Dr Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a prize-winning academic author and has published widely on crime fiction and contemporary literature. Dr Beyer is the author of three single-author scholarly monographs to date, Murder in a Few Words: Gender, Genre and Location in the Crime Short Story (McFarland, 2020), Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature: Writing Back to History and Oppression (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), and Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023). Her fourth monograph, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo, was published by Anthem Press in November 2024. Her fifth monograph, currently in progress and under contract with McFarland, is on the subject of true crime.

Dr Beyer has edited six books to date. These include Contemporary Crime Fiction: Crossing Boundaries, Merging Genres (ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), and Teaching Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2018). The latter book was shortlisted for the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. Her book Mothers Who Kill, co-edited with Josephine Savarese, was published by Demeter Press in February 2022. Decolonising the Literature Curriculum, her edited book on pedagogical scholarship, was published by Palgrave in March 2022, and was awarded the BACLS Edited Collection Prize.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel graduated from Hacettepe University, Department of English Linguistics in 1993. He completed his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Hertfordshire in England in 1997. He got his PhD with a thesis entitled “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy” at Liverpool University in England in 2001. He has published two academic books in Turkish on post-colonial novel, entitled as Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik [Culture and Identity in Postcolonial English Novel] in 2011 and Çağdaş İngiliz Romanında Küreselleşme, Göç ve Kültür [Globalisation, Migration and Culture in Contemporary British Novel]. He currently works as a Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Marmara University, Turkey. mehmet.celikel@marmara.edu.tr
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0402-9858

Dr. Christoph Haase, M.A., Ph.D.
English Department
UJEP
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Academic qualification
M.A. 1998, summa cum laude, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald
Ph.D. 2003, summa cum laude, Chemnitz University of Technology

Teaching
Linguistics of the English language 1998 – 2020: at the universities Greifswald, Chemnitz, Bielefeld (all Germany)
2009 – current: UJEP, Czech Republic
numerous international guest teaching assignments within ERASMUS (Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia)

Research interests
Cognitive linguistics; language acquisition, especially SLA, Morphosyntax from a cognitive-functional perspective; causation and causativity; e-learning, language and computers/language and corpora; English for Academic Purposes (EAP), natural science English

Publications (list upon request)
ca. 90 international publications (research papers, monographs, edited volumes), two papers with 15 Web of Science citations, h=1; four papers with 21 SCOPUS citations, h=2

Reviews
board of reviewers for Discourse & Interaction (MUNI Press);
invited reviewer for Journal of English Linguistics (SAGE), International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (Benjamins), Corpus Pragmatics (Springer), Routledge (Semantics series), De Gruyter Open, Cognitive Science Society, AussigerBeiträge, Journal of Pragmatics(Elsevier), Brno Studies in English (MUNI Press), Ostrava Journal of English Philology, Ege Journal of English Studies, Journal of Social Epistemology (Routledge)

Conferences (list upon request)
ca. 100 international conferences (as speaker, organizer, panelist, keynote speaker, or attendee), most notably organizer of the CHALLENGES series of conferences at KAJ/UJEP  

Teresa Gibert currently works as a Professor Emerita in the Department of Foreign Languages (Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras), at the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED). Prof. Gibert does research in English, American and Canadian Literatures.

Mette Rudvin completed her studies in Norway and the UK, and holds a PhD in Translation Studies. She taught English, translation and public service interpreting at the University of Bologna from 1996-2019, and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Palermo. She has taught a variety of subjects related to English language/literature, translation and dialogue interpreting, and has published widely nationally and internationally. In 2015 she set up the first multilingual continuous education course in interpreting in the legal sector at the University of Bologna; she works occasionally as a community- and legal interpreter and translator between Italian, English and Urdu. Her most recent publications include articles and books on interpreting in the workplace, legal and public-service interpreting in Italy, interpreting in the refugee setting, interpreting ethics, the interface between interpreting and philosophy, and English as a lingua franca. Her research/teaching interests also include oral narrative, Pakistan studies and more recently Food Writing. 

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