Prof. Simon C. Estok is a full professor and Senior Research Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea’s first and oldest university) and teaches literary theory, ecocriticism, and Shakespearean literature. He is editor of the A&HCI journal Neohelicon and is an elected member of The European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author “Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia” (2011) and “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” (2018), co-author or editor of “East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader” (2013), “International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism” (2013) and “Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecocritical Imagination” (2016). The book “The Ecophobia Hypothesis” was translated into Turkish by the Cappadocia University Press under the title of “Ekofobi Hipotezi” (2021). Prof. Estok has published extensively on ecocriticism and Shakespeare in such journals as PMLA, Mosaic, Configurations, English Studies in Canada, and others.

Prof. Serpil OPPERMANN is a Professor of Environmental Humanities and the director of Environmental Humanities Center at Cappadocia University. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1980, MA in 1982 and PhD in 1987 at Hacettepe University. Her current research focuses on the Anthropocene and the Blue Humanities.