Ana Kechan, PhD is a professor of Anglo-American Literature at the International Balkan University in Skopje, North Macedonia. She is also a teacher trainer of teachers of English for the University of Cambridge (CELTA trainer) and a Gestalt counselor. Areas of interest include the relationship between psychology and literature, Jungian interpretation of literary works (and psychological hermeneutics in general), fantasy and the fantastic, folklore, as well as English teaching methodology. She is the author of the following books: The Dark Side of Otherness (2019), The Jungian Hermeneutic Method (2020), Day/Night (2021), Dusk/Dawn (2021) and Tolkienian Essays (2022).