Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ali Çelikel 1993 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi, İngiliz dil Bilimi Bölümünden mezun oldu. Yüksek Lisansını 1997 yılında, Hertfordshire Üniversitesi, İngiliz Edebiyatı bölümünde tamamladı. Doktorasını 2001 yılında “The Post-Colonial Condition: The Fiction of Rushdie, Kureishi and Roy” başlıklı teziyle, Liverpool Üniversitesi, İngiliz Edebiyatı bölümünden aldı. Sömürgecilik sonrası İngiliz romanı üzerinde Türkçe olarak 2011 yılında yayımlanmış Sömürgecilik Sonrası İngiliz Romanında Kültür ve Kimlik ve 2017 yılında yayımlanmış Çağdaş İngiliz Romanında Küreselleşme, Göç ve Kültür adlı iki akademik kitabı bulunmaktadır. Halen Marmara Üniversitesi, İngiliz dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümünde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır. mehmet.celikel@marmara.edu.tr
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Dr. Aleksandra Izgarjan is Full professor at the English Department, University of Novi Sad. She teaches courses in American literature, culture and history on BA, MA and PhD level of studies. She is the president of the Association for American Studies in South East Europe and vice-president of European Association for American Studies. As a Fulbright scholar, she was a guest lecturer at New York University and Howard University, USA. She has authored three books and published more than fifty articles in the field of literature and gender studies in national and international journals. 

Ann M. Fox is a Professor of English at Davidson College, where she specializes modern and contemporary dramatic literature, graphic medicine, and disability studies in drama, literature, and visual culture. She has published extensively, with over two dozen scholarly articles on disability and representation. Her honors include selection as an American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow (twice), and Davidson College Boswell Family Faculty Fellow.
In 2009, she co-curated one of the first exhibitions on disability arts in the United States: RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture. She has also co-curated other exhibitions including STARING, Re/Presenting HIV/AIDS, and exhibitions with the Ford Foundation Gallery, Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA and Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning.
She received her MA and PhD from Indiana University Bloomington, and her undergraduate degrees in English and Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. 

Chris Walsh is Associate Professor of English at Boston University. He was Fulbright Lecturer in the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University in 2023, and also served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Burkina Faso from 2000 to 2002. Walsh’s book Cowardice: A Brief History was published in by Princeton University Press and his work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Irish Times, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Yale Review, among other places.