Professor Ella Shohat teaches at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University. 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 ; 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 ; Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora ; And coauthor with Robert Stam of Unthinking Eurocentrism ; Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism ; Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic ; and Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media. She has also coedited several special issues of Social Text: “911-A Public Emergency?” ; “Palestine in a Transnational Context” ; “Corruption in Corporate Culture” ; and “Edward Said: A Memorial Issue”. 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.
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).
Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, 20th Anniversary 2nd Edition, with a new Afterward Chapter, “Thinking about Unthinking: Twenty Years After” London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.
Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.
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, Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, and Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pp. 20–58.
“The Question of Judeo-Arabic: 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.
“A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014.
“The Question of Judeo-Arabic,” Opening Essay, Arab Studies Journal, 23:1, 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.
“Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy”, Special focus, “Comparison,” New Literary History, 40: 3, pp. 473-499.
“The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew,”Journal of Palestine Studies, XXXIII, no. 3, pp. 55-75.
"Notes on the" Post-Colonial"." Social text 31/32 : 99-113.
Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew, Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5. Segments from Ella Shohat’s essay are included in Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination.
"Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims." Social Text 19/20 : 1-35.
Edited Special Issues
“Edward Said: A Memorial Issue”, Social Text 87 pp. 1–144.
“Corruption in Corporate Culture”, Social Text 77 pp. 1–153
“Palestine in a Transnational Context”, Social Text 75 pp. 1–162
“911-A Public Emergency?”, Social Text 72, pp. 1–199
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."
