Her father was the owner of a local newspaper called "Target" and was interested in Ottoman history as well as literature.
During her student years, she was in pursuit of folk literature and Central Asian aesthetics.
She received encouragement and support from her teacher Orhan Okay in the development of both her artistic and academic personality.
After working as a high school teacher for four years, she entered Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Education Faculty Turkish Language and Literature Education Department as a lecturer (1985).
She completed her doctorate on Technical Analysis of Halide Edib Adıvar's Novels, which she continued under the direction of Orhan Okay, in 1987.
Nazan Bekiroğlu, who has been working as a faculty member in the Turkish education department opened at Karadeniz Technical University since 1998, became a professor on May 4, 2001.