Dr Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed is an independent scholar, editor, and writer based in Birmingham, UK. She earned her PhD in English from Lancaster University in 2018, fully funded by the Turkish Ministry of Education. Her research focuses on the Gothic mode in Turkish literature and film, examining its historical evolution through ideological, cultural, and political shifts. She has published critical essays on popular genres in Turkish literature and cinema, as well as representations of Turkish identity in British and American Gothic texts. Her recent publications include “Global Gothic 1: Islamic Gothic” in The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3 – Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (CUP, 2021) and “Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Gothic Novels of the 1920s” in Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past (UWP, 2022).