Burcu Alkan

Burcu Alkan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Promethean Encounters: Representation of the Intellectual in the Modern Turkish Novel of the 1970s (2018) and the co-editor of Dictionary of Literary Biography 373: Turkish Novelists Since 1960 (2013) and its Second Series, vol. 379 (2016). She specializes in comparative literature with a focus on Turkish literature. Her research interests are modernity, knowledge, and the intellectual and...See more

Burcu Alkan is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Promethean Encounters: Representation of the Intellectual in the Modern Turkish Novel of the 1970s (2018) and the co-editor of Dictionary of Literary Biography 373: Turkish Novelists Since 1960 (2013) and its Second Series, vol. 379 (2016). She specializes in comparative literature with a focus on Turkish literature. Her research interests are modernity, knowledge, and the intellectual and medical humanities, mental health, and sciences of the mind. See less