Nadia Ellis
Associate Professor452 Wheeler HallFall 2022 Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:20-4:00pm; sign up via link in bio
Specialties
?AtlanticCaribbean
Gender & Sexuality Studies
African American
Cultural Studies
Professional Statement
Nadia Ellis?specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.Her book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire?and diasporic aesthetics. It is a project built from a long-standing interest in following trajectories of literary?cultures from the Caribbean to Britain to the United States. The work also developed through a?preoccupation?with several intersections, including those between queerness and diaspora,?imperial identification and colonial resistance,?performance and theory.
Published essays explore her work on?queer and black performance, sexuality and the archive, and the diasporic city--work which has been supported by fellowships and grants from such research bodies?as the AAUW, the SSRC, and UC Berkeley's Hellman Fund and Townsend Center for the Humanities. She teaches courses on a range of topics within her fields and regularly offers classes connecting literary cultures to questions of?the city, migration, and sexuality and gender. She has received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award (2020) and the American Cultures Innovation in Teaching Award?(2016). ?
The geographies?of Ellis's training mirror?(and have certainly informed) her research interests: she received her PhD in English from Princeton; her M.Phil. in English from Oxford, and her B.A. in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies (Mona) Jamaica.?
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