Negar Mottahedeh
Professor of Literature
Anticipating the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, my most recent book Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran (Stanford UP,2019) draws on The Kate Millett papers in the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture in the Duke archives to recover the lost history of the women’s protests that followed quickly on the heels of Ayatollah Khomeini’s ascent to power as the leader of the Iranian Revolution. Less than a month after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the American feminist Kate Millett traveled to Tehran to join Iranian women in a celebration of International Women’s Day. As the celebration turned into six days of demonstrations, Millett’s picture appeared in major International newspapers as a participant. She was pictured holding a small tape recorder. These tapes, Millett’s “whisper tapes,” captured the soundscape of a flickering (and unfettered) moment of revolutionary vitality that spawned imaginative narratives and theories among feminists around the world. As I listened to Millett's audio tapes and in between the often contradictory layering of voices and sounds captured on them, I began writing the Whisper Tapes as a playful interpretive guide for Millett in retrospect – a guide to the demands of postrevolutionary Iran in 32 entries following the 32 letters of the Persian alphabet, introducing the reader to the Revolution’s slogans, its habits, its instincts, its foods, its monuments, its collectivism, its cast of characters and importantly to the Iranian women’s movement—a movement some have claimed Millett herself never came to understand. Whisper Tapes serves in this way as an agnotology, a study of the culturally induced ignorance of Iran, in the face its obvious, assertive, and eloquent presence.
The critical readings of unknowing and the unconscious that run through Whisper Tapes bring Freudian psychoanalysis to bear on feminism in ways that make feminism a psychoanalytic subject with its own unconscious. Attending to the space between Millett's own commentary and the voices and sounds of the Iranian women and men around her, I analyze the ways in which a socially constructed lack of knowledge (be it political, religious, or technological) situates our recognition of the things that are right in front of us. The cries of freedom that I hear on the tapes and that attracted a world of women to the Iranian women's movement, spoke of a collective quality of freedom that struck a cord, but that simultaneously spoke of ideas beyond the more familiar and intuitive notions of liberation and individualism current amongst feminists in the late 1970s. Unconscious, these ideas were left unrecognized. And to me, this is crucial. At heart of the women's collective demand was the desire for a planetary transformation and a willingness to cross into a self none of them could have ever imagined becoming and to do so on behalf of an as-to-yet-unseen and unpresent future for all: Azadi na sharghist, na gharbist, jahanist! The women's chant: "Freedom is neither Eastern, nor Western. It is planetary!" speaks to this, precisely. While, as Chandra Talpade Mohanty has argued, the logic of neoliberalism in feminism today has collapsed "notions of collectivity into the personal," eroding both power and political agency into acts of consumption, it is this collective leap towards a planetary freedom that has the capacity of reaching --beyond the politicization of the personal --towards a quality of human solidarity around social justice that cannot be satiated by the selective logics of consumption. In attending to the unconscious and to the cultural work of an agnotology that situates Millett's global feminism, Whisper Tapes returns to the 1970s to speak to a tenuous and yet fragile possibility of feminist solidarity across difference on a global scale.
Languages
Fluent: English, Farsi (Modern Persian), Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk
Proficient: French, German, Arabic (Classical and Modern), Spanish
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019
- Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
- Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Contact Information
- 125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
- Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
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negar@duke.edu
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Negar Mottahedeh's Website
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1998
- M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1994
- B.A., Mount Holyoke College 1990
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2021
- Associate Professor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2020
- Associate Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2019
- Associate Professor in Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2014
- Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2009
- Assistant Professor in the Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2009
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Signature course "Hashtags Memes & Digital Tribes". Office of the Dean. January 1, 2016
- Middle East Book Award for #iranelection. Washington Post. 2015
- Arts and Sciences Annual Research Grant for “#iranelection”. Duke University. 2015
- The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation for “BP Oil films”. Duke University. 2015
- Humanities Writ Large Grant for “Muslim Publics”. Mellon Foundation. 2013
- Partnership in a Global Age Grant for “Art of Democratic Revolution”. Mellon Foundation. 2013
- Latifeh Yarshater Award for "Representing the Unrepresentable". Persian Heritage Foundation. August 2008
- Persian Heritage Foundation Book Award for Displaced Allegories. Persian Heritage Foundation, Columbia University . 2008
- Faculty Fellow. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. 2004
- Rockefeller Foundation Residency Program Fellowship. Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University. 2001
- Best Dissertation of the Year Award. The Foundation for Iranian Studies. 1998
- Harold Leonard Fellowship in Film Research. University of Minnesota. 1995
- MacArthur Pre-Dissertation Field Research Fellowship. University of Minnesota. 1995
- Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Departmental Fellowship. Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. 1991
- Norwegian Government Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad. Kingdom of Norway. 1991
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
- Algeria (Country)
- Belarus (Country)
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Country)
- Brazil (Country)
- Chile (Country)
- China (Country)
- Cuba (Country)
- Egypt (Country)
- Iceland (Country)
- India (Country)
- Israel (Country)
- Italy (Country)
- Kuwait (Country)
- Lebanon (Country)
- Russian Federation (Country)
- South Africa (Country)
- Spain (Country)
- Syrian Arab Republic (Country)
- Tunisia (Country)
- Turkey (Country)
- United States of America (Country)
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Country)
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Abdu'l Baha in America or How did a Middle Eastern 19th Century Reformer Impact American Cultural Life and Politics? awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2010 - 2011
- A Research Project to Highlight the History, the Production, as Well as the Aesthetic and Stylist Traditions of Six World Film Industries awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2003 - 2004
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Mottahedeh, Negar. Whisper Tapes Kate Millett in Iran. Stanford University Press, 2019.Open Access Copy
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Mottahedeh, N., I. Szeman, and M. O’Driscoll. After oil 2015 (Accepted). Petrocultures Research Group (in partnership with press), 2016.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.
