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. 

Elena Paola Carola Alessiato is Associated Professor for History of Philosophy at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples (Italy).

She has carried out training, research, and teaching experiences in various cultural institutions and universities in Germany, Italy, Canada, and France. As a scholar of German political culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, she has published in various languages on Fichte and German Idealism, Jaspers and existential philosophy, and Thomas Mann and the First World War. 

Among her most recent research projects there are works on the philosophy of happiness and the digital society.

Her classical education is complemented by interdisciplinary projects on the methodology of knowledge, digital natives, ethical competencies in education, and the relationship between artificial intelligence, philosophy, and didactics.

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Psikoloji ile Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler bölümlerinden 2011 yılında mezun olan Hatice Ekici, yüksek lisans eğitimini Sabancı Üniversitesi Uyuşmazlık Analizi ve Çözümü programında tam burslu olarak tamamlamıştır. İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyal Psikoloji Doktora programından mezun olan Hatice Ekici, sosyal psikoloji alanında ulusal ve uluslararası prestijli dergilerde yayımlanmış çeşitli akademik çalışmalara sahiptir.
 

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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.