Prof. Ali Fuat Arıcı completed his undergraduate education in the Department of Classroom Teaching at Süleyman Demirel University (1998), and his master's degree (2002) and doctorate (2005) in Turkish Teaching at Atatürk University. After working as a teacher at the Ministry of National Education for 10 years, he was appointed to Dumlupınar University, Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish Education as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Arıcı, who became an Associate Professor in 2011, became a Professor in the field of Turkish Education in 2017. Prof. Arıcı currently works for Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Social Sciences and Turkish Education. Prof. Dr. Ali Fuat Arıcı has many articles published in journals indexed in national and international directories. Prof. Arıcı's research areas include Turkish language and literature education, and Turkish education.

Linda Torresin (PhD) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie–Seal of Excellence postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the University of Padua with the RETEACH (Russian through litErature inTErcultural approaCH) research project. With major expertise in Russian as a Foreign Language study, her main research focus lies in intercultural education, textbook theory, teaching of literature, and teaching of translation. She is the editor of the “Rusalka” series for Damocle Ed. (Venice). Since December 2022, she has coordinated the interuniversity research group RiDRU (Research on the Teaching of Russian at the University). As the leader of the Lend (Language and New Didactics) Russian Group, she conducts training and refresher courses for teachers.