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 diasporic, postcolonial, and transnational approaches to Cultural studies. Over the past four decades she has also been writing on Mizrahi/Arab-Jewish representation and culture. Her award winning publications include: Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les figures juives arabes (Lux Éditeur, 2021), On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Pluto Press, 2017); 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); Zikhronot Asurim (Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001); 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); And coauthor with Robert Stam of Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge, 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). Shohat's writings have received awards such as the Katherine Kovacs Singer Book Award (1994), Arab American Book Award (2014) and Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award (2017). Her work has also been translated into diverse languages, including: French, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese.
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] She was awarded the Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) for the academic year of 2020-2021.[2]
Publications
Books
- Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, Essays selected and introduced by Joelle Marelli & Tal Dor, and translated into French by Marelli, Lux Éditeur, Canada, 2021.
- 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).[3][4]
- 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.[5]
- Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.[6]
- Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).[7]
- 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).[8]
- Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).[9]
- Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).[10]
- Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).[11]
- 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.[12]
- 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.[13]
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.[14]
- “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.[15]
- “A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014. [16]
- “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.[17]
- “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).[18]
- "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
Participation in Films
- 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.[19]
- Interview for a DVD Documentaries on Rambo III, Afghanistan: Land of Crisis and Guts and Glory, produced by Laura Nix, Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002.
- Commentary/Interviewee, Fresh Blood, Video Essay by b.h. Yael, Canada, 1996.[20]
- 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."[21]
References
- "Professor Ella Shohat, Faculty page, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University".
- "Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Ella Shohat, Ph.D." Ella Shohat, Ph.D. (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements".
- https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html
- Between the Middle East and the Americas.
- "Race in Translation".
- "Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism".
- https://www.dukeupress.edu/taboo-memories-diasporic-voices
- "Book Details".
- https://www.academia.edu/34657907/Zikhronot_Asurim_Hebrew_Forbidden_Reminiscences_Bimat_Kedem_LeSifrut_with_the_Alternative_Information_Center_pp_1_410_Hebrew_2001_Digital_Publication_El_Ray_Agency_and_Booxilla_2017_. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - "Talking Visions | the MIT Press".
- "Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media".
- "Israeli Cinema: East / West and the Politics of Representation". 2012-03-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- Shohat, Ella. ""Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews" in Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadim, eds., New York, NYU Press, 2016, pp. 20-58". Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
- Shohat, Ella. ""The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient" in Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, Awam Amkpa, ed., Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016, pp 95-115". Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - جدلية, Jadaliyya-. "A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- Shohat, Ella. ""The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism" in Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, Ella Habiba Shohat, Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013, pp. 42-62". Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - Shohat, Ella. ""Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," (Published simultaneously in Emergences) Movement Research 5 (Fall 1991/Winter 1992), p. 8". Movement Research: Performance Journal.
- https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk
- http://www.bhyael.ca/fresh-blood. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - Elia Suleiman - Homage by assassination. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
External links
- Professor Ella Shohat, faculty page, Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
- https://nyu.academia.edu/EllaShohat, Academia page.