Sultan Yertay - PhD (Order No. 701 of 2018 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan), a member of the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 2018-2023 acting associate professor at the Faculty of Journalism of Al-Farabi KazNU. 2021-2022 research internship at George Washington University, USA within the framework of the "Bolashak" program. Program name: Leadership in higher education management. 2021-2022 Head of the Abai Center opened at George Washington University with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the United States of America. 2019-2021 Deputy General Director of Auezov Institute of Literature and Art. In 2011 he achieved Bachelor in "Philology: Kazakh language" and in 2013 successfully graduated the Master degree in "Philology: Literature" at Al-Farabi University. In 2014-2017 studied in doctoral studies within the framework of the joint educational program "Integration of Science and Education" between M.O. Auezov Institute of Literatur e and Art and Al-Farabi University with a degree in "6D021400 - Literary Studies". In 2018 he successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Transformation of the Modern Novel" based on a comparative analysis of modern English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Kazakh novels. He is in an author of several articles, published in scientific journals included to the international databases as Scopus and WOS and in scientific journals recommended by MSHE RK; 5 collective monographs; copyright certificate for a textbook; certificates of accreditation as a subject of scientific and scientific and technical activities. H-index: 2 (2021). He passed scientific internships at the Earth Institute of Columbia University and UN Sustainable Development Program (2012, USA), Academic mobility program at University of Cadiz (2013, Spain), Scientific research on PhD thesis at University of Granada (2016, Spain). Research areas: genre transformation of the modern novel, mathematical modeling of the hybrid novel chronotope, genre transformation of modern journalism, data journalism, higher education and science management, new trends and trends in international journalism. Winner of the scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for gifted young scientists (2018), scholarship holder of the international program "Bolashak" (2021).