networks

MADS Reading Group · Talking Films Online · Dialogues & Theatre (University of Hyderabad) · Mobilities and Immobilities Research and Praxis Network (MIRPN) · Lessing Academy

Editorial Role

The Theatre Times
Regional Managing Editor – Turkey

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