AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
September-November 2022 Freie University, “EXC 2020: Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” International Research Fellowship
2021-2022 Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe Research Fellowship
August 2021 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Stay Grant, University of Cologne
July 2019 Justus Liebig University, Postdoc grant to attend the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, 14-17 November 2019
January 2019 The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture grant to attend the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, 1-25 July 2019
2017/2018 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Kongressreisen Grant to attend the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles, 29 March-1 April 2018
2016 The Newton (UK) - Katip Çelebi (TR) Fund for Workshop
Transcultural Dialogues in Medical Humanities, Istanbul
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2010-2012 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), 1001 Young Scholars Research Project Grant
Women’s Literature in Turkey and Analytical Examination of the Profile of Women Writers (KAYAPRO) (EU/COST Action ISO901, Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture)
2011 Celal Bayar University, Faculty Grant for Conference Travel 2005-2007 University of Manchester, Graduate Teaching Assistantship Bursary 2006 University of Manchester, S.A.G.E Award for Conference Travel 2005 University of Manchester, Ruddick Bursary for Conference Travel
2003-2004 The Soroptimist International Goodwill and Understanding Scholarship, California State University, Chico
1998-2002 Istanbul University Rectorship, Achievement Bursary (ÖYS Countrywide Top500, 4-year Tuition and Maintenance)
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph:
Burcu Alkan, Promethean Encounters: Representation of the Intellectual in the Modern Turkish Novel of the 1970s. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
Edited Collections:
Burcu Alkan, Şima İmşir, Ezgi Sarıtaş (eds.), “Narratives of Health and Illness: Care and Power Within, Against and Beyond Medicine,” TRAFO Blog Series, Forum Transregionale Studien, 26 September 2023 – 31 May 2024.
Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, eds. Turkish Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, eds. Turkish Novelists since 1960, Second Series (DLB 379). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017.
Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay-Erkol, eds. Turkish Novelists since 1960 (DLB 373). Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013.
Sibel Güzel and Burcu Alkan, eds. Proceedings: 4th International IDEA, Studies in English Conference. Manisa: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi, 2010.
Articles in Indexed/Refereed Journals:
Burcu Alkan and Nazan Maksudyan, “Children at the Margins of Labour Migration in Füruzan’s Works After Germany,” İstanbul Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi (TUDED) 63.2 (2023): 115-139 (Web of Science: ESCI & TR Dizin).
Burcu Alkan, “The Underground Topography of the Political Unconscious in Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison,” Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 17.2 (2023): 167-182 (TR Dizin).
Burcu Alkan, “‘Freudism’ and Modernity: Transcultural Impact of Psychoanalysis in the Modern Turkish Novel,” Medical Humanities, 19 May 2023 (AHCI Indexed, Q1).
Burcu Alkan, “Remembering and Forgetting in Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana and Murat Gülsoy’s Nisyan,” Ankara Üniversitesi DTCF Dergisi, 62.2 (2022): 1353-1373 (TR Dizin).
Nazan Maksudyan and Burcu Alkan, “Embracing Embodiedness, Desire, and Failure: Women’s Fluid Gender Performances in Sevgi Soysal’s Oeuvre from the 1960s,” Journal of European Studies, 52.2 (2022): 111-128 (AHCI Indexed, Q4).
Burcu Alkan, “Attilâ İlhan’s Anti-Cosmopolitanism,” İstanbul Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi (TUDED), 61.2 (December 2021): 493-509 (Web of Science: ESCI & TR Dizin).
Burcu Alkan, “Faustyen Anlatıların İzinde Ölümsüzlük Arayışı: Bir Varoluşsal Epistemoloji Modeli Olarak Edebiyat” [Searching for Immortality in the Tracks of Faustian Narratives: Literature as an Existential Epistemology Model], Pasajlar Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2019, vol. 2, pp. 71-100.
- Re-printed in Burhanettin Batıman, Faust’un Tahlil ve Tefsiri [Analysis and Interpretation of Faust], Istanbul: Ötüken, 2022, pp. 11-36.
