Emine Fişek is Research Associate in the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. A native of Istanbul, Fişek received her BA in English Literature and Theatre from Swarthmore College, and her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley.
Fişek’s core research interest is in the relationship between theatre and politics, with special attention to questions of migration, community and memory. Her first book, Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration and Theater in Twenty-First-Century Paris (Northwestern University Press, 2017) addressed the role played by theatrical performance in how immigration, citizenship, and national identity were addressed in Paris at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Her second book, Theatre & Community (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) was published as part of the Theatre & Book Series and explored the history of community as an artistic or political ideal in the theatre. Her current research considers the impact that cultural memory, urban transformation and international migration have had on theatre in twenty-first-century Turkey.

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