N. Eda Erçin
Instructor of Performance Studies & HopKins Black Box Theater Manager
Ph.D.: Performance Practice, Department of Drama, University of Exeter, UK (2020).
M.A.: Performance Studies, Department of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, US (2011).
B.S.: Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2006).
Minor: Political Science, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2006).
Actor Training (One-year intensive course): Ankara Art Theatre (Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu), Turkey (2005).
Phone: 225-578-4240
E-mail: nercin1@lsu.edu
Office: 223 Coates Hall
Gender Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Biography
N. Eda Erçin is an intercultural practitioner/researcher and educator of contemporary performance practices. She is an associate of Urban Research Theater; a member of the Embodied Research Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR); assistant editor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal Blog; is joining the team of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies as a contributing editor in Fall 2021. She has presented her research and performance work internationally at Qualitative Inquiry (QI), Performance Studies international (PSi), National Communication Association (NCA), The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), Feminist & Women's Studies Association (FWSA), Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Royal Anthropological Institute, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, New York, The Grotowski Institute, Poland, and The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU).
Selected Awards & Fellowships
International Doctorate Studentship, College of Humanities, University of Exeter (2013-2016).
Turkish Cultural Foundation (TCF) Cultural Exchange Artist's Fellowship (2012).
Fulbright Master’s Grant (2008-2010).
Research Affiliation
Urban Research Theater and University of Huddersfield, The Judaica Project: An Embodied Laboratory of Songwork, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK, (2017-2019).
Research Interests
Practice-based / Performance as research, contemporary performance practices, theatre laboratory, embodiment and body-centered performance, physical devised performance, phenomenology, self-referential (autobiographical) performance, identity formation and ideology, performance of gender, performing sound and voice.
Teaching (in person & online)
CMST 2040: Performance of Literature
CMST 2060: Public Speaking
CMST 3040: Performance Composition
CMST 3900: Performing Sound and Voice (Selected Topics in Communication)
CMST 4142: Performing the Self (Selected Topics in Performance Studies)
CMST 4147: Body Performance Culture
Selected Practice-based Research Outputs
2021: Researcher/Performer/Video Maker: "Działoszyce: Song, Border, Body" (video essay), premiered online as a part of the video performance collection, ECOPOET[H]ICS in Progress on 17 March 2021 at the First International Ecoperformance Festival organized by Taanteatro, São Paulo, Brazil. https://urbanresearchtheater.com/2021/03/17/dzialoszyce/ (OPEN Access).
2020-2021: Director/Collaborator/Performer: “BUG: Kafka’s Metamorphosis in the time of Covid-19” (video performance), premiered at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Performance Studies Division (November 2020), and performed at HopKins Black Box Theater, Louisiana State University (March 2021). (You can see a teaser of the performance: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/519221806).
2020: Collaborator/Performer: “dist[Sense]” a virtual performance in zoom space for one audience with one performer, directed by Naomi Bennett, HopKins Black Box Theater, Louisiana State University (You can see a teaser of the performance: https://vimeo.com/user121617363).
2020: Collaborator/Performer: “The Object Dance Project”, directed by Josiah Pearsall, HopKins Black Box Theater, Louisiana State University.
2017: Co-researcher/Performer/Director: “Judaica Project: Embodied Laboratory for Songwork.” AHRC-funded practice as research into new intersections of song as cultural and embodied knowledge. (You can see the songwork archive with short videos of the laboratory work with samples of physical and vocal practice at http://urbanresearchtheater.com/songwork/)
2016: Researcher/Performer/Director: Ph.D. Practice Project (3): “Performing Virginity: Between Mother, Little Princess & Belly Dancer,” a solo voice and movement performance, University of Exeter, Drama.
2015: Researcher/Performer/Director: Ph.D. Practice Project (2): “Dis/assembling her Body,” an auto-topographic multimedia installation, University of Exeter, Drama.
2014: Researcher/Facilitator/Director: Ph.D. Practice Project (1): “What Language Does My Body Speak?” design and facilitation of physical autobiographical performance workshops on bodily history and gender. Exeter, UK and Ankara, Turkey.
Selected Publications
Erçin, N. Eda. “Letting things rot.” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, pp. 182-184. DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2020.1752058
Erçin, Nazlihan Eda. “Ütülü Vücut Kırışık Dil: Performans Sanatlarının Yöntemleriyle Bedensel Bellek Çalışması”. (“Ironed Body Wrinkled Language: Researching Embodied Memory with Performance Methods”, title translated from Turkish). Feminist Tahayyül, vol. 1, no. 2, 2020, pp. 263-281 (Araştırma Notu) http://www.feministtahayyul.com/?page_id=1294 (OPEN Access).
Spatz, Ben., Erçin, Nazlihan Eda., Mendel, Agnieszka. “Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork”. Ground Works Compendium of Arts Integrative Exemplars. Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (2020) https://groundworks.io/projects/39 (OPEN Access).
Erçin, Nazlihan Eda. "From-ness: The identity of the practitioner in the laboratory." Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 2018, pp. 195-202, DOI: 10.1386/jivs.3.2.195_1 (OPEN Access).
Erçin, Nazlihan Eda. "Spell or Spill It Out: Dismembering a Name." Performance Research: On Names, vol. 22, no. 5, 2017, pp.44-51, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2017.1383768