Prof. Dr. Oguzhan Yılmaz is a faculty member at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University in Türkiye. His research focuses on children’s literature, with particular attention to problem-oriented themes such as migration, violence, and peer bullying. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and coordinated projects in this field. As a visiting scholar at the University of Florida, he conducted a research project on migration and children’s books. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Children’s Literature and Language Education, one of the leading journals in Türkiye, and is an active member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL).

Elena Guerzoni earned her PhD in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Bologna, where she is Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Professor in Children’s Literature and a member of the Scientific Council of the CRLI – Centro di Ricerca in Letteratura per l’Infanzia [Research Centre in Children’s Literature]. Her doctoral research has investigated the history of Young Adult Literature and the representations of adolescence within contemporary Youth Fiction. She has conducted research at the International Youth Library in Munich and at the Department of Literature of the University of Antwerp. Among her recent publications: Come un fiume. Adolescenza e Youth Fiction: ritratti di identità metamorfiche [Like a River. Adolescence and Youth Fiction: Portraits of Metamorphic Identities], La scuola di Pitagora, Napoli 2025; Letteratura Young Adult [Young Adult Literature], in A. Nobile (ed.), Dizionario di Letteratura Giovanile. Generi, temi, problemi [Dictionary of Children’s and YA Lietarture. Genres, Themes, Problems], Morcelliana-Scholé, Brescia 2025; Letteratura Young Adult. Definizioni di un genere ‘irrequieto’ [Young Adult Literature. Definitions of a ‘Restless’ Genre], in A. Nobile, A. Mazzini (eds.), Letteratura per l’infanzia? Morfologia di una disciplina in trasformazione [Children’s Literature? Morphology of a Discipline Undergoing Transformation], Studium-Marcianum Press, Venezia 2024.

Fuling Deng received her PhD in Education from the University of Glasgow. She also holds a Med in Children’s Literature and Literacies. Research interests include: Asian postmodern picturebooks, Multimodality and intermediality of picturebooks, Teacher’s knowledge and response to picturebooks.

 Between 2009 and 2013, he completed his bachelor's degree in Turkish Language Teaching at Erzincan University, Faculty of Education. Between 2015 and 2017, he completed his master's degree in Turkish Language Education at Erzincan University/Institute of Social Sciences. Between 2017 and 2023, he completed his doctoral studies in Turkish Education at Erciyes University/Institute of Educational Sciences. Kılıç plays an active role in teaching Turkish as a foreign/second language and has conducted various academic studies on the subject. His academic work focuses particularly on language education, children's literature, reading culture, and teacher training processes.