Nada Elia

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

Summary of Education and Relevant Experience

B.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 the author of Trances, Dances, and Vociferations:  Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and is currently at work on a second book, focusing on global activism for Palestinian human rights. Elia was guest editor for a special issue of Radical Philosophy Review, focusing on the Second Intifada, and co-editor of The Color of Violence:  the INCITE! Anthology, as well The Revolution Will Not Be Funded:  Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, which won the 2007 Gustavus Meyer Center Outstanding Book Award for Advancing Human Rights.  Elia is a prolific writer and widely published in scholarly journals, progressive activist magazines, and various online websites.  Her teaching interests include narratives of resistance, the impacts of globalization on marginalized communities, the literature of displacement and postcolonial diasporas, the politics of translation, global social movements, and gender studies.

Affiliations

• Past-President, Association of Middle East Women's Studies
• Member. AMEWS Advisory Board
• 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
• Member, National Organizing Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association

Sample 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., Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Writing. New York: Routledge, 2001. http://www.amazon.com/Trances-Dances-Vociferations-Resistance-Narratives/dp/0815338430/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1333574329&sr=8-3

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, homonationalism, gender roles, and various forms of hierarchical authority."

Contact Information

B.A. in Liberal Studies (completion program)
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