Burcu Alkan, “Spatial Experiences of the Intellectual: Exile, Isolation, and Imprisonment in Bread and Wine and Karartma Geceleri,” Journal of European Studies, 2019, vol. 49, Issue 1, pp. 1-13 (AHCI Indexed, Q4).
Burcu Alkan, “The Psychiatrist as Novelist in Contemporary Turkish Literature: Pushing the Boundaries of the Real,” Border Crossing, January-June 2018, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 64-75.
Burcu Alkan, “Formation of Masculinity in Nedim Gürsel’s Yüzbaşının Oğlu,” NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 2017, vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 23- 37 (Web of Science: ESCI).
Burcu Alkan, “Uneven Temporalities of Modernity: The Portrayal of Modernisation in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Füruzan’s 47’liler,” Border Crossing, January June 2017, Vol.7, No.1, pp. 35-48.
Burcu Alkan, “Füruzan’ın Coğrafyasında Kadın” [Women in the Geography of Füruzan], Kadın/Woman 2000 (Centre for Women’s Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University), 2012, Vol. XIII, Issue 1, pp. 49-61 (TR Dizin).
Chapters in Books:
Burcu Alkan and Çimen Günay Erkol, “Turkish Literary Modernism as an Intellectual Countercanon,” Cambridge History of Middle Eastern Modernisms, Ed. Levi Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP (forthcoming, 2024)
Burcu Alkan, “Dünya Edebiyatı Kanonunun Dinamikleri ve Türk Edebiyatı” [The Dynamics of the World Literary Canon and Turkish Literature], ed. Seval Şahin, et al. Edebiyatın İzinde: Kanon [In the Tracks of Literature: Canon]. Istanbul: Bağlam (forthcoming, 2024)
Burcu Alkan, “‘Sigmund Freud Rüya Yorumu, Michel Gondry Rüyaların Bilimi’” [Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dreams, Michel Gondry The Science of Dreams], ed. Tevfika İkiz, Freud Diye Diye. Istanbul: Sanat Kritik Yay., 2024
Burcu Alkan, “Intelligentsia Narratives of the 1970s Turkish Novel,” ed. Didem Havlioğlu and Zeynep Uysal. A Handbook of Turkish Literature. (New York: Routledge, 2023): 343-353.
Burcu Alkan, “Engin Geçtan,” Turkish Novelists since 1960 Second Series (DLB 379) (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017): 108-118.
Burcu Alkan, “Rıfat Ilgaz,” Turkish Novelists since 1960 Second Series (DLB 379) (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017): 138-153.
Burcu Alkan, “Levent Mete,” Turkish Novelists since 1960 Second Series (DLB 379) (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2017): 235-245.
Burcu Alkan, “Faust Anlatılarında Ölümsüzlüğün Bedeli, Ölümün Mekanları” [Price of Immortality, Places of Death in Faustian Narratives], Ölüm, Sanat ve Mekan [Proceedings], ed. Gevher Gökçe Acar (Istanbul: Dakam, 2014): 38-45.
Burcu Alkan, “Writing Istanbul: A Diachronic Narrative,” Images of the City [Proceedings], eds. Veronika Bernard, H. Övgü Tüzün (Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2014): 157-165.
Burcu Alkan, “Nedim Gürsel,” Turkish Novelists since 1960 (DLB 373) (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013): 102-113.
Burcu Alkan, “Attilâ İlhan,” Turkish Novelists since 1960 (DLB 373) (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2013): 114-128.
Burcu Alkan, “Karartma Geceleri’nde Mekan: Aydının Toplumsal İletişim Sorunu,” Rıfat Ilgaz Sempozyumu [Proceedings] (Istanbul: Çınar, 2007): 471-475.
Translations:
Burcu Alkan, Blake (by Peter Ackroyd). Istanbul: Alfa, 2023.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks:
“Theorization and the Global South,” Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 16 May 2024 (forthcoming)
“Turkish Literature as World Literature,” Academy in Exile, Essen & Berlin, 26 January 2023. [Online]
“Is a truly global literary scholarship possible?” EXC 2020 Temporal Communities Jour Fixe #2 | Panel: “What is a Global Perspective?” Freie University, Berlin 24 June 2022. [Online]
“Dünya Edebiyatı Olarak Türk Edebiyatı” [Turkish Literature as World Literature], Kültürel Bellek 2022 [Cultural Memory 2022], 5 March 2022, Hacettepe University, Tarihi ve Kültürel Mirası Araştırma Merkezi (HÜTKAM). [Online]
“Dünya Edebiyatı Kanonunun Dinamikleri ve Türk Edebiyatı” [The Dynamics of the World Literary Canon and Turkish Literature], Bir Müessese Olarak Edebiyat: Kanon Sempozyumu [Literature as an Institution: The Canon Symposium], 27-28 November 2021, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. [Online]
“Dünya Edebiyatının Şairi Nâzım” [Poet of World Literature, Nâzım], Boğaziçi University Nazım Hikmet Research Center for Culture and the Arts, 3 June 2021. [Online]
“Turkish Literature as World Literature,” Doğuş University, 24 May 2021. [Online]
“Dünya Edebiyatı Olarak Türk Edebiyatı: Nâzım Hikmet ve Halide Edip’in Dünya Edebiyatına Etkileri” (Turkish Literature as World Literature: The Influence of Nazım Hikmet and Halide Edip on World Literature), Sanat Kritik, 10 May 2021. [Online]
Respondent to Maura Spiegel, “Narrative Medicine at Work: Giving and Receiving Accounts of Self,” Contact Zones in the Study of Culture, 24 November 2020, GCSC, Justus Liebig University, Giessen. [Online]
“The Complex Profundity of the Soul in Exile: Zabel Yesayan’s Sürgün Ruhum,” Exodus After World War I: Production of Lives and Knowledge in Exile, 26-27 September 2019, Freie Universität Berlin.
“Case Studies/Turkey; from activism to polarisation: outcomes, achievements and fault lines,” 28 June-1 July 2017, Online Vitriol: Advocacy, Violence, and the Transforming Power of Social Media, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany.
“Faust Anlatılarında Ölümsüzlüğün Bedeli, Ölümün Mekanları,” [Price of Immortality, Places of Death in Faustian Narratives] Ölüm, Sanat ve Mekan, 12-14 November 2013, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Writing Istanbul: A Diachronic Narrative” (as visiting Erasmus scholar), Culture and Place: Past, Present and Future, 21 June 2012, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
“Writers as Intellectuals, Writers’ Intellectuals” (as visiting Erasmus scholar), English Research Seminar, 13 June 2012, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Conferences, Workshops, Summer Schools:
“Transcultural Impact of Psychoanalysis: ‘Freudism’ as a Literary Contact Zone in the Crisis of Turkish Modernisation,” 21 November 2022, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, “Literary Currencies,” Freie University, Berlin, Germany
“Theorising World Literature from the Threshold: Turkish Literature as World Literature,” 10-11 March 2022, Theorizing Through the Global South, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany
“The Oedipal Clock? Timekeeping, Clocks, and Psychoanalysing Modernity in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute,” 3 & 10 December 2021, Therapy of Things Workshop, University of Düsseldorf, Germany. [Online]
“Transcultural Impact of Psychoanalysis: ‘Freudism’ as a Literary Contact Zone in the Crisis of Turkish Modernisation,” 15 November 2021, Köln Forum, University of Cologne, Germany (DAAD-funded research stay presentation) [Online]
Panel Chair / Respondent, “Searching for a Culturally Tailored Psychiatry,” New Perspectives in Transcultural Psychiatry, 3-5 November 2021, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
“Literature of the Turkish Black Sea,” Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region Workshop, 27-29 February 2020, University of Vienna, Austria.
“The Case of Psychoanalysis in ‘Tradition vs. Modernity’: Epistemologies of the Self in-Crisis in the Modern Turkish Novel,” 14-17 November 2019, Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, USA.
“Mind, Self, and Identity in Murat Gülsoy’s Gölgeler ve Hayaller Şehrinde,” 19-21 September 2018, Turkologentag, University of Bamberg.
“Shadows of the Past, Ashes of the Self: Dementia in Murat Gülsoy’s Nisyan,” 27-29 June 2018, Association for Medical Humanities Annual Conference, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
“VorTextual Memory: The Textual Anchors of Remembering and Forgetting,” 29 March-1 April 2018, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (on DAAD travel grant).
“Mental Pathology as a Realm to Explore the Troubled Self in the Turkish Novel,” 19-20 October 2017, Narrative and Wellbeing, University of Tampere, Finland.
“Roundtable; Literature in/and Institutions: Between Affirmation & Subversion,” 20- 21 June 2017, Literature and Institutions, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany.
“The Psychiatrist as Novelist in Contemporary Turkish Literature: Pushing the Boundaries of the Real,” 24-25 November 2016, Transcultural Dialogues in Medical Humanities Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey (The Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund).
“An Oedipal Drive from Coming-of-Age to Ageing in Nedim Gürsel’s Yüzbaşının Oğlu,” Identities, Cultures, Societies, 11-13 September 2014, 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities, İzmir, Turkey.
“Looking through the Hazy Mirror in Search for a Long Lost Cosmopolitanism,” Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories, 26-27 June 2014, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
“Writing Istanbul – A Diachronic Narrative, Part 2,” Images of the City, 31 October-1 November 2013 Austrian Cultural Forum, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Two Turn-of-the-Century Literary Feminists across the Waters: Halide Edip & Virginia Woolf,” Transnational Perspectives on 19th & 20th Century Women’s Writing, 27-29 September 2012, TÜBİTAK Project International Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Revising the Historical Revision of Women’s Literature in Twentieth Century Europe,” Gender Studies in the Age of Globalization, 2-3 June 2011, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania (on CBU & TÜBİTAK travel grant).
Public Talks:
“Turkish Literature as World Literature,” 1 February 2023, Forum Transregionale Studien, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe, Berlin, Germany.
“From Pseudo-Medicine to Freudo-Marxism: The Impact of Psychoanalysis on the Twentieth Century Turkish Novel,” 15 February 2022, Lunch Forum Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.
“Pseudo-Medicine and Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Mental Health and Illness in the Turkish Novel,” 2 February 2022, Forum Transregionale Studien, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe, Berlin, Germany.
“Dilsizliğin Dile Gelişi (öz-şiddet ve intihar)” [When voicelessness speaks up (self harm and suicide)], 28 February 2016, Hiçbir Metin Bağımsız Değildir: Şiddet, Gümüşlük Academy, Istanbul, Turkey.
Radio Programmes & Podcasts:
“World Literature: F. Scoot Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night,” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 22 September 2022, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Sigmund Freud ‘Rüya Yorumu’/ Michel Gondry ‘Rüyaların Bilimi’,” Freud Diye Diye - Sanat Kritik, January 2022, Istanbul, Turkey
“Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü & Psikanaliz [The Time Regulation Institute & Psychoanalysis],” Sanat Kritik, 15 July 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.
“World Literature: Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 15 July 2021, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
Interview on the translation of Murat Gülsoy’s Nisyan, in collaboration with Clive Goodhead, “Turkish Sofa,” Trafika Europe, 6 December 2020, Istanbul & New York.
“World Literature: Oscar Wilde & The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 29 October 2020, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“World Literature: The Tempest” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 25 June 2020, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“World Literature: Faust & Faustian Narratives (in two parts),” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 12 & 19 March 2020, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“World Literature: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita,” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 19 December 2019, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“World Literature: Toni Morrison,” Günün ve Güncelin Edebiyatı, 12 & 19 September 2019, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Memory in Literature,” Sanat Uzun İlham Sonsuz, 19 September 2016, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
“Madness in Literature,” Sanat Uzun İlham Sonsuz, 8 August 2016, Açık Radyo, Istanbul, Turkey.
