Ezgi Altınöz is an instructor at OSTİM Technical University. She completed her undergraduate studies in English Language and Literature at Bilkent University with a full scholarship in 2020 and her master’s degree in Media and Visual Studies at the same university with a full scholarship in 2022. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies with a full scholarship in Communication at İstanbul Bilgi University. Altınöz began her academic career as a teaching assistant at Bilkent University between 2021 and 2022 and has been serving as an instructor at OSTİM Technical University School of Foreign Languages since 2022. She held the position of vice head of the Department of Foreign Languages from 2022 to 2023 and has been the Vice Director of the School of Foreign Languages since 2023. She is also a member of the IPCC Conference organizing committee. She completed her master’s thesis with the title “Exploring the Everyday Cohabitations of Humans and Urban Animals through the Ecodocumentaries of Istanbul.” Additionally, Altınöz presented a paper titled "Thinking Non-Human Vision and Multispecies Response-Abilty through Situated Knowledges" at an international conference. Her research interests include environmental humanities, critical animal studies, human-animal relations, media studies, and cultural studies.
