Merve Bekiryazıcı is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University/Turkey. She received her MA degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Liverpool/UK and completed her PhD at Ataturk University/Turkey. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature, Neo-Victorian literature and posthumanism.

F.Gül Koçsoy graduated  from the Department of English Language and Literature at Ataturk University in Erzurum. She completed her MA on Katherine Anne Porter’s short fiction and her Doctorate on Willa Cather’s novels. After her graduation from the university, she worked as an English teacher for four years in Erzurum and as an instructor at Karadeniz Technical University in Trabzon for eight years. Currently, she works as an Associate Prof. Dr. at Firat University in Elazig, Turkey. Her research interests are American culture and literature. He teaches American literature. In recent years, she has taught academic writing, translation and textual analysis.