Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan KAPLAN was born in 1991 in Ankara, Türkiye. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Ankara. In 2009, he was admitted to the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Selçuk University, and graduated in 2013. After graduation, he worked as a Turkish Language and Literature teacher at Konya Dr. Ali Rıza Bahadır Anatolian Imam Hatip High School for one year. In 2014, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center (SÜ-TÖMER) of Selçuk University. During his tenure, he both taught Turkish to foreign students and served as the education coordinator of the same institution between 2017 and 2020.
In 2016, Haktan Kaplan received his master’s degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Necmettin Erbakan University under the supervision of retired Asst. Prof. Dr. Aziz AYVA with a thesis titled “Brother and Brotherhood in the Epics of the Turkic World.” He completed his doctoral studies at the same university and institute under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Selçuk PEKER with his dissertation titled “Shrines and Places of Pilgrimage in the Folk Culture of Bolu and Düzce.” Since 2021, he has been working as a Lecturer (PhD) at the Department of Turkish Language, Selçuk University, and continues his academic research in the same department. In March 2023, he applied to the Interuniversity Council of Türkiye and was awarded the title of Associate Professor on July 20, 2023.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan Kaplan is the author of four scholarly books and two textbooks. In addition, he has contributed thirteen book chapters, fifteen articles published in national and international journals, and has served as the editor of four academic books. He has also presented, twenty papers at various national and international symposiums over the years.
Married and the father of one child, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan KAPLAN currently serves as the Head of the Department of Turkish Language at Selçuk University, continuing his academic and administrative duties.

Doç. Dr. Ünsal Yılmaz YEŞİLDAL, 1980 yılında Bartın’da doğdu. İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Zonguldak’ta tamamlayan Yeşildal, lisans öğrenimini Selçuk Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Öğretmenliği Bölümünde (1998-2003), yüksek lisans öğrenimini Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Türk Halk Edebiyatı Bilim Dalında (2004-2007), doktora öğrenimini de Gazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Türk Halk Edebiyatı Bilim Dalında (2010-2015) tamamlamıştır. 2003-2011 yılları arasında Millî Eğitim Bakanlığına bağlı okullarda öğretmenlik ve okul yöneticiliği yapan yazar, 2011-2015 yılları arasında Gazi Üniversitesinde Türk Dili Okutmanı olarak görev yapmış, 2015 yılında Akdeniz Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümüne öğretim üyesi olarak atanmıştır. 2020 yılında Türk Halk Bilimi alanında Doçent ünvanı alan Yeşildal’ın Web of Science (WOS) tarafından indekslenen dergiler başta
olmak üzere çok sayıda makalesi bulunmaktadır. Yeşildal, müstakil olarak yayımlanan 2 kitabına ek olarak yine çok sayıda kitaba yazar olarak katkı sunmuştur. Çalışmaları
çoğunlukla Türk halk edebiyatı, Türk halk bilimi ve Türk mitolojisi üzerine olan yazar özellikle hayvan sembolizmi üzerine kaleme aldığı çalışmalarıyla dikkat çekmektedir. 

I'm Louie Giray, an assistant professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, School of Foundational Studies and Education at Mapúa University, Philippines. I serve as a board member at the Research Center for Global and International Education at Khazar University in Azerbaijan. Recently, I've been inducted as a research fellow at Shinawatra University, Thailand. Armed with a master's degree in communication and a bachelor's in secondary education, I teach courses related to communication and the arts. I've published in several international journals. But truth be told, my heart belongs to personal essays. Unlike the rigid, colonized format of Western academic writing, essays let me breathe. They allow me to see the connection between myself and the written word; it's both reflective and therapeutic. I've been immersed in the world of higher education for nearly a decade now, constantly navigating the uneasy space between passion and pressure, integrity and survival.

Jorge Arroita is currently a PhD Candidate in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Salamanca. He is also President of the academic journal Cuadernos de Aleph, and member of the cluster COPOS – Cognition in Comparative Poetics, at the University of Salamanca. In his thesis, he conducts research on intertextuality, focused on the creation of a literary theory named as ‘diatextuality’, from which he tries to analyze, break down and categorize the different ways in which textual elements may be transformed from one text to another; likewise, fostering an interdisciplinary approach between literature, science, and philosophy, according to which the aim is to stress the importance of diachronic relationships, processes and transformations as a way of overcoming temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. He has published his works in academic journals such as Cuadernos de Aleph, Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies, Impossibilia, 452ºF, Tropelías, Anales de Literatura Española, LEJANA. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve, or Selçuk Journal of the University of Letters, as well as in several monographs on literary theory, comparative literature, and Spanish or Spanish-American Literature.

He has worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra (Secção de Estudos Espanhóis), and has done a research stay at the University of Aveiro (2024). Besides, he is part of the Organizing Committee of the 1st, 2nd, and 3th International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, co-director of the XXII International Conference ALEPH, ‘Tras las huellas del silencio en las literaturas y culturas hispánicas’ (Université de Strasbourg, 2026), co-editor, along with Víctor Bermúdez, María Elena Higueruelo, and Friederike Foedtke, of the volume Dimensiones teóricas de la lírica (2026), and Field editor for the journal Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters.

Lisans derecesini Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünden, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora derecelerini Atılım Üniversitesi İngiliz Kültürü ve Edebiyatı alanında burslu olarak tamamladı. Shakespeare, Sanayi Romanları, Felsefe ve Edebiyat, Edebiyat Kuramları üzerine çalışmaları bulunmaktadır. Aksaray Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde, Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yabanci Diller Yüksekokulu'nda çalıştıktan sonra Selçuk Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde çalışmaya devam etmektedir. 

Nazan YILDIZ ÇİÇEKÇİ 2004 yılında Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünden mezun oldu. 2005 yılında aynı bölümde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başladı. 2007 yılında aynı üniversitede Uygulamalı Dilbilimi alanında yüksek lisansını “Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı Edebiyat Derslerindeki Eleştirel Düşünce Ortamını Edebiyat Tabanlı Eleştirel Düşünce Programıyla Geliştirmek üzerine Deneysel Bir Çalışma” adlı teziyle tamamladı. 2008 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde doktora öğrencisi oldu ve aynı bölümde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başladı. 2015 yılında “Geoffrey Chaucer’ın Canterbury Hikayeleri’nde Melezleşme ve Sınıflar Arasındaki Sınırların Yeniden Çizilmesi” adlı teziyle doktora derecesini aldı. Oregon Üniversitesi, Amerikan İngiliz Enstitüsünden eleştirel düşünce becerileri üzerine sertifika sahibidir. Ulusal ve uluslararası yayın ve bildirileri bulunmaktadır. Orta Çağ İngiliz Edebiyatı, Orta Çağ Tarihi, Chaucer, Eski İngiliz Edebiyatı, İngiliz Romanı, Kadın Çalışmaları, Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat, Sömürgecilik ve Sömürgecilik sonrası Dönemi İngiliz Edebiyatı, ve Eleştirel Düşünce ve Edebiyat başlıca çalışma alanlarıdır. Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü’nde doçent olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan KAPLAN was born in 1991 in Ankara, Türkiye. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Ankara. In 2009, he was admitted to the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the Faculty of Letters, Selçuk University, and graduated in 2013. After graduation, he worked as a Turkish Language and Literature teacher at Konya Dr. Ali Rıza Bahadır Anatolian Imam Hatip High School for one year. In 2014, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center (SÜ-TÖMER) of Selçuk University. During his tenure, he both taught Turkish to foreign students and served as the education coordinator of the same institution between 2017 and 2020.
In 2016, Haktan Kaplan received his master’s degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Necmettin Erbakan University under the supervision of retired Asst. Prof. Dr. Aziz AYVA with a thesis titled “Brother and Brotherhood in the Epics of the Turkic World.” He completed his doctoral studies at the same university and institute under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Selçuk PEKER with his dissertation titled “Shrines and Places of Pilgrimage in the Folk Culture of Bolu and Düzce.” Since 2021, he has been working as a Lecturer (PhD) at the Department of Turkish Language, Selçuk University, and continues his academic research in the same department. In March 2023, he applied to the Interuniversity Council of Türkiye and was awarded the title of Associate Professor on July 20, 2023.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan Kaplan is the author of four scholarly books and two textbooks. In addition, he has contributed thirteen book chapters, fifteen articles published in national and international journals, and has served as the editor of four academic books. He has also presented, twenty papers at various national and international symposiums over the years.
Married and the father of one child, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haktan KAPLAN currently serves as the Head of the Department of Turkish Language at Selçuk University, continuing his academic and administrative duties.