Ella Habiba Shohat
Ella Habiba Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Her books include Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les Figures Juives Arabes; On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Recipient of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award); Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices; Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation; Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age; Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited); Between the Middle East and the Americas (co-edited, Honorable Mention, Arab-American Book Award); and with Robert Stam: Unthinking Eurocentrism (Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Book Award); Flagging Patriotism; Race in Translation; and Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media. Shohat has served on the editorial board of several journals, including Social Text, coediting special issues (“Palestine in a Transnational Context;” “Edward Said: A Memorial Issue;” and “911-A Public Emergency?”). She is a recipient of a number of fellowships, including: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; The Rockefeller Foundation; The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, where she also taught at The School of Criticism and Theory. Her writings have been translated into various languages, including: Arabic, Hebrew, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Turkish.