Book Review: Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

Abstract

Z. Gizem Yılmaz Karahan is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Social Sciences University of Ankara, specializing in ecophobia, environmental humanities, new materialisms, ancient philosophy (old materialisms), elemental ecocriticism, early modern English drama and monster studies. She obtained her PhD degree in 2018 at Hacettepe University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her recent publications include a co-authored book chapter with Simon C. Estok entitled “The Ecophobia/Biophilia Spectrum in Turkish Theatre: Anatolian Village Plays and (Karagöz-Hacivat) Shadow Plays” in Turkish Ecocriticism: From Neolithic to Contemporary Times (edited by Serpil Oppermann and Sinan Akıllı, Lexington Books, 2020).