Özlem Berk Albachten is professor of Translation Studies at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. She has published widely on Turkish translation history and is the author of Translation and Westernization in Turkey: from the 1840s to the 1980s (2004) and Kuramlar Isiginda Açiklamali Çeviribilim Terimcesi (2005 - Translation Terminology in Light of Theories).

S¿ehnaz Tahir Gürc¿ag¿lar is professor of translation studies and teaches at the graduate programs at Glendon College, York University and Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. Her main fields of interest are translation history, ideology and translation and periodical studies. She is the author of The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 (2008).