is a Research Assistant in the Department of New Media and Communication (English) at Üsküdar University. His work focuses on the film industry, new cinema history, screen studies, children and media, and qualitative research methods. Akdağ earned his master’s degree in Media and Communication Studies at Galatasaray University in 2022. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication Sciences (English) at Kadir Has University.

Akdağ’s research explores the evolving landscape of cinema and media, including the impact of digital platforms on communal viewing experiences, representations of asexuality and queer identities in contemporary television, and the intersection of child labour and precarity in film. His recent publications include critical analyses of series such as Heartstopper and Big Mouth, as well as studies on cinema history in the Arab world and Turkey. He has contributed book reviews and articles to journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Textum, and Studies in World Cinema.

is Junior Professor of Italian and Spanish Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on the comparison of grammatical phenomena across contemporary and historical non-standard Romance varieties. He has worked extensively on various aspects of the syntax of Barese, the local variety spoken in the city of Bari (Italy), as well as on the syntax of “heritage” Italo-Romance varieties currently spoken in the Americas. He has published on both topics. Visit his Academia profile.

is Associate Professor at the Department of Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, Istanbul University. He holds a PhD in Italian Language and Literature from Istanbul University, a postgraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Yeditepe University, and an undergraduate degree in Oriental Languages and Civilisations from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

His research focuses on Italian literature, comparative literature, travel writing, and the intersections of Western and Eastern literary traditions. He has published extensively on authors such as Antonio Tabucchi, Leonardo Sciascia, Cesare Pavese, and Edmondo De Amicis, and has contributed to numerous edited volumes and academic journals. Notable works include studies on travel and metaphor in Tabucchi’s writing, the reception of Sciascia in Turkey, and contemporary Italian graphic novels.

He has served on the Publication Committee for LİTERA: Journal of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies (2017–2019) and is a principal member of the Associazione di Amicizia Italia-Turchia. He regularly acts as a peer reviewer for national and international journals, and has supervised postgraduate theses on topics ranging from Italian literature to literary theory and semiotics. In December 2025, he organised the symposium "Rethinking Giovanni Verga: Literature, Art, and Society" at Istanbul University. Visit his Academia profile.

is Professor of European History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St Catharine’s College. Her research explores medieval European history with a particular focus on frontiers, religious and cultural interaction, Christianisation, and the formation of identity. She has worked extensively on the place of non-Christian groups in medieval society, the processes of state-building, and the uses of medieval themes in modern nationalism.

Her book At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims, and Pagans in Medieval Hungary c. 1000-c. 1300 received the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and brought new insights into the relationships between Christians and non-Christians on the frontiers of Latin Europe. Berend has also published influential studies on Christianisation and the rise of monarchy, as well as the interconnected histories of Central Europe in the Middle Ages.

She has held visiting professorships and fellowships at leading institutions across Europe and beyond, including Stockholm, Mannheim, Paris, Kyoto, Valladolid, Budapest/Vienna, and Bochum. Her contributions to the field have been recognised with numerous honours, including an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm and election as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Visit her Academia profile.

is a German historian of science whose research focuses on institutions, mathematics, cartography, and cross-cultural knowledge exchange in Islamicate societies and the Mediterranean world from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, she has held positions at leading institutions across Europe and the United States, including Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the University of Seville, Aga Khan University, and the University of Oklahoma.

Educated in mathematics and Near Eastern studies, Brentjes earned her PhD at TU Dresden with research on the history of linear programming, followed by a second doctorate and a habilitation at Leipzig University focused on number theory in Arabic and Persian texts. Her work is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach, bridging the history of mathematics, cartography, patronage, higher education, and the arts.

Brentjes has published widely on the transmission and transformation of scientific knowledge across cultures. Her book Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700) (Brepols, 2018) examines the educational structures and practices that shaped scientific inquiry in the medieval Islamic world. She is also known for Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th-17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge (Ashgate, 2010), which explores the movement and adaptation of knowledge through travel and encounter. As an editor, she has contributed to volumes such as Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500 and the Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies.

Her recent research includes a new interpretation of the Book on the Balance of Wisdom by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini and the creation of an international image database on the visualisation of the heavens in Eurasia and North Africa until 1700. Brentjes has been recognised with numerous honours, including the Kenneth O. May Prize from the International Commission on the History of Mathematics and membership in the International Academy of the History of Science.

