Konya – Kadınhanı’nda doğan Ahmet Koçak, Marmara Üniversitesi Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Öğretmenliği Bölümünden mezun oldu. Aynı Üniversitenin Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’nde Şehbenderzade Filibeli Ahmet Hilmi Efendi tarafından çıkartılan “Hikmet Gazetesi İnceleme, Tahlilî Fihrist ve Seçilmiş Metinler” teziyle yüksek lisansını ve “XIX. Yüzyıl Türk Romanında Avrupa” konulu çalışmasıyla da doktora eğitimini tamamladı. 2002-2012 yılları arasında Kocaeli Üniversitesi Türk Dili Bölümü’nde Öğretim Görevlisi olarak çalıştı. 2007 yılında bir dönem Batum Üniversitesinde, 2013 yılında da bir yıl süreyle Slovenya Maribor Üniversitesinde (University of Maribor) Türkçe ve Türk Kültürü ile ilgili dersler verdi. Yeni Türk edebiyatı ve Türkoloji alanında kitap, makale, bildiri, ansiklopedi maddesi ve çeşitli yayınları bulunan yazar, aynı alanda farklı projelerde yürütücü, araştırmacı ve danışman olarak görev aldı. Koçak’ın başlıca çalışma alanları Türk hikâye ve romanı, şiir, eleştiri, hatıra/anı, mektup, seyahatname, Batı edebiyatı ve akımları, edebiyat kuramları, edebiyat sosyolojisi, edebi devirler ve şahsiyetler, kültür, sanat ve edebiyat dergiciliğidir. Halen İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmalarına devam eden yazar, aynı zamanda İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Türkçe Öğretimi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (TÖMER) Müdürlüğünü de sürdürmektedir. 2010 yılından beri yılda iki sayı yayımlanan Uluslararası hakemli Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları dergisinin de editörlüğünü yürütmektedir. 

I graduated from the Department of Turkish Philology at Shumen University in 1997. Since 2000, I have been teaching and conducting academic research at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Shumen University. I received my PhD in 2018 with my thesis entitled "Contemporary Turkish Legal Terminology". In 2022, I obtained the title of Associate Professor with my monograph entitled "Polite Expressions in Turkish: Words of Address, Greeting, and Farewell". Since 2001, I have authored 11 books related to the teaching of Turkish in schools and universities. I have also contributed to 12 dictionaries in Bulgarian-Turkish and Turkish-Bulgarian languages, covering various fields from commerce to law, gastronomy to the plant kingdom. I have edited books used in elective Turkish language courses in Bulgaria.

He graduated from Uludağ University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology in 2003. In 2004, he was appointed as a research assistant to Selçuk University Literature Sociology Department. He completed his master's degree in Selçuk University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology in 2005 and his doctorate in 2009. During his doctoral studies, he took courses on politics and communication at Maastricht International Communication Faculty (Hogeschool Zuyd). In 2013, he became an associate professor of sociology. Dictionary of Socialization, Social Construction of Politicity: Political Socialization and Freedom Fighter and Islamic Thinker: Aliya İzzetbegoviç (Compilation, with Faruk Karaarslan), Aliya İzzetbegoviç and July 15 from the Eyes of the Academy (Compilation, with Bengül Güngörmez), as well as articles, book reviews and book reviews in journals such as İnsan ve Toplum, Tezkire, Hece, Demokrasi Platformu, Muhafazakâr Düşünce, Sosyoloji Divanı. He worked as a faculty member at Marmara University Faculty of Communication (2014-2015). He is currently working as a faculty member at Konya Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Sociology. He continues his studies on social theory, Turkish modernization, political sociology, conservatism and sociology of childhood.

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.

She is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul Medeniyet University. She received her bachelor’s degree (1999) from the Department of Philosophy at Istanbul University, her master’s degree from the same institution’s Program in the History of Philosophy, her second master’s degree (2010) from Boston University in Urban Policy, and her PhD (2010) from Marmara University in the Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

In addition to her two books, Posthuman: City and Body (2021) and Globalizing Darkness (2023), she has published academic articles and essays focusing on evil, the human, gender, philosophical anthropology, the city, and debates in philosophy, as well as book chapters on Turkish thought, philosophical anthropology, and gender studies. She serves as the book series editor of the posthumanism series published by Siyasal Publishing House. Her current research continues within the framework of questions and problems in philosophical anthropology, the city, the human, posthumanism, contemporary body debates, philosophies of evil, and philosophies of gender.