Murat Öğütcü

is Assistant Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Munzur University, where he has been the head of the department from 2016 onwards. He received his PhD degree on Shakespeare’s history plays from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University, Turkey, in 2016. From August 2012 to January 2013, he was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written book chapters and articles on his research interests that include early modern studies, Shakespeare, drama studies, cultural studies, adaptation studies, ecocriticism and early modern history. He is interested in Anglo-Turkish social and political relationships, particularly from 1500 to 1660. Currently he is working on the representation of the Turk in neo-Latin academic drama and in lost commercial plays in early modern England. He tweets @MuratOgutcu1985