Throughout her career, Brentjes has illuminated the complex interactions between scientific traditions, cultural boundaries, and the movement of ideas, offering new perspectives on the history of science and its global contexts. Visit her Academia profile.

is a scholar specialising in Germanic philology, with a focus on Old and Middle English language and literature. She is currently an adjunct lecturer in Germanic Philology at the University of Foggia and the University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', and previously held this position at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples (2021-2023). From 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calabria, where she also taught courses in Textual Criticism, Philology, and Computational Linguistics. She earned her PhD from the University of Calabria in 2021, was a visiting PhD student at the University of Birmingham in 2019, and participated in the Arnamagnaean Summer School in Manuscript Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Her research spans both Old and Middle English periods. She has explored the Exeter Book Riddles and Wonders of the East in parallel, examining how these texts interrogate the relationships between humans, animals, and hybrid creatures — a study culminating in her monograph, Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England (Peter Lang, 2023). Bria has also contributed to the study of the Galfridian historical tradition, analysing Laȝamon’s Brut from various perspectives, including the portrayal of King Leir and the development of supernatural elements in Arthurian narratives, as well as the transmission of Arthurian material in the Prose Brut chronicles.

Recently, her research has focused on literary aspects of the Arthurian tradition, with particular emphasis on representations of Morgan Le Fay in Middle English literature. Visit her Academia profile.

was awarded her PhD from the University of Liverpool for her work on 19th-century music hall star Vesta Tilley and her audience.  She is working on a book project on the cabarets of Madame Arthur and the Carrousel and their global impact in the 1950s and 1960s. She is an associate researcher at the University of Toulouse and works as a librarian in France. Visit her ResearchGate profile.

is Adjunct Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He earned his PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies from the Universities of Udine and Trieste, focusing on the poet and nobleman Oswald von Wolkenstein. Capelli’s research encompasses medieval and early modern German literature, Middle English texts, the interplay between religion and literature, authorship, and the reception of medieval themes in contemporary music and culture.

He has published a critical edition and translation of selected songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein (2024), and his scholarship includes studies on medieval multilingualism, Germanic philology, and Romance-Germanic contact. Capelli is actively engaged in projects on Alpine and minority languages and frequently presents at international conferences and seminars. He is a member of several academic societies dedicated to Germanic studies and medieval philology. Visit his Academia profile.

is Assistant Professor and Erasmus Coordinator in the Faculty of Communication at Üsküdar University, Istanbul. She was awarded the Ibn Haldun Doctoral Scholarship in  Social Sciences in 2014. She completed her doctorate in Communication Studies at Marmara University (Istanbul), focusing on the institutionalisation of the Turkish language in Ottoman and Early Republican newspapers, and carried out postdoctoral research in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests are communication and language, press history, sociolinguistics, and digital humanities. Dr. Cristaldi has also presented on Byzantine and Islamic medieval riddles at several international conferences. Visit her Academia profile. 

is Junior Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne, specialising in digital and computational editing of medieval texts and the philology of Germanic languages. Her research bridges traditional manuscript studies and digital methods, with a particular focus on interactive divinatory texts (“books of fortune”) and the development of digital scholarly editions. Cugliana earned her PhD in Language Sciences and Germanic Philology as part of a joint program between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Cologne, where she created a digital edition of a medieval German Marco Polo manuscript.

She is internationally active, collaborating with research institutes such as the Institute for Documentology and Editing (IDE) and the THINK collective, and serves as Associate Editor of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Her work explores the formalisation of editorial workflows and the interdisciplinary application of computational methods to historical texts, advancing the field of digital philology. Visit her Academia profile.

is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research explores the politics of heritage, urbanisation, coastal land reclamation, and environmentalism in Southeast Asia. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at CNRS UMR Géographie-cités in Paris (France).

Previously, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) fellowship for the project Malaysian Reclaimed Landscapes: Urbanization, Heritage, and Sustainability along the Littoral (MaReLand), conducted at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc. The project analysed environmental activism and the critique of heritage hierarchies, examined urbanisation at sea, and explored how rights to the city and the sea are negotiated. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Malaysia, MaReLand also investigated compensation policies for artificial islands, with particular attention to recent developments in Penang and Langkawi.

