Ana Kechan, PhD, is a full professor at the International Balkan University in Skopje, North Macedonia. She has a BA in English Language and Literature, an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Literary Hermeneutics. She has the CELTA and DELTA from the University of Cambridge and is a CELTA trainer for teachers of English, as well as 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). She is the editor of Reimagining the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2022).