Graduating from Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature in 1996, Prof. Dr. Arda Arikan completed his Ph.D. at Penn State University’s Science, Technology, and Society program in 2002 with his dissertation on the professional development of foreign language instructors from a Postmodern narrative study perspective. He is currently employed at Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature. He continues his studies as a generalist by reading and writing on education, literature, and culture.