De Giosa is the author of the monograph World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). Visit his Google Scholar profile. 

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University (UUNL), where he researches the history of knowledge, diplomacy, and health in the Mediterranean during the “long” nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work focuses on the complex relationships between the Ottoman Empire and European countries in the Balkans and North Africa, with a particular emphasis on Italy and Switzerland.

He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Fiesole (EUI) in 2021, with a dissertation entitled The Mediterranean Mirror. Italo-Ottoman Relations in an Age of Transition, 1856-1871. He has published widely, including the volume Reports of Cesare Durando, Italian Vice-Consul in Sarajevo (1863-1867) and articles on Italo-Ottoman diplomacy, Ottoman-Swiss relations, and public health in the Mediterranean.

Giorgio has led several international research projects as Principal Investigator, including Pandemics and Borders (Swiss Network for International Studies, 2021-2023) and The Profession of Consul (Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici, 2023-2024). Since September 2024, he has been part of the ERC Cooperation project at Utrecht University, directed by Prof. Ozan Ozavci.

His monograph, Italo-Ottoman Relations in the Age of the Congress of Paris: Mirroring the ‘Other’, 1856-1871, was published by Bloomsbury. Visit his Academia profile.

is an Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Pavia, Department of Humanities. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Florence and a PhD in Germanic Studies. Francini teaches Germanic Philology and History of the English Language at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and has previously lectured at the University of Bergamo.

Her research focuses on the Gothic tradition, medieval Bible translations in Germanic languages, Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose, Norse literature, and Lombard onomastics. She has participated in nationally funded research projects on medieval text transmission and editorial models, and is actively involved in academic societies, including the Italian Association of Germanic Philology (AIFG) and the International Arthurian Society (IAS). 

Francini’s scholarly output includes critical editions and translations such as Saga di Björn, campione dei valligiani di Hítardalr (Unipress, 2004), the Gothic Gospel of John (Sestante Edizioni, 2009), and The Anglo-Saxon Gospel of John (PUP, 2019). She has co-edited volumes on medievalism and published widely on topics including medieval Germanic literature, editorial practices, and cultural memory. Browse her publications.

was awarded her Master’s degree in English Language and Literature (2004) by Istanbul Kültür University, completing a thesis on Critical Reading under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nebile Direkçigil. She completed her PhD in Journalism (2012) at Istanbul University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Nurdoğan Rigel. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Political Humour in Political Communication: A Case Study—An Analysis of Semih Balcıoğlu’s “Güle Güle İstanbul” Cartoons, examined political satire within the framework of political communication.

Güder has held academic appointments at several higher education institutions. Following a period as a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Trakya University, she continued her academic career as an instructor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Istanbul Kültür University, where she remained until 2016. In 2018, she was awarded the title of Associate Professor in Communication Studies. She is currently Professor at Üsküdar University, teaching in the Departments of New Media and Communication and English Translation and Interpreting at undergraduate, Master’s, and doctoral levels.

Alongside her teaching responsibilities, Güder holds key administrative positions, including Director of the Üsküdar University Solution-Oriented Women’s Studies Centre (ÜSÇÖZÜM) and Coordinator of the New Media and Urban Research Group. Her teaching portfolio includes core and advanced courses such as Critical Digital Literacy, Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy, Intercultural Communication, Digital Media and Translation, Discourse Analysis, Communication Theories, Urban Sociology, Media and Ideology, Political Communication, and Postmodernism.

Her research adopts a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, with a particular focus on digital humanities, digital media, epistemology, and the philosophy of technology. Her main research interests include algorithmic culture, augmented intelligence, memory studies, critical and trustworthy artificial intelligence, metacognitive reading strategies, neurocognitive critical epistemology, Neoplatonism, and political epistemology. She has published extensively at both national and international levels, including journal articles, books, and book chapters.

Güder is the author of several influential books, including The Language of Persuasion and Media, The Watching Gaze, A Final Look at Istanbul, and Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy: Epistemological and Neuro-Cognitive Transformations. Her academic work has been recognised with major international awards, including the “Best Presentation Paper” award (CIM Conference, USA, 2013) and the “Best Paper” award (HSSMR International Conference, Barcelona, 2020). Visit her Academia profile.

is an independent scholar and sessional instructor at Corpus Christi College at the University of British Columbia (UBC), specialising in East Asian and North American history, migration, and archival studies. She holds a PhD in East Asian History and an MS in Information Studies (Archives) from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA in Educational Studies from UBC.

Her research focuses on the Japanese diaspora, particularly on archival silences and the recovery of historical evidence. She has taught East Asian History, Asian Canadian, and Asian Migration courses at UBC and Simon Fraser University, and previously served as Japanese Language Librarian at UBC. She also works with the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources and was a scholar with the Past Wrongs Future Choices project at the University of Victoria.

Her book, Kaleidoscope: The Uchiyama Bookstore and its Sino-Japanese Visionaries (Earnshaw Books, 2022), explores the transnational history of a Shanghai bookstore that became a site of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange during wartime. Kato’s publications include articles in Modern Asian Studies, History Today, and contributions to edited volumes such as Translating the Occupation (UBC Press, 2021) and Digital Meijis (UBC Library, 2018). Visit her Academia profile. 

is a PhD candidate at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). He received his Mgr. degree in History from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) in 2012, and furthered his academic training at the University of Hradec Králové during the spring-summer semester of 2020-2021.

Kepsha’s archaeological experience ranges from participating in international excavations in Sicily, focused on the Early Middle Ages (5th-8th centuries), to leading expeditions in Ukraine that have investigated Greek-Roman poleis, Medieval Rus’ (10th-12th centuries), and the phenomenon of Rus’ medievalism in the Transcarpathian region during the late 12th-14th centuries.

His research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, encompassing borders and border identities in Rus’, the societies of the Polovtsians, Cumans, and Kipchaks in the Black Sea region, and the complex dynamics of Rus’-Polovtsian relations between the 1050s and 1100s. He also explores themes such as nature and landscape, memory and leadership, emotions and charisma, as well as relics and the supernatural within the context of medieval Rus’. Visit his Academia profile.

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she also serves as Associate Director of the Research Centre for Translation. She received her PhD in 2015 from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her research focuses on the translations of Chinese classics by Jesuit and Protestant missionaries, with particular attention to the intersection of theology and textual interpretation. In 2020, she published Chinese Theology and Translation: The Christianity of the Jesuit Figurists and their Christianized Yijing with Routledge, and co-edited The Newly Edited Song Long Yuan’s Commentaries on Daodejing 《道德經舊注精編》, published by Shanghai Joint Publishing.

Dr Wei’s article, “In the Light and Shadow of the Dao: Two Figurists, Two Intellectual Webs”, appeared in the Journal of Translation Studies and was recognised as Joint Runner-up for the Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar in March 2020. Her contributions have also been acknowledged with the Young Researcher Award for the year 2021-2022 by CUHK. During the academic year 2023-2024, she was a Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar. Visit her Academia profile.

is an expert in Germanic Philology and Ethnobotany, currently a contract lecturer in Ethnobotany and a researcher in Botanical Iconography at the University of Bari. She is a consultant on wild species and their culinary uses, and the author of La Cuoca Selvatica (Bompiani), a widely acclaimed book on wild food and sustainable foraging. As a member of the Slow Food Alliance, she actively promotes food education through Slow Food Education and teaches courses on phytoalimurgy and sustainable agriculture.

Matarrese is both a forager and direct grower, publishing in scientific and popular journals. Her research focuses on medieval manuscripts in the Germanic area. She has gained national recognition as a specialist in phytoalimurgy and ethnobotany, appearing regularly on Italian television programs such as GEO Rai Tre and È sempre mezzogiorno (RAI Uno).

Her groundbreaking work on the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke 408) includes the books Voynich – Ricerca e Analisi and Beinecke 408: The Voynich Manuscript, where she presents philological and iconographic analysis, identifying the manuscript’s linguistic and cultural origins. Matarrese speaks seven languages and has a long-standing commitment to the study and dissemination of wild plants, traditional knowledge, and culinary innovation. Visit her Academia profile and her website.

is Associate Professor of Multicultural Communication at the School of Business, Woxsen University, Telangana, India, where he also serves as the Founding Director of both the Centre for Languages and Multicultural Communication and Asia’s first Galician Studies Centre, funded by the Government of Galicia, Spain. He chairs Language Policy Studies at Woxsen and has played a pioneering role in promoting multilingual research and cultural exchange across continents.

Nandi earned his PhD in Sociolinguistics as a James Watt Fellow at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Before joining Woxsen, he was a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Basque Country in Spain, leading a major project on the intergenerational transmission of Basque and Galician languages, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union’s Covid Recovery Fund. His international collaborations include roles as Senior Research Associate (Hon.) at the Sociolinguistic Seminar of the Royal Galician Language Academy (Spain), Visiting Researcher at the Leiden Centre for Linguistics (Netherlands), and Collaborator with the research centre affiliated to the UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage at the University of the Basque Country.

Nandi’s research explores language policy and literacy practices in multilingual settings, with a particular interest in how families and communities negotiate and sustain minority languages. His work has appeared in leading international journals in cultural studies and applied linguistics, and he has contributed to editorial work as Book Reviews Editor for the journal Sociolinguistic Studies (Equinox Publishing, UK) between 2021 and 2024. He has also edited and authored studies on family language policy, sociolinguistic citizenship, and community language support, with a special focus on the dynamics of language transmission in urban and transnational contexts. Visit his Academia profile.

has served as Full Professor of Media History and Theory at the University of Turin, where he has played a leading role in the development of media studies. He has authored more than two hundred scholarly publications focusing on history, society, and media, establishing himself as a major figure in the field. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, reflecting his strong international academic profile.

Among his most significant publications are Mediastoria (net, Milan, 2002); Enciclopedia della radio (Garzanti, Milan, 2003, with B. Scaramucci); Luci del teleschermo. Televisione e cultura in Italia (with Maria T. Di Marco, Electa, Milan, 2004); Le onde del futuro. Presente e tendenze della radio in Italia (with G. Cordoni and N. Verna, Costa & Nolan, Milan, 2006); Il secolo dei media. Riti credenze abitudini (Il Saggiatore, Milan, 2009); Dal sesso al gioco (Express, Turin, 2012); and Miti a bassa intensità (Einaudi, Turin, 2019).

Ortoleva has undertaken teaching appointments and research residencies in major international academic centres, including Paris, Lisbon, and Bogotá, further consolidating his global academic engagement. Beyond academia, he is an experienced museum and exhibition curator. He was responsible for the Museum of the City of Catania and curated an exhibition on the history of television crime drama, demonstrating his long-standing commitment to public history and cultural dissemination. Visit his Academia profile.

is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English at the University of Delaware, where she teaches writing, world literature, and cinema, with a focus on developing critical thinking and cultural literacy. In addition to her academic role, she holds major professional and editorial positions, serving as Co-Treasurer of the Association of Adaptation Studies, Media Reviews Editor of the journal Adaptation, and Founding Editor of Adaptation Today. Her most recent edited volume, Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema, and Media, was published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series, marking a significant milestone in her scholarly career.

She completed her PhD at the University of Delaware, with a dissertation entitled Politics of Transnational Film Remakes: Turkish and German National Cinemas. Her doctoral research examines how socio-political and economic conditions shape transnational, cross-border exchanges between texts, cultures, and media industries. By analysing remaking practices in national cinemas operating under differing political orthodoxies, her work challenges conventional definitions of the “transnational” and proposes a more inclusive and diversified theoretical framework that moves beyond nation-centred paradigms.

Her academic training began with a BA in English Language and Literature and a Pedagogical Proficiency Certificate in ESL Teaching from Istanbul University. She subsequently completed an MA in British Cultural Studies at Hacettepe University, where her thesis, A Bakhtinian Analysis of Robinsonades: Literary and Cinematic Adaptations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, marked her early engagement with adaptation theory, intertextuality, and cross-media narrative practices. Visit her Academia profile.

is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow (Special Mention “Attraction of Talent”) at the University of Granada, where he specialises in medieval English language and literature, with a particular emphasis on Old English poetry. His current research project, Continental Sources of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, is funded by the State Research Agency of Spain (AEI) with a €120,000 grant in addition to his salary.

Prior to his appointment in Granada, Pascual held several posts at the University of Oxford, including Stipendiary Lecturer in English at New College, Lecturer in Old and Middle English at Magdalen College, and Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at both the Faculty of English and Pembroke College. He also served as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the ERC-funded project CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.

Pascual received his PhD from the University of Granada in 2014, with a dissertation on the dating and textual criticism of Beowulf, which subsequently led to a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He is co-editor of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), contributor to The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014), and author of numerous articles published in journals such as Medium Ævum, English Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Studia Neophilologica, Notes and Queries, and ANQ, as well as a regular contributor to The Year’s Work in English Studies.

His research has been recognised with several awards, including the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2013-2014) and the “Excellence in Knowledge” Research Award of Grupo Caja Rural (2017). Visit his Academia profile.

is a PhD candidate in the Radio, Television and Cinema programme at the Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University, where he conducts research in film and media studies. His academic path is notably international, spanning Italy, Turkey, and Mexico, and centres on cinema, television, and new media cultures.

He holds a Master’s degree in Film, Television and Multimedia Production from Università degli Studi Roma Tre, graduating cum laude, with a thesis entitled Il Cinema Mondiale nello sguardo degli storici di vari continenti. He previously completed a BA in DAMS (Visual Arts, Music and Performing Arts) at the same university, focusing on LGBTQ cinema circulation and reception, and later obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Training from the University of Bologna. His education also includes study periods at Kadir Has University and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Alongside his academic work, Petrillo has gained professional experience in audiovisual and cultural production, working as a Production Assistant and Graphic Designer at Caucaso Factory and collaborating with international cultural and institutional organisations in Istanbul. He is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and the Consulta Universitaria del Cinema (CUC) and works professionally in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish. Visit his Academia website 

is an Associate Scholar in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, internationally recognised for her expertise in Islamic cartography and its connections with Ottoman, European, and other global mapping traditions. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, and educated at Dartmouth and Columbia, she has devoted over thirty years to investigating pre-modern maps, especially those found in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts. Her research has resulted in a unique repository of more than 3,000 Islamic maps, many previously unpublished.

Her award-winning monograph, Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (University of Chicago Press, 2016), offers a comprehensive study of the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitāb al-Masālik wa al-Mamālik) and earned the Choice Outstanding Academic Title distinction in 2017. Pinto’s scholarship examines iconography, patronage, and historical context, revealing how cartographic images shaped perceptions of the Muslim world and its boundaries.

She has published extensively on the cartographic imagination of the Mediterranean, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib, as well as on Islamo-Christian cartographic exchanges. Her current projects include further monographs on these themes and a focused study on what defines “Islamic” elements in Islamicate maps. Pinto is also active in Digital Humanities and Spatial Studies, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

Her teaching portfolio spans Islamic and Ottoman history, Mediterranean encounters, and map history at institutions such as Gettysburg College and the American University of Beirut. Pinto regularly serves as a peer reviewer for scholarly journals and has received major research grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Visit her Academia profile. 

is Professor Emerita of History and Multidisciplinary Studies at Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada), and an internationally recognised scholar in the medieval history of ideas, science, and technology. Her research focuses on the history of astronomy, the intellectual contributions of medieval thinkers such as Albertus Magnus and Henry of Ghent, and the development of academic disciplines in the Middle Ages. Her book, Medieval Thought (Blackwell, 1992), offers a rethinking of medieval intellectual history through the lens of religious and philosophical ideas. She is also co-author of Verification in Economics and History: A Sequel to ‘Scientifization’ (Routledge, 2011), and has published numerous articles in journals including History of Universities, International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, Indian Journal of Applied Economics, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal for the History of Astronomy, and Renaissance and Reformation.

Currently, she is working independently and with select university students on ongoing research projects and conference participation. Her recent work includes a forthcoming chapter in Medieval Borders and the Environment (5th–16th Centuries): Nature, Landscapes, and Cultures, edited by Elisa Ramazzina and accepted by De Gruyter MIP. This chapter forms the basis for her seminar at Entangled Histories on June 17. Additional research interests include studies on lunar naked-eye observations across different cultures (building on her earlier work in medieval astronomy), and an analysis of international trade regulations in the agro-industry and their impact on developing economies (a continuation of her previous research on Bayer AG).

In addition to serving as Director of the Journal of Income Distribution, she is President of the International Albertus Magnus Society and Publisher at Ad Libros Publications Inc. in New York. Visit her ORCID profile.

is internationally recognised for her expertise in the study of magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, and shamanism. Since 2016, she has been based at Leeds Trinity University, following a teaching career that has taken her to several universities around the world. With a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in philosophy, she earned her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Leeds in 2021, focusing on Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism, a work later published by Brill.

Dr Puca’s scholarly output includes numerous peer-reviewed articles and the co-editorship of Pagan Religions in Five Minutes for Equinox. Committed to making academic research accessible to a wider audience, she bridges the gap between academia and practitioner communities through her YouTube channel and social media platforms, collectively known as Angela’s Symposium.

For further information about her work, visit her website and her Academia profile.

is Research Fellow at the University of Insubria, Italy. She holds a PhD in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (specialising in Germanic Philology - Old English Language and Literature) from the University of Pavia. Her research is fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging philology, medical humanities, and cultural history, with particular expertise in border studies and monster studies. She has published widely on medical humanities, the history of balneotherapy and water cures, and the role of aquatic environments in medieval and early modern medical thought. Her scholarship encompasses not only Old and Middle English but also Old and Middle High German, Anglo-Latin, and Medieval Italian literature. She has held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University Belfast and collaborated on major digital humanities projects at the University of Oxford. Her work integrates the study of language and literature with broader questions in cultural history and the medical humanities. Visit her Academia profile.

is a lecturer in Late Medieval Literature at Queen’s University Belfast, where she also works as a Research Assistant in the School of Arts, English and Languages. She recently completed a year-long HEA North-South Research Programme, ‘Ireland’s Border Culture: Literature, Arts, and Policy’, in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin. Reid’s research spans contemporary philosophy and medieval studies, with particular interests in medieval literature and art, spatial thresholds, and practices of visibility. She is a cultural historian and translator, and serves as an editor for the international philosophy journal Logoi.ph.

Recent publications include Just in Time: Theorising the Contemporary (Mimesis, 2023), Pained Screams from the Camps (De Gruyter, 2024), and Mind the Gap: Borders, Limits and Frontiers (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025). Visit her ORCID profile. 

is a faculty member in the Department of English and German at the University of Granada. She earned her PhD from the University of Sunderland in 2014 and has since held teaching positions at universities in Iran, Spain, and Japan, including the University of Kerman, the University of Jaén, and the University of Tokyo.

Her research explores the intersections of literature, culture, and the environment, with a particular emphasis on Irish writers such as W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, James Joyce, Anna Liddiard, and Samuel Beckett. In 2023, she published her monograph, From Landscapes to Cityscapes: Towards a Poetics of Dwelling in Modern Irish Verse, with Peter Lang. Visit her Academia profile. 

is a research fellow in Theoretical Philosophy and holds a PhD in Methodologies of Philosophy from the University of Messina. Her work spans contemporary philosophy and medieval studies, with a particular focus on German and French 20th-century thought. Surace’s research explores Martin Heidegger’s ontology of life and its Lutheran roots, Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and its ethical-political implications, geo-philosophy and the question of human habitation, and Judith Butler’s social ontology. She writes on political ontology, ethics, and theories of immunity.

Her publications include L’inquietudine dell’esistenza: Le radici luterane dell’ontologia della vita di Martin Heidegger (Mimesis, 2014), Soggetti precari. L’ontologia sociale di Judith Butler (Mimesis, 2023), and contributions to Schegge messianiche: Filosofia, Religione, Politica (Mimesis, 2017). She is editor of Anacronie. L’inattualità del contemporaneo (Mimesis, 2022), and co-editor of Just in time / Giusto in tempo. Theorising the Contemporary / Pensare il contemporaneo (Mimesis International, 2023), Pained Screams from Camps (De Gruyter, 2024), and Nietzsche today/Nietzsche oggi (Logoi.ph. Rivista di filosofia, no. 22, 2023). She is also co-editor of Mind the Gap: Borders, Limits and Frontiers. Collected Essays and Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from a ‘Northern Ireland’ Prison Ship (De Gruyter, 2025). Visit her ORCID profile.