Ilgım Veryeri Alaca is a faculty member at Koç University, Department of Media and Visual Arts. She earned her MFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and PhD from Hacettepe University. Her articles appeared in Bookbird, Leonardo, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction and International Journal of Education through Art. She contributed to The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks and The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education. She presented in conferences such as IRSCL, IBBY, NordiCHI and IDC (International Conference on Interaction Design and Children). She edited a special issue on materiality of picturebooks in Libri & Liberi Journal in 2019.