Nadia Nurhussein | |
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Born | 1974 (age 48–49) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English language,Africana studies |
Sub-discipline | African-American literature,poetics |
Institutions | University of Massachusetts Boston Johns Hopkins University |
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.
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. [1]
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. [1] In 2017,Nurhussein joined the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of English and Africana studies. [2] She specializes in African-American literature,culture,and poetics. [1]
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