Gül Deniz Demirel Aydemir is a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant of Turkish at Yale. She studied English language teaching at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She received her M.A. on English Literature from the same university. She has been teaching English and Academic Writing at Hacettepe University since 2010, where she also worked as an administrative and academic coordinator, and a test developer. After she became certified to teach Turkish as a foreign language in 2015, she started to teach Turkish as well. She is currently doing her Ph.D. on teaching Turkish as a foreign language.