Biography
Ana Kechan (1978) was born in Tetovo, where she completed her primary and part of her secondary education. She completed the latter in the United States, graduating with honors. She got her BA in English Language and Literature, her MA in English Literature and her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia. She is also a holder of both the Certificate and Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA and DELTA) from Cambridge University and is a teacher trainer approved by Cambridge Assessment English. She is the Head of the CELTA centre at International Balkan University, where she works as a full professor of English, teaching subjects ranging from literature to ELT methodology. Her interests include the areas of literary theory and criticism, literary hermeneutics, the psychological in literature, as well as the training of English teachers. Finally, she is a certified Gestalt counsellor, trying to find ways to put to practice the knowledge of psychology to help teachers grow. She is the author of the following books: The Dark Side of Otherness (2019), Jungian Hermeneutic Model (2021), Day, Night (2021), Dusk, Dawn (2021), Tolkienian Essays (2022) and Reimagining the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (as editor, 2022).
