Ella Shohat

Professor Ella Shohat teaches at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University.

Biography[]

She has lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with post/colonial and transnational approaches to Cultural studies. On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Pluto Press, 2017; recipient of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award in the “Memoir Category”); Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989; New Updated Edition with a new Postscript Chapter, I.B. Tauris, 2010); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998); Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited, The University of Minnesota Press, 1997); Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (co-edited, The University of Michigan Press, 2013; Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction category for the 2014 Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum); And coauthor with Robert Stam of Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge, 1994; Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994; 2nd edition with a new Postscript Chapter, 2014); Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2007); Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (NYU Press, 2012); and Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).

She has coedited several special issues of Social Text: “911-A Public Emergency?” (2002); “Palestine in a Transnational Context” (2003); “Corruption in Corporate Culture” (2003); and “Edward Said: A Memorial Issue” (2006). Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including: French, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and Turkish.

Shohat has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including: Social Text; Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

She is a recipient of such fellowships as Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Lectureship / Research, and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, where she also taught at The School of Criticism and Theory.^[1]

Publications[]

Books[]

• On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat. London, Pluto Press, 2017. Winner of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award).^[2][3]
• Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (coedited with E. Alsultany), The University of Michigan Press, 2013. Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction category for the Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum.^[4]
• Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.^[5]
• Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).^[6]
• Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives: les juifs orientaux en Israel (first published in 1988, with a new introduction, Paris; La Fabrique Editions, 2006).
• Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006).^[7]
• Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).^[8]
• Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).^[9]
• Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (Co-edited with McClintock, Anne & Amir Mufti), University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
• Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (coauthored with Robert Stam, 1994), 20th Anniversary 2nd Edition, with a new Afterward Chapter, “Thinking about Unthinking: Twenty Years After” (1-73 pp.) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.^[10]
• Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.^[11]

Articles[]

• “The Invention of Judeo-Arabic,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 153–200.
• Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns, Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, and Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pp. 20–58.^[12]
• “The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging,” Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pp. 94–149.
• The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient. In Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, edited by Awam Amkpa. Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016.^[13]
• “A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014. ^[14]
• “The Question of Judeo-Arabic,” Opening Essay, Arab Studies Journal, 23:1 (Fall 2015), pp 14-76.
• The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism'. In Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, edited by Ella Habiba Shohat and Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.^[15]
• “Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy” (with R. Stam), Special focus, “Comparison,” New Literary History, 40: 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 473-499.
• “The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew,” (a special issue on Edward Said, edited by Rashid Khalidi,) Journal of Palestine Studies, XXXIII, no. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 55-75.
• "Notes on the" Post-Colonial"." Social text 31/32 (1992): 99-113.
• Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew, Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5 (Fall Winter, 1992). Segments from Ella Shohat’s essay are included in Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination (1992).^[16]
• "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims." Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35.

Edited special issues[]

• “Edward Said: A Memorial Issue” (coedited with Patrick Deer and Gyan Prakash), Social Text 87 (Summer 2006) pp. 1–144.
• “Corruption in Corporate Culture” (coedited with Randy Martin), Social Text 77 (Winter 2003) pp. 1–153
• “Palestine in a Transnational Context” (coedited with Timothy Mitchell & Gyan Prakash), Social Text 75 (Summer 2003) pp. 1–162
• “911-A Public Emergency?” (co-edited with Brent Edwards, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten), Social Text 72 (Fall 2002), pp. 1–199

Film participation and advising[]

• Samir, Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection Switzerland 2002. Documentary. (The film is the Winner of Best Documentary, Swiss Film Prize; And of the Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival.^[17]
• Contributor to script and voice over reading for Elia Suleiman's film Homage by Assassination (28 min) 1992.

Elia Suleiman's film incorporates a few segments from Shohat's article, written during the 1990-91 Gulf War. Shohat & Suleiman rewrote the segments as a letter from Ella Habiba Shohat to her friend Elia Suleiman. As Suleiman receives the faxed letter, Shohat is heard in a voice-over reading from "Reflections of an Arab-Jew."^[18]

References[]

External links[]

• Professor Ella Shohat, faculty page, Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University