Sen. Lecturer Nursen Gömceli Ph.D.

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Research areas / ÖSTAT - Subject areas

British and Irish Studies
British suffrage drama and theatre
contemporary British feminist drama and theatre
digital feminism
English studies
(feminist) theatre in the digital age
feminist theory and gender studies
intersectional feminism
Linguistics and Literature
literary linguistics
modern and contemporary British drama
modern and contemporary Irish drama
postcolonial theory
postdramatic theatre
transnational feminism

Curriculum Vitae

Education

EDUCATION:

Post-doctoral degree (title of Associate Professor), in the field of English language and literature, awarded by the Inter-University Board of Turkey, Ankara

Doctoral degree (title of Doctor of Philosophy), in the field of English language and literature, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Ankara

Master’s degree (title of Master of Arts), in the field of English language and literature, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Ankara

Bachelor’s degree (title of Bachelor of Arts), in the field of English language and literature, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, Hacettepe University, Ankara

RESEARCH AREAS:

British and Irish studies: modern and contemporary British drama, British suffrage drama and theatre, contemporary British feminist drama and theatre; modern and contemporary Irish drama; postdramatic theatre, (feminist) theatre in the digital age; feminist theory and gender studies, transnational feminism, intersectional feminism, digital feminism; postcolonial theory; literary linguistics.

RESEARCH AWARDS and HONOURS:

2016 “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Award (TÜBİTAK)” for:

Gömceli, Nursen, and Allan James. 2015. “Hiberno-English and Beyond in J.M.Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World: A Literary Linguistic Analysis of its Dramatic Significance.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 40 (1-2): 105-125.

2015 “Science and Incentive Award” of Akdeniz University, Faculty of Letters for:

2011 “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Award (TÜBİTAK)” for:

Gömceli, Nursen. 2009. “Timberlake Wertenbaker’s ‘Radical Feminist Reinterpretation of a Greek Myth: The Love of the Nightingale.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 34 (1): 79-102.

2006 PhD dissertation nominated by the Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, for:

“Excellence Award of the Institute of Social Sciences”

Selected Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Monograph:

Gömceli, Nursen. 2010. Timberlake Wertenbaker and Contemporary British Feminist Drama. Palo Alto, California: Academica Press.

Book chapters:

Gömceli, Nursen, and Allan James. 2023. "Command of Language and Interpersonal Positioning: A Literary Linguistic Analysis of Dialogue in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter with Insights for English Language Education." In Activating and Engaging Learners: Perspectives for English Language Education, edited by Carmen Armerstorfer and Max von Blanckenburg, 281-99. Tübingen: Narr.

Gömceli, Nursen. 2017. “Language and Physicality in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs (1996): A Postdramatic Analysis.” In The Polyphony of English Studies, edited by Alexander Onysko, Eva-Maria Graf, Werner Delanoy, Guenther Sigott, and Nikola Dobrić, 261-76. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag.

Gömceli, Nursen. 2015. “We Laugh A Lot When Mum’s Away: The Production of The Walworth Farce in Turkey.” In The Theatre of Enda Walsh, edited by Mary P. Caulfield and Ian R. Walsh, 201-14. Dublin: Carysfort Press.

Gömceli, Nursen. 2014. “Harold Pinter’s ‘Room’ on Turkish Stages: A ‘Dilemma’ between Art and Politics?” In Harold Pinter on International Stages, edited by Tomaž Onič, 153-66. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Gömceli, Nursen. 2023. “Dördüncü Dalga Feminizm ve Ingiliz (Feminist) Tiyatrosuna Etkileri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme: #MeToo Örneği” [“An Evaluation of Fourth Wave Feminism and its Effects on British (Feminist) Theatre: The Example of #MeToo”]. Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre 1 (2): 135-161.

Open access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/theatreacademy/issue/79961/1354805

Gömceli, Nursen. 2019. “Süfraj Hareketinin İngiliz Tiyatrolarındaki Yansımalarına Bir Örnek: Elizabeth Robins ve Votes for Women! (1907) [“An Example for the Echoes of the Suffrage Movement in British Theatre: Elizabeth Robins and Votes for Women! (1907)”]. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi [Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography] 59 (1): 100-24.

Open access: http://dx.doi.org/10.33171/dtcfjournal.2019.59.1.6

James, Allan, and Nursen Gömceli. 2018. “The Textual Analysis of Dramatic Discourse Revisited: Linguistic Layers and the (Social) Semiotics of Play-Constitutive and Play-Realisational Elements.” English Text Construction 11 (2): 199-224.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00009.jam.

Gömceli, Nursen. 2017. “A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Kay Adshead’s The Bogus Woman (2001).” Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi [Mustafa Kemal University Journal of the Social Sciences Institute] 14 (37): 105-26.

Open access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/697891