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Mottahedeh, N. Introduction, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032010.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N., ed. Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
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Mottahedeh, N., ed. Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
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Mottahedeh, N. Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
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Mottahedeh, N. Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
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Academic Articles
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LARNEY, E. M., and N. Mottahedeh. “Images of an undocumented revolution: Interview with claudine mulard.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 235–43. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238272.Full Text
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McLARNEY, E., and N. MOTTAHEDEH. “Soundscapes of the iranian revolution.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 227–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238258.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Reel Evil.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 57, no. 4 (June 1, 2018): 146–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2018.0060.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, Negar. “Nahid Siamdoust, Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017). Pp. 368. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9781503600324.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50, no. 2 (May 2018): 348–49. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002074381800034x.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Le Vent Nous Portera: of lovers possessed, times entangled, and bodies carried away (Accepted),” 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Unruly voices and Narratives (Accepted),” 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “'Hashtag solidarity and the radical kinship of Twitter’s #iraneletion' Medium https://medium.com/@negaratduke June 12 2015.” Medium, June 12, 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Hashtag solidarity in Iran: How the Green Movement mobilized social media in the interest of social change.” Stanford University Press Blog, June 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Anatomy of a Tweet.” The Immanent Frame: A Journal for the Ssrc, February 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “How #Iranelection Transformed the Public Sphere.” Islamicommentary: Forum for Public Scholarship, June 2014.Link to Item
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Saljoughi, S., and N. Mottahedeh. “Rethinking Gender in Contemporary Iranian Art and Cinema.” Iranian Studies 45, no. 4 (July 2012): 499–502.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Green is the New Green: Social Media and the Post Election Crisis in Iran 2009 (Accepted).” New Politics 8, no. 1 (July 2010).Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Brainquake Not Boobquake.” Religion Dispatches, May 2010.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Iranian Women in Protest (Accepted).” Equilibri Magazine (Italy), 2010.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009.” Frontline: Tehran Bureau, 2010.
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Mottahedeh, Negar. “Iranian Cinema in the Twentieth Century: A Sensory History.” Iranian Studies 42, no. 4 (September 2009): 529–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/00210860903106279.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 29 (2009).
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker: Makhmalbaf at Large by Hamid Dabashi.” Cinema Journal 49 (2009).
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Mottahedeh, N. “Collection and Recollection: On Studying the Early History of Motion Pictures in Iran.” Early Popular Visual Culture 6, no. 2 (June 2008): 103–20.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Karbala Drag Kings and Queens.” The Drama Review, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War.” Middle East Research and Information Project, September 2004.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War.” Middle East Research and Information Project, 2004.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Christine Jeff's 'Rain': Universality and Narrative Displacement in Cinema.” World Order Magazine 35, no. 1 (2004): 33–41.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Memory and Gender in Iranian History,” 2004.
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Mottahedeh, N. “After-Images of a Revolution.” Radical History Review 2003, no. 86 (March 1, 2003): 183–92. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-183.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “After Images of a Revolution: On the Work of Shirin Neshat and Gita Hashemi.” Radical History Review 86 (2003): 183–92.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “The fictive primitives global (short-) circuit.” Signs, 2003.
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Mottahedeh, N. “'Turbulent'.” Radical History Review, no. 86 (2003): 183–92.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “'Women of Allah'.” Radical History Review, no. 86 (2003): 183–92.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Of shifting shadows: Returning to the 1979 Iranian Revolution through an exilic journey in memory and history (CD-ROM).” Radical History Review, no. 86 (2003): 183–92.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “'Rapture'.” Radical History Review, no. 86 (2003): 183–92.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, Negar. “Bahram Bayzai'sMaybe...Some Other Time: The un-Present-able Iran.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 15, no. 1 (2000): 163–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-15-1_43-163.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Resurrection, Return, Reform: Ta'ziyeh as Model for Early Babi Historiography.” Iranian Studies 32, no. 3 (1999): 387–99.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al- ’Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht” 2, no. 2 (February 1998).
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Mottahedeh, N. “The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 18, no. 2 (1998): 38–50.
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Mottahedeh, N. “The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn Tahirah's Unveiling and the Iranian Massacre of the Babis.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 18, no. 2 (1998): 38–50.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al- ’Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht.” Ucla Historical Journal 17 (1997): 59–81.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Scheduled For Judgment Day: The Ta'ziyeh Performance in Qajar Persia and Walter Benjamin's Dramatic Vision of History.” Theatre Insight 8, no. 1 (1997): 12–20.
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Book Sections
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Mottahedeh, N. “The people: The #selfie's urform.” In Selfie Citizenship, 59–62, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45270-8_7.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Abdu’l Bahá and the Baha’i Message of Human Solidarity (Accepted).” In The First Universal Races Congress of 1911: Empires, Civilizations, Encounters, edited by M. Bonakdarian, I. C. Fletcher, and Y. Simpson Fletcher, 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “One Light : Cinema and Islamic Spirituality (Accepted).” In Whiley-Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality, edited by B. Lawrence and V. Cornell, 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Crude Extractions: the Voice in Iranian Cinema (Accepted).” In Locating the Voice in Film, edited by T. Whittaker and S. Wright, 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Tehran in Cinema (Accepted).” In Tehran in the Iranian Cultural Imaginary, edited by N. Rahimieh and D. Parviz Brookshaw, 2016.
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Mottahedeh, N. “the people [pee-puh l] verb, noun : networked contagion. related forms: #selfie (Accepted),” 2016.
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Mottahedeh, Negar. “'ABDU'L-BAHA'S JOURNEY WEST THE COURSE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY INTRODUCTION.” In ABUDU’L-BAHA’S JOURNEY WEST: THE COURSE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY, 1-+, 2013.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Karbala Drag Kings and Queens.” In Eternal Performance: Ta’ziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals, edited by P. J. Chelkowski, 149–69. London: Seagull Books, 2010.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Woman is Color: on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Gabbeh.” In Cines Del Sul (International Film Festival Book), 2008.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Women, Gender and Constituting the Female Body.” In Iran, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, edited by S. Joseph. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Female Body as Metaphor.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, edited by S. Joseph, Vol. 5. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Memory and Gender in Iranian History.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, edited by S. Joseph, Vol. 2. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006.
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Mottahedeh, N. “The New Iranian Cinema.” In Traditions in World Cinema, edited by L. Badley, S. Schneider, and R. B. Palmer, 176–89. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
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Mottahedeh, N. “New Iranian cinema: 1982-present.” In Traditions in World Cinema, 176–90, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Ta'ziyeh: A Twist of History in Everyday Life.” In The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi’i Islam, edited by K. S. Aghaie, 25–43. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Memory, Women, and Community: Iran.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 5. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Body: Female: Iran.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 5. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Where are Kiarostami’s Women?” edited by Eds Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour. MIT Press, 2004.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Where are Kiarostami’s Women?” In Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film, edited by A. Egoyan and I. Balfour, 309–33. MIT Press, 2004.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Ruptured Spaces, Effective Histories.” In Tahirih in History: Perspective on Qurrat Al-’Ayn from East and West, Studies in the Babi and Baha’i Religions, edited by S. Afaqi, 16:203–19. Kalimat Press, 2004.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Where are Kiarostami's women?,” 2003.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Images of Women: [08] Middle East.” In The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge, edited by C. Kramarae and D. Spender, 4:1118–20. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Bahram Bayza'i: Filmography.” In Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema, edited by R. Issa and S. Whitaker, 74–82. London: BFI, 1999.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-’Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht,” 17:59–81, 1997.
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Mottahedeh, N. ““Ruptured Spaces, Effective Histories”.” edited by Sabir Afaqi, Vol. 16. Kalimat press, 1997.
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Other Articles
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Mottahedeh, N. “A Revolutionary Meme.” Cinema Journal: In Media Res, August 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “#iranelection.” The Page 99 Test, July 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “A Revolution of Flesh and Data.” Duke Magazine, July 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Hashtag solidarity and the radical kinship of Twitter’s #iraneletion.” Medium, June 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “How #Iranelection transformed the Public Sphere.” Islamicommentary: Forum for Public Scholarship, June 16, 2014.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity (Palgrave, April 2013),” April 2013.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Allah-o-Akhbar.” Arteeast Quarterly C+: The Iran Issue., April 2012.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Brainquake Not Boobquake.” Religion Dispatches, May 2010.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Green is the New Green: Social Media and the Post Election Crisis in Iran 2009.” New Politics, 2010.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009.” Frontline: Tehran Bureau, July 2009.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Reel Evil Industries,” 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Syracuse University Press, 2004.
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Mottahedeh, N. ““Bahram Bayza‘i’s Maybe Some Other Time: The un-Present-able Iran”.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, 1999.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Memory and Gender in Iranian History.” Leiden, Netherlands: Bril, n.d.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Female Body as Metaphor.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, n.d.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Memory and Gender in Iranian History,” n.d.
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Mottahedeh, N. “The New Iranian Cinema.” Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, n.d.
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Book Reviews
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Pedram Khosronejad's 'Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom, and National Identity'.” Edited by P. Khosronejad. Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, 2013.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Nacim Pak-Shiraz's 'Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality in Film'.” Contemporary Islam, August 2012.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'Abbas Kiarostami'.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, August 2009. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439680903115911.Full Text
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Hamid Dabashi's 'The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker: Makhmalbaf at Large'.” Cinema Journal, 2009.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh N, N. “Review of Richard Tapper's 'The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation, and Identity'.” Edited by R. Tapper. Iranian Studies, June 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Nasrin Rahimieh's 'Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History'.” Iranian Studies, 2003.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Hamid Naficy's 'An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking'.” Iranian Studies, 2003.
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Mottahedeh N, N. “Review of Kamran Talattof and Jerome W. Clinton's 'The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric'.” Journal for Iranian Research and Analysis, 2001.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Review of Nader Ahmadi and Fereshteh Ahmadi's 'Iranian Islam: The Concept of the Individual'.” Iranian Studies, 2000.
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Journal Issues
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Mottahedeh, N. “Iranian Women in Protest 1953, 1978, 2009.” Edited by J. Beller. Scholar and Feminist Online: Feminist Media Theory, 2012.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Negative Refractions: Recent Feminist Writing on the Middle East.” Women’S Studies Quarterly: The Global Intimate, 2006.
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Mottahedeh, N. “Karbala Drag Kings and Queens.” The Drama Review: Ta’Ziyeh, 2005.
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Mottahedeh, N. “'Life is Color!' Towards a Transnational Feminist Analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'Gabbeh'.” Signs, 2004.
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Digital Publications
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Mottahedeh, N., A. Kuntsman, and R. Stein. “Political Consciousness of a Selfie.” Stanford University Press Blog, July 2015.Link to Item
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Mottahedeh, N. “Hashtag solidarity in Iran: How the Green Movement mobilized social media in the interest of social change.” Stanford University Press Blog, June 12, 2015.Link to Item
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Theses and Dissertations
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Mottahedeh, N. “Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Edited by J. W. Mowitt, 1998.
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Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
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Artistic Works & Non-Print Media
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Films
- Asia Society New York Iranian New Wave film series. Consultant. 2013
- Education under Fire. Consultant. 2011
- Asia Society’s Tribute to Jafar Panahi. Consultant. 2011
- Middle Eastern Film Festival. Curator. 2011
- Twitfilm. Consultant. 2009
- Twitfilm. Consultant. 2009
- Accented Cinemas of the Middle East film series. Consultant. 2009
- Holding up Half the Sky: Muslim Women in Film,. Consultant. 2008
- Iranian Film Festival & Iranian Studies Conference. Consultant. 2008
- “Axis of Evil": Aftershocks. Consultant. 2008
- Aftershocks: September 11th. Consultant. 2006
- Middle East in FOCUS film programming. Consultant. 2005
- 3rd I: Showcasing Latin American Indigenous Films. Consultant. 2004
- Ararda/Between: Turkish film festival panel discussion . Consultant. 2004
- Forget Baghdad. Consultant. 2004
- Full Frame Film Festival. Consultant. 2004
- Hip Hop film series . Consultant. 2004
- Contemporary Iranian Cinema. Consultant. 2003
- Middle Eastern Film Series. Consultant. 2003
- Reel Evil: Films from the Axis of Evil series. Consultant. 2003
- The Day I Became a Woman . Consultant. 2003
- Anime film festival. Consultant. 2002
- Iranian film festival. Consultant. 2002
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Installations
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- GSF 229S: Space-Body-Image 2023
- LIT 229S: Space-Body-Image 2023
- VMS 226S: Space-Body-Image 2023
- AMES 190FS: AMES Special Topics-Focus Program 2022
- AMES 402S: Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes 2022
- AMES 690S: Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 2022
- CMAC 190FS: Topics in Computational Media 2022
- FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2022
- GSF 320S: Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes 2022
- GSF 611S: Film Feminisms 2022
- ICS 190FS: Focus Program Selected Topics in International Comparative Studies 2022
- ISS 190FS: Special Topics in Information Science + Studies - Focus 2022
- ISS 302S: Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes 2022
- LATAMER 190FS: Focus