Location Türkiye
Years 2025-27
Director
Dr Peter Cherry
BIAA
Funding British Academy International Writing Workshops Programme
This project targets Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from universities across Türkiye working in interdisciplinary gender studies.
Through two workshops and a mentoring scheme, 20-25 ECRs will be supported to:
Participants will attend two in-person workshops, taking place at the British Institute at Ankara on 23-24 October 2025 and 23-24 March 2026, where they will gain insight into writing for publication and applying for grants with editors of leading journals and publishers of academic monographs. Participants will also be assigned a mentor who will support them to write an article suitable for publication in a leading international academic journal.
Peter Cherry received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. He joined the BIAA in 2017-18 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He was Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature at Bilkent University from 2018-2021, Visiting Lecturer at the University of West London from 2021-22, and worked as Communications and External Relations Officer for an NGO in Moldova from 2022-2023 before taking up the post of Assistant Director. His first book, Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain, was published by IB Tauris in 2021. He has also published on Turkish literature and cinema.