Zetta Elliott

Visiting Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies

Specialization
Representations of racial violence and trauma; black feminist theory; motifs of excision in women’s writing from the African Diaspora

Zetta Elliott is a black feminist writer and cultural critic. Born in Canada, Elliott has spent the past twelve years writing, teaching, and studying in the United States.

Her poetry has been published in the Cave Canem Anthology; The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South; Check the Rhyme: an Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees, and Coloring Book: an Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers.  Elliott's novella, Plastique, was excerpted in T Dot Griots: an Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers, and her essays have appeared in The Black Arts Quarterly, thirdspace, WarpLand. and Rain and Thunder. She won the 2005 Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest, and her picture book, Bird, will be published in October 2008.  Her plays have been staged in Chicago, Cleveland, and New York City.  She is a member of New Perspectives Theatre Company’s Women’s Work Lab.

At Mount Holyoke, Elliott teaches Introduction to African American & African Studies; Gender, Terror, & Trauma in African American Culture;Black Women Writers: Feminist Visions from the African Diaspora; and Black Masculinities: The Performance of Gender in African American Culture.

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