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]

• Nurhussein, Nadia (2013). Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1216-5.^[3]
• Nurhussein, Nadia (2019). Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-19096-9.^[4]