Dr Can Yalcinkaya is an academic program manager at Macquarie University College, where he is the course authority for the Diploma of Arts Media and Communications, along with other Diploma and Undergraduate Certificate courses. He is a researcher, multidisciplinary artist, editor, curator, translator, and musician, whose work is placed at the intersection of scholarship, art and activism. He is a member of Centre for Media History and the Art-Ethnography Lab at Macquarie University. Along with Dr Safdar Ahmed, he founded the anti-racist Muslim metal band, Hazeen and performed in art venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cement Fondu. Hazeen was featured in an ABC Arts Documentary titled "You See Monsters" (dir. Tony Jackson, 2017). Most recently, Can participated in the world-renowned art exhibition Documenta in Germany in 2022 and was interviewed by Germany's national broadcaster 3SAT.

Key Research and Teaching Areas: transnational media, diaspora studies, film studies, critical and cultural theory, gender studies, multimodal storytelling, arts-based research, comics and graphic novels.