Zehra Haliloğlu is a PhD candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin, working on a dissertation project in Turkish Shakespeare at the English Literature and Culture department. She holds a BA in English Literature from Boğaziçi University, an MA in Civilization Studies with a thesis titled "Mediterranean Empires, Mobility and Multiculturalism in Shakespeare" from Ibn Haldun University and another MA in Intercultural Communication with a thesis on Turkish Shadow Theatre from Shanghai Theatre Academy. Her research areas include intercultural theatre, global Shakespeare, dramatic literature, Asian civilizations and literatures, European theatre, and multiculturalism in literature. Haliloğlu also works as the Instructional Lead at Bayaan Academy in the USA.