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Education

B.A, Bar Ilian University, Israel
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University

Biography

Ella Shohat is Professor at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies, and also affiliated with the department of Comparative Literature. She has lectured and published extensively on issues having to with Eurocentrism, post/colonialism and transnatioanlism as well as with orientalism and the representation of the Middle East, including the question of Arab-Jews. Her books include Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (U. of Texas Press, a new edition is forthcoming from I.B. Tauris) Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT Press & the New Museum,) Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (co-edited, Rutgers University Press, and with Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge; winner of the Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Book Award) and more recently  Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge). Shohat and Stam are currently in the final stages of writing The Culture Wars in Translation (NYU press) and Shohat is also currently co-editing a book on the cultural politics of Middle Eastern diasporas throughout the Americas (University of Michigan Press.) Her book Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices  has recently been published by Duke University Press. A recipient of Rockefeller fellowship, she has served on the editorial board of several journals, including Social Text, Critique and Meridians. Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Polish, Italian, and Turkish. During the past year she taught at Cornell’s School of Theory & Criticism, and was awarded a senior fellowship at ICAS-- the International Center for Advance Studies, NYU.

 

Author

Talking Visions: Multiculturalism in a Transnational Age
Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives
(co-edited with A. McClintock & A. Mufti);
Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, (co-authored with R. Stam);
Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation

Professor, Department of Media Culture, CUNY College of Staten Island, 1988-2001
Professor, Film Studies/ Theatre Department and Women's Studies Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 1992-2001

Affiliations

Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
The Society for Cinema Studies
Middle East Studies Association