Nilgün Anadolu-Okur

Expertise

Methodology and Theory; African American History and Discourse Analysis; Literary Criticism, Women's Writing

Biography

Dr. Nilgun Anadolu-Okur is the Presidential Professor (tenured) of Africology at Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Africology, American Studies, Comparative Literature and Women’s Writing. She is the chair of Temple University’s Faculty Senate Status of Women Committee, and serves as an affiliated faculty at Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. She teaches courses on race, racial attitudes, theory and methodology. She has published books and journal articles on African American history, Civil War era, the Underground Railroad, women’s literature, African American literature and Comparative Literature. Her articles on women, and mothering in antiquity have been published in peer reviewed journals. Her published books are:

Contemporary African American Theater : Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (1997); Essays Interpreting the Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk: The Turkish Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2009); Women, Islam and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections and Centered Approaches to Life, Society and Women's Rights in Muslim Countries (2009); Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851 (2018).

Dr. Okur has received distinguished awards, including two International Fulbright awards; Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Award; J. Howard Wert American Heritage Award as well as the Commonwealth Speaker Award from Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC). She currently teaches and directs the graduate program in the Africology and African American Studies Department at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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