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Dean's Office



Faculty

Maya Nitis, Ph.D.

Assistant to the Dean, Assistant Director of the PhD Program, Dean's Office

Office: CBEIS 104
Phone: 443-885-1225
maya.nitis@morgan.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., European Graduate School
M.A., University of Memphis
B.A., Middle Tennessee State University

Research Interest(s):

  • Critical Theory
  • Feminist Studies
  • Queer and Race Critical Theory
  • Intersectionality
  • Performativity

Teaching Interest(s):

  • Critical Thought
  • Professional Development
  • Poetics of Space and Time

Selected Publication(s):

  • Languages of Resistance 1: Performativity and Cultural Political Translation, Atropos Press, 2014.
  • I you he she: Pronounced Wisdom,” Feedback, 21 December 2017. 
  • “Feminist Materialisms in Class: Learning Without Masters,” Teaching with New Feminist Materialisms, Ed. Peta Hinton and Pat Treusch, ATGENDER: Utrecht, 2015. 113-124. “Teaching Without Masters,” Diacritics, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2013, 82-109.

Grants and/or Awards:

  • Gender and Racial Justice Scholars Award, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), 2021
  • Georg Wilhelm Gail Fellowship, JHU, 2021
  • Dean’s Prize Fellowship, JHU, 2021
  • Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, JHU, 2020
  • Women, Gender and Sexualities Summer Research Grant, JHU, 2018
  • Women, Gender and Sexualities Teaching Fellowship, JHU, 2017
  • Max Kade Travel Fellowships, JHU, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • Stulman Research Grant, JHU, 2016

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