Dr. Züleyha Çolak
Züleyha Çolak is a lecturer and coordinator of the Turkish and Ottoman language program at Columbia University. She worked at Indiana University Bloomington and at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis in Global Studies, the Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Studies between 2005-2010. She received her B. A. in Arabic Language and Literature from Istanbul University, Turkey (1998), and holds two master’s degrees, in comparative literature in Arabic Literature from Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (2000), and in Central Eurasian Studies/Ottoman and Modern Turkish studies from Indiana University (2003). Her Ph.D. dissertation from Indiana University is titled “Romancing the Female Role in Ottoman Joseph and Zulaykha Mesnevīs: Taşlıcalı Yaḥyā’s Yūsuf u Zelīhā.” She worked as a Certified Proficiency Tester for Turkish for ACTFL (American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages) ACTFL/ILR OPI Qualified Tester and Mentor in 2004-2014 in addition to working as an external reviewer for DLI /DLPT5 for Reading and Listening Test Materials. She has been teaching several courses on Modern Turkish and Ottoman (Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Turkish and Ottoman), Romance in Islamicate Literature, Islam and Woman, Theory of Novel and Reading Orhan Pamuk. Teaching has always been her passion and the Deep Approach has proved itself tremendously in her teaching.
She co-edited and co-translated Pickwick. Feminine Chicanery, with Damian Harris-Hernandez and Shuntu Kuang. Pickwick. Ottoman Reader
Züleyha Çolak is a lecturer and coordinator of the Turkish and Ottoman language program at Columbia University. She worked at Indiana University Bloomington and at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis in Global Studies, the Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Studies between 2005-2010. She received her B. A. in Arabic Language and Literature from Istanbul University, Turkey (1998), and holds two master’s degrees, in comparative literature in Arabic Literature from Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey (2000), and in Central Eurasian Studies/Ottoman and Modern Turkish studies from Indiana University (2003). Her Ph.D. dissertation from Indiana University is titled “Romancing the Female Role in Ottoman Joseph and Zulaykha Mesnevīs: Taşlıcalı Yaḥyā’s Yūsuf u Zelīhā.” She worked as a Certified Proficiency Tester for Turkish for ACTFL (American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages) ACTFL/ILR OPI Qualified Tester and Mentor in 2004-2014 in addition to working as an external reviewer for DLI /DLPT5 for Reading and Listening Test Materials. She has been teaching several courses on Modern Turkish and Ottoman (Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Turkish and Ottoman), Romance in Islamicate Literature, Islam and Woman, Theory of Novel and Reading Orhan Pamuk. Teaching has always been her passion and the Deep Approach has proved itself tremendously in her teaching.
She co-edited and co-translated Pickwick. Feminine Chicanery, with Damian Harris-Hernandez and Shuntu Kuang. Pickwick. Ottoman Reader