Nadia Nurhussein
Nadia Nurhussein | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English language, Africana studies |
| Sub-discipline | African-American literature, poetics |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Boston Johns Hopkins University |
Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974) is an American academic and author specialized in African-American literature, culture, and poetics. She is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Education
[edit]Nurhussein completed a Ph.D. in English at University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Beinecke Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies.[1]
Career
[edit]Nurhussein taught English at Mount Holyoke College from 2004 to 2005. She was a member of the faculty at University of Massachusetts Boston where she taught English from 2005 to 2016.[1] In 2017, Nurhussein joined the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of English and Africana studies.[2] She specializes in African-American literature, culture, and poetics.[1]
Selected works
[edit]- Nurhussein, Nadia (2013). Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1216-5.[3]
- Nurhussein, Nadia (2019). Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-19096-9.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Nadia Nurhussein". Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ "The English Department Welcomes Prof. Nadia Nurhussein". Johns Hopkins University. January 20, 2017. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ Reviews of Rhetorics of Literacy:
- Benson, Alex (2015). "Review" (PDF). ALH Online Review. Series IV.
- Farrar, Stephanie (2014-11-30). "Review". Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 31 (2): 340–342. ISSN 1534-0643.
- Logan, April C. (2015). "Review". American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography. 25 (1): 98–101. doi:10.1353/amp.2015.0012. ISSN 1548-4238. S2CID 144727391.
- ^ Christian, M. (April 2020). "Review". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 57 (8): 910.
External links
[edit]- Nadia Nurhussein's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- 1974 births
- African-American women academics
- American women academics
- 21st-century African-American academics
- 21st-century American academics
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- 21st-century American women writers
- African-American women writers
- African-American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Living people
- 21st-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American academics
- 20th-century American academics
- 20th-century African-American women