Neslihan Albay completed her undergraduate study in the department of English Language and Literature in 2008. Then she went to the UK for a postgraduate study. She got her master’s degree in Victorian Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leicester in 2010. She completed her master’s thesis on “forms of cultural exchange and appropriation in Victorian burlesques of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. After returning to Turkey, she started to work as an English instructor in the prep schools of various private universities. She completed her Ph.D. study on the cultural nationalist and anti-imperialist roles of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory as the literary configurations of nation-state identity at Istanbul University in 2018. She is married and has a son. Currently she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Doğuş University. Her research interests are comparative literature, world literature, feminist literary theories, postcolonial literature, exile, and migration.