Dr Lizzie Stewart

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Lizzie Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages, Culture and Society at King's College London, having written her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Turkish-German Scripts of Postmigration: Mimesis and Mimeticism in the Plays of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu/Günter Senkel’ (2014) at the University of Edinburgh. This thesis looks at theatre and migration in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1986 and the present day, focusing on productions of plays by two playwrights already renowned for their prose-work. It draws on extensive archival and field work to explore the role which these playwrights and productions of their works have played in re-scripting the German stage as Germany adjusts to its status as a country of immigration. Lizzie’s first article ‘Countermemory and the (Turkish-)German Theatrical Archive’ was published in Transit 8.2 (2013). A further article appeared in the 2014 volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien.