Prof. Dr. Ayhan KAHRAMAN (Dean)

 Prof. Dr. Ayhan Kahraman was born in Kütahya in 1968. He completed his primary education in Bremerhaven, Germany, and his secondary education in Kütahya. He received his bachelor's degree in English Language Education from Istanbul University in 1992 and began working as a lecturer at Dumlupınar University in 1993. He completed his doctoral studies at Hacettepe University in 2009 and was appointed as an Assistant Professor to the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kütahya Dumlupınar University, in the same year. Prof. Dr. Kahraman, who became an Associate Professor in 2016 and a Professor in 2021, has numerous academic publications both domestically and internationally. Most recently, in line with the 2023 education vision framework, he edited the book titled *Foreign Language Education in Turkish History: Problems and Suggestions for Improvement*. Throughout his career, Prof. Dr. Kahraman has participated in numerous academic events—most notably Foreign Language Education Congresses—as a speaker and has delivered seminars at conferences in various locations, including the University of Canterbury (UK), Barcelona (Spain), and Almaty (Kazakhstan).

Prof. Dr. Ayhan Kahraman served as the Director of the Foreign Languages ​​Application and Research Center (2003–2006), Head of the Foreign Languages ​​Department (2004–2006), a member of the Faculty Administrative Board (2017–2021), and both the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences and a member of the Senate (2017–2019). He has been serving as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature since 2011.

Prof. Dr. Ayhan Kahraman speaks English and German, as well as French at a basic level; he is married and a father of two.