Nadia Nurhussein

{{Infobox academic

|name=Nadia Nurhussein

|alma_mater=University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

|discipline=English language, Africana studies

|sub_discipline=African-American literature, poetics

|workplaces=University of Massachusetts Boston
Johns Hopkins University

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1974}}

}}

Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974) is an American academic and author specialized in African-American literature, culture, and poetics. She is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Education

Nurhussein completed a Ph.D. in English at University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Beinecke Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies.{{Cite web|title=Nadia Nurhussein|url=https://english.jhu.edu/directory/nadia-nurhussein/|access-date=2020-07-16|website=Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.|date=20 January 2017 |language=en-US}}

Career

Nurhussein taught English at Mount Holyoke College from 2004 to 2005. She was a member of the faculty at University of Massachusetts Boston where she taught English from 2005 to 2016. In 2017, Nurhussein joined the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of English and Africana studies.{{Cite web|date=January 20, 2017|title=The English Department Welcomes Prof. Nadia Nurhussein|url=https://english.jhu.edu/2017/01/20/the-english-department-welcomes-prof-nadia-nurhussein/|access-date=2020-07-16|website=Johns Hopkins University|language=en-US}} She specializes in African-American literature, culture, and poetics.

Selected works

{{Cite book|last=Nurhussein|first=Nadia|title=Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry|date=2013|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=978-0-8142-1216-5|language=en}}Reviews of Rhetorics of Literacy:
{{Cite journal|last=Benson|first=Alex|date=2015|title=Review|url=https://academic.oup.com/DocumentLibrary/ALH/Online%20Review%20Series%204/Alex%20Benson%20Online%20Review%20IV-2.pdf|journal=ALH Online Review |series=Series IV}}
{{Cite journal|last=Farrar|first=Stephanie|date=2014-11-30|title=Review|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/562512|journal=Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers|language=en|volume=31|issue=2|pages=340–342|issn=1534-0643}}
{{Cite journal|last=Logan|first=April C.|date=2015|title=Review|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/american_periodicals/v025/25.1.logan.html|journal=American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography|language=en|volume=25|issue=1|pages=98–101|doi=10.1353/amp.2015.0012|s2cid=144727391|issn=1548-4238|url-access=subscription}}
{{Cite book|last=Nurhussein|first=Nadia|title=Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America|date=2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-19096-9|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Christian|first=M.|date=April 2020|title=Review|journal=Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|volume=57|issue=8|pages=910}}