Burcu AlkanBurcu 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 Dictioary 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. Read More Read Less