Dr. Eda Ozyesilpinar

Biography

Eda Ozyesilpinar's research focuses on border and cultural rhetorics and investigates devaluation and dehumanization of rhetorics from and of non-Western cultures and their intersections with issues of ethics, identity, and social justice in visual-material culture, public spaces, and digital environments. Within the broader scope of her research, Ozyesilpinar performs rhetorical cartography and work with maps—in physical and digital forms—both as rhetorical-cultural texts and scientific-technical documents. Her work aims to explore ways to move beyond or away from the divisive force of borders/boundaries and explore meaningful ways to engage with non-Western voices, histories, and practices of meaning-making to humanize borders/boundaries. Her academic and creative work has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics, Kairos, Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change, and Immediacy.”