1981 yılında Malatya’nın Hekimhan ilçesinde doğdu. 2003 yılında İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümünden mezun oldu. 2008 yılında yüksek lisans eğitimini, İnönü Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalında, “Gülten Dayıoğlu’nun Çocuk Öykülerinde Değer Eğitimi ve Öykülerin Türkçeye Katkısı” adlı teziyle bitirdi. Doktora eğitimine 2010 yılında İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı Türkçe Öğretmenliği Programında başladı. 2003-2012 yılları arasında Malatya’da MEB’e bağlı okullarda Türkçe öğretmeni olarak çalıştı. 2012 yılında Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümüne öğretim görevlisi olarak atandı. Doktora öğrenimini 2016 yılında “Sekizinci Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Tartışmacı Metin Yazma Becerileri ile Bu Becerilere ilişkin Öğrenci ve Öğretmen Görüşleri” adlı teziyle tamamladı. 2018 yılından itibaren Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türkçe Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalında öğretim üyesi olarak görevine devam eden araştırmacının “Küçük Mektebliye: Yeni Millî Kırâ’at Kitabı Üzerine Bir İnceleme”, “Gülten Dayıoğlu’nun Çocuk Öyküleri (İnceleme)” adlı kitaplarının yanı sıra Türkçe eğitimi, yazma eğitimi, metin bilgisi ve çocuk edebiyatı alanlarında ulusal ve uluslararası çeşitli yayınları mevcuttur. Yazar, evli ve üç çocuk babasıdır.

Adriatik Derjaj is a full-time lecturer at the Department of Balkan Languages, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana.
He has about 20 years of work experience as a lecturer and researcher. After graduating in 2003 as an excellent student, with the recommendation of the department, he gained the right to postgraduate studies at the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara State University where in 2005 he graduated and earned the title of Specialist in Linguistic Sciences;
After completing his master's degree, he worked as a lecturer of Turkish for foreigners at TOMER - Ankara University, Turkey.
In 2012 he received his PhD in Linguistics (sociolinguistics)and in 2016 he earned the title of Associate Professor.
Areas of teaching and research expertise include Linguistics, Turkology, Medieval Literature, Oriental Studies, Philosophy of Language, Sociolinguistics, Didactics, and Intercultural and Touristic Communication.
He has participated in several national/international projects within the country and abroad. He is currently head of the Balkan Languages ​​Department and member of the Curricula Committee of the University of Tirana.

Books: - Turkish as a Foreign Language in Albania, Monograph, 2024, ISBN: 978-625-6134-36-2, Filiz, Istanbul, Turkey

- Comparative Albanian-Turkish Grammar, 2016, ISBN 978-605-9964-98-2 Camlica, Istanbul, Türkiye

Anna Calluori Holcombe was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA of Italian immigrant parents. She graduated cum laude with a BA in art education from Montclair State University in 1974. She received her MFA in ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1977. Teaching in higher education since 1978, her first position was at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, then at State University of New York at Brockport. In 1994, she was appointed Head of the Art Department at Kansas State University and served in that position for 6 years. From 2007 – 2010, she served as Director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida, taught for the next 12 years and is currently a Professor Emeritus.

Calluori Holcombe exhibits internationally, having work in shows in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, South Korea, China and Australia. She was awarded the Rotary Gold Medal for the 46th International Exhibition, Faenza, Italy in 1989. Her work is represented in numerous international journals such as Ceramics Technical, New Ceramics and Ceramica.

In 1997, she was honored as a Fellow of the NCECA. She is an elected member of the AIC-IAC since 2002. She was awarded a Fulbright to Turkey in 2013.

www.annaholcombe.com

Sylwia Filipowska, a Polish national, began her university studies in 2001 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She graduated from the Department of Polish Language and Literature in 2006 and from the Department of Turkish Studies in 2009. Since 2009, she has been working as a faculty member at the Department of Turkish Studies at the Jagiellonian University. In March 2016, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled “The Image of Nineteenth-Century Istanbul in Polish and Turkish Memoir Literature” (Obraz dziewiętnastowiecznego Stambułu w polskiej i tureckiej literaturze wspomnieniowej). She speaks Turkish and English as foreign languages. Her research area is contemporary Turkish literature.