Nada Elia

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Core Faculty, B.A. in Liberal Studies (completion program)

Summary of Education and Relevant Experience

Nada EliaB.A., Beirut University College; M.A., American University of Beirut; Ph.D., Purdue University.
After a three-year stint as a war journalist, Nada Elia has taught at Purdue University, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts, Brown University and most recently Washington State University. Elia is currently at work on a second book on women's activism in the twenty-first century. In 2000 she was guest editor for a special issue of Radical Philosophy Review, focusing on the Second Intifada, and last year she contributed two chapters to a collection on Cultural Shaping of Violence (Purdue University Press, 2004). She is also a contributor to various edited collections in the Blackwell Critical Reader series. Her teaching interests include narratives of resistance, the impact of globalization on women, literature of displacement, social movements, and gender studies and the politics of translation.

Affiliations

  • President-elect, Association of Middle East Women's Studies
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
  • Member, National Steering Collective of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
  • Founding Member, Radical Arab Women's Activist Network
  • Founding Member, National Council of Arab Americans
  • Member, Defense of Civil Rights in Academia project

Publications

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Cambridge: South End Press, 2007. (View it.)

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Cambridge: South End Press, 2006. (View it.)

Elia, N., "The Burden of Representation: When Palestinians Speak Out," in MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, special issue on Gender, Nation, and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives, ed. by Rabab Abdulhadi, Nadine Naber and Evelyn Alsultany. Spring 2005. 58-70.

Elia, N., "Liberations, De-Liberations, and Stallings, or, Is the ‘Post-‘ Here Yet?" in Cultural Shaping of Violence: Victimization, Escalation, Response, ed. Myrdene Anderson, Purdue University Press, 2004, 199-204.

Elia, N., "Epistemic Violence, Smear Campaigns, and Hit-Lists: Disappearing the Palestininans," in Cultural Shaping of Violence: Victimization, Escalation, Response, ed. Myrdene Anderson, Purdue Universtiy Press, 2004, 187-192.

Elia, N., Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Writing. New York: Garland, 2001.

Elia, N., ed., The Second Intifada. Special issue of Radical Philosophy Review: A Journal of Progressive Thought. 3/2 (2001).

On Interest Area

"I am particularly interested in activist resistance to institutionalized forms of violence and oppression. This involves a re-evaluation of what constitutes resistance, as well as a rethinking of the ultimately lethal impact of sanitizing such concepts as nationalism, gender roles, and various forms of hierarchical authority."

Contact Information

B.A. in Liberal Studies (completion program)
206-268-4412
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