Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Volume 19 Number 2/3 August/December 2018
(Final Issue)
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Necla Çıkıgil (Assoc. Prof. Dr.) has a B.A. degree in English literature and Language. Due to her interest in ballet (she is a graduate of Fenmen Ballet School in Ankara) and theatre she started research work on Shakespeare’s ballets while working for an M.A. degree in Shakespeare Studies, at the Shakespeare Institute in Birmingham University.While she was working for an M.A. degree she also studied Historical Dances.This allowed her to teach Medieval and Renaissance Dances to the ballet students of the State Conservatory in Ankara. After receiving her M.A. degree, she conducted further research to get a Ph.D. (with a dissertation on A Semiotic Analysis of Shakespeare’s Ballets) in Theatre in Ankara University.Her major publications are in transformation of literary works into dance (the changing language and signs), theatrical performances of Shakespeare’s works (Shakespeare on stage), world theatre, English language, Academic Oral Presentation Skills (theatricality and presentation skills). She also writes ballet and play reviews for national and international journals. Currently, she is an instructor of History of Theatre and English in Middle East Technical University, Ankara where she has been teaching since 1981. One of her most recent publications is “Verbal Painting by Means of Dance and Portraits” in Shakespeare and the Visual Arts”, edited by Michele Marrapodi, London and New York: Routledge,2017
neclac@metu.edu.tr