Nadia Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pedagogy, Textured
This essay reflects on Carolyn Cooper's research on Afro-Jamaican feminisms via literary history, literary criticism, and cultural studies and her use of that research in various pedagogical spaces. The author's approach is personal and layered, working primarily through memories of being taught by Cooper in the mid- to late 1990s as a literature student at the University of the West Indies, Mona. These memories are lensed through a rereading of …
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Multiple Engagements
New Orleans and Kingston: A Beginning, A Recurrence
Territories of the Soul
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth-that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness' utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the soul, being neither here no…
Black Migrants, White Queers and the Archive of Inclusion in Postwar London
This essay examines the historical concurrence of massive West Indian migration to Britain and the explosion of discourses around British homosexuality in the mid-twentieth century. Examining unpublished archives, including an oral history by a queer Jamaican dancer who migrated to London in 1948, and juxtaposing materials from the era that are often kept separate, I work to account for, and fill in, the archival lack around black queer life in B…
Elegies of Diaspora
This essay explores Deborah Thomas's remarkable new book, Exceptional Violence, in light of the critical inheritance of the term diaspora and the status of grief in relation to Jamaica's repertoire of violence. Focusing on two examples of spectacularized violence that Thomas reads in her book, the essay explores the place of grief and the possibilities and implications of its expression in Thomas's work and for scholars and artists concerned with…
Out and Bad
This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled by its various discourses of homophobia. I suggest that the development of an interpretative practice that brings together queer theory, African diasporic studies, danc…
London chiming
Out and Bad
This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled by its various discourses of homophobia. I suggest that the development of an interpretative practice that brings together queer theory, African diasporic studies, danc…
London chiming
Out and Bad
This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled by its various discourses of homophobia. I suggest that the development of an interpretative practice that brings together queer theory, African diasporic studies, danc…
Elegies of Diaspora
This essay explores Deborah Thomas's remarkable new book, Exceptional Violence, in light of the critical inheritance of the term diaspora and the status of grief in relation to Jamaica's repertoire of violence. Focusing on two examples of spectacularized violence that Thomas reads in her book, the essay explores the place of grief and the possibilities and implications of its expression in Thomas's work and for scholars and artists concerned with…
New Orleans and Kingston: A Beginning, A Recurrence
Territories of the Soul
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth-that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness' utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the soul, being neither here no…
Black Migrants, White Queers and the Archive of Inclusion in Postwar London
This essay examines the historical concurrence of massive West Indian migration to Britain and the explosion of discourses around British homosexuality in the mid-twentieth century. Examining unpublished archives, including an oral history by a queer Jamaican dancer who migrated to London in 1948, and juxtaposing materials from the era that are often kept separate, I work to account for, and fill in, the archival lack around black queer life in B…
Multiple Engagements
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Pedagogy, Textured
This essay reflects on Carolyn Cooper's research on Afro-Jamaican feminisms via literary history, literary criticism, and cultural studies and her use of that research in various pedagogical spaces. The author's approach is personal and layered, working primarily through memories of being taught by Cooper in the mid- to late 1990s as a literature student at the University of the West Indies, Mona. These memories are lensed through a rereading of …
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works)