Nava Dushi, Ph.D.

https://www.lynn.edu/campus-directory/people/nava-dushi

B.F.A., Film and Television, Magna cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, 1997

M.A., Communication, Florida Atlantic University, 2002

Ph.D., Film Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2016

• Film and Philosophy - the development of a theory of minor textuality, ethics and aesthetics
• The critique of representation - the Nation, the crisis of Being and the retreat of the Other
• Minor films - the political and collective becoming
• Pedagogy - cinema and media studies in the broader context of liberal arts education

Lynn University Faculty Positions, College of Communication and Design

• Professor, Film and Media Studies, Fall 2023-Present
• Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, 2016-Spring 2023
• Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, 2015-2016
• Assistant Professor, Film, 2007-2013
• Instructor, Film, 2004-2007
• Visiting Professor, Film, 2003-2004
• Adjunct, Film, 2002-2003

Administrative Experience

• Academic Program Coordinator, Film and Television Program, 2018-present
• Interim Graduate Coordinator, M.S. Communication and Media, Spring 2018
• Chair, Film Program, Lynn University, College of International Communication, 2011-2012, 2005-2008

Academic Service

• Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee - Lynn University, College of Communication and Design, 2023-
  Present
• Member, Lynn University Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee, 2023-Present
• Member, Lynn University Dialogues Task Force, 2018-2023
• Member, Curriculum Committee - Lynn University, College of Communication and Design, 2015-2023
• Chair, Curriculum Committee - Lynn University, College of Communication and Design, 2015-2019
• Member, Lynn University Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee, 2015-2019
• Member, Lynn University Global Communication Task Force, 2011-2012
• Member, Lynn University Core Curriculum Task Force, 2007-2008
• Member, Lynn University Curriculum Committee, 2005-2008
• Member, Lynn University Strategic Planning Committee, 2005

• Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Member, Association for Israel Studies

• Article Review, Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, August 2023
• Article Review, Jewish Social Studies, Indiana University Press, April 2021
• Manuscript Review, Indiana University Press, June 2020
• Article Review, Israel Studies, Indiana University Press, March 2020
• Member, Editorial board Women's Studies in Communication, 2009-2012
• Curator and Lecturer, The Florida Israel Institute Film Series “Israel Cinematic visions,” Florida Atlantic University, 2006-2009

• Teaching Assistant, Film Appreciation, Florida Atlantic University, School of Communication, Boca Raton, FL, 2001-2002

• Tel Aviv 6th International Student Film Festival, Tel Aviv University, 1996
  Editor, Festival Program
  Coordinator, Festival Juried Committee
• Freelance Cinematographer, 1994-1997
  Registered member of the Israeli Cinematographers Association

• Hebrew: Native
• English: Fluent
• French: Reading Knowledge

• Scholarship and Creative Activities Award, Lynn University, 2024-2025
• American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Schusterman Israel Scholar Award, 2010–2011
• American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Schusterman Israel Scholar Award, 2009–2010
• Florida Israel Institute Research Grant, 2008