Nilgün Anadolu-Okur is an associate professor at Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts, and the director of African American Studies undergraduate program. Her publications include Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841-1851 (forthcoming August 2016); Essays Interpreting the Novels of Orhan Pamuk, the Winner of the Nobel Award in 2006; Women, Islam, and Globalization in the 21st Century, and Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller.
The majority of her research on discourse analysis in Anglophone literatures is published in peer reviewed national and international journals, in reference books, and encyclopedias, such as the Journal of Black Studies, Gender Issues, Journal of Global Initiatives, and Human and Society. She is the recipient of distinguished awards and honors, including two International Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Award, and the J. Howard Wert American Heritage Award. She has been a Commonwealth Speaker for Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC). She served as the Director of Comparative and World Literatures at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). She also served on the editorial board of JBS. In 2003 she established the “Annual Underground Railroad Conference,” at Temple University. She directed Temple’s Study Abroad Program in Istanbul, in 2005 and 2006. Currently she is the Chair of the Faculty Senate Status of Women Committee at her university. She is the editor of the Black Arts Review (BAR), and the DAAS Newsletter.

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