Dr. Senturk holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Kafkas University as the top student (class of 2010). Having pursued his MA studies in Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds in 2013, he received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Leicester, UK in 2019. Dr. Senturk was selected to represent the University of Leicester in a HeForShe United Nations project (2016-2019) against gender-based violence on campus. He was also the recipient of an award for "The Best Graduate Student Essay" contest organised by the Doris Lessing Society in 2017. His research interests lie in issues relating to gender, race and class in contemporary British fiction. He is specifically interested in critical social theory and critical literature pedagogy. He currently acts as the vice chair of the department, and as the deputy director in the School of Foreign Languages.

Antony Hoyte-West is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on linguistics, literature, and translation studies. A qualified translator and conference interpreter from several languages into his native English, he holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Silesia in Katowice, master’s degrees in modern languages, management, Latin American studies, Slavic studies, and conference interpreting from the universities of St Andrews, Oxford, and Galway, as well as two diplomas in piano performance. He is the author of over 90 publications on various topics, a number of which are indexed in Scopus or Web of Science. He has presented his research at over 50 international conferences in 20 countries, and is on the editorial or advisory boards of 8 peer-reviewed journals. He has been a visiting fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Educational Media (Braunschweig, Germany) and South West University “Neofit Rilski” (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) and also completed a temporary assistant professor (post-doc) contract at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland).