Elon to host language conference Oct 1-3

Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures

Born and raised in Chicago speaking Catalan, English, and Spanish (usually all three languages in one sentence), she venured north to Minnesota to go to St. Olaf College. She was originally pre-veterinary and took all the required science courses, but her "freebie" courses were in literature and… Read More

Articles by Nina Namaste

Elon to host language conference Oct 1-3

September 14, 2026

Elon University will host the Mountain Interstate Forum on Languages & Cultures Conference from Oct 1-2, 2026 with an optional workshop on October 3.

Namaste leads Meaning of Food Conference

April 4, 2018

Nina Namaste, along with colleagues Alison Atkins from Wake Forest University and Claudia Femenias from High Point University, led the highly successful Meaning of Food: Interdisciplinary Conference on Representations of Food in the Arts & Humanities.

Nina Namaste accepted into 2011 Teagle cohort

August 25, 2011

Nina B. Namaste, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages, was recently accepted to participate in the 2011-12 cohort of the Teagle Assessment Scholar Development Program.