International Health Humanities Network Membership

Sima Imsir obtained her PhD from the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester in 2018 and she is a recipient of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Ph.D. scholarship. Her current book project, entitled Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth-Century Turkey, focuses on constructions and uses of illness in modern Turkish literature (Routledge, contracted). Her research outcomes have appeared in several edited volumes and journals, including Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2021), Journal of Research in Gender Studies (2014), Turkish Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021), Women of the Middle East (Routledge, 2016), and Monsters in Society: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Brill, 2014).