Gulsin is doctoral candidate and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Münster and, since May 2024, a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Wesleyan University's Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. She has studied, researched, and taught at institutions including the University of Göttingen, Harvard University, and Yale University. Her current research, titled Reading Reading: Affect and American Literature in the Twenty-first Century, explores the intersections of reading, affect, and literary form. Her second project, Trace Poetics, examines documental tendencies in contemporary American poetry. Gulsin's interests span contemporary poetry, theories of reading, affect theory, and continental philosophy. She is also co-editor of the New American Studies Journal and Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies.

Lucy is a postdoctoral researcher in Twenty-first Century American poetry. She completed her PhD on 'Donald Hall's Poetics of Process' at the University of Leeds. Her scholarship has been published in journals including Essays in Criticism and Oxford Research in English, and is forthcoming in The Cambridge Quarterly and Modernist Cultures. In her current academic work, she is exploring the concept of 'Literary Curation'. Lucy has studied and taught in Glasgow, Alabama, Dublin, Tokyo and York. She is a practicing poet and writes regularly for PNR and Stand. She is also passionate about outreach and works as a public engagement specialist.