Nada Elia
Associate Professor
About
Nada Elia is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, specializing in transnational, decolonial, and gender struggles, with a focus on Arab America and Palestine.
Nada Elia has published numerous editorials about Palestine, gender, activism, and transnational struggles in Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab, among other independent media websites.
A scholar-activist, Elia is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine, Palestine: Un feminism de liberation, as well as Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women’s Narratives, and is currently completing a third single-authored Book, “Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms.” Her books, in French and English, have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Catalan.
She has co-edited the Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, as well as the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.