I studied Translation and Interpreting at Hacettepe University and later worked for feminist and LGBTQ civil society organizations in Ankara. In 2013, I started my teaching career as an Instructor of Academic English at Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus. In 2018, I moved to Munich to complete my MA degree in English Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, where I worked as a student assistant as well as an EFL teacher at a language school. My dissertation investigates language teacher agency in pre-service teachers' narrative identity constructions in a critical, identity-oriented language teacher education setting. Methodologically, I work with narrative inquiry.

Kocaman, C. & Yazan, B. (2025). Resisting monolingualism through critical autoethnographic narratives: Insights from two teacher education contexts. In K. Raza, O. Ustuk, & D. Reynolds (Eds.), Multilingual TESOL: De-constructing and re-constructing power ‘of’, ‘in’ and ‘for’ language classrooms. Springer. 

Yazan, B., Kocaman, C., & Lindahl, K. (2025). Critical Language Awareness in Language Teacher Education: How Can Critical Autoethnographic Narrative Help? In G. Park, Q. Charles, S. Tanghe, & M. Webb, Radical Inclusivity: Critical Language Awareness in the Language and Writing Classroom. Multilingual Matters.

Selvi, A.F., Kocaman, C. (2024). Introducing Criticality and Critical English Language Teacher Education: Tensions, Opportunities, and Possibilities. In A.F. Selvi, C. Kocaman (Eds.), International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury.

Selvi, A.F., Kocaman, C. (Eds.). (2024). International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury.

Kocaman, C., Selvi, A.F. (2021). Gender, Sexuality, and Language Teaching Materials: Why Materials Matter for Social Justice in the Language Classroom. Babylonia Multilingual Journal of Language Education, 1, 76–81.

Selvi, A.F., Kocaman, C. (2020). (Mis-/Under-) Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Locally Produced Instructional Materials. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 20(2), 118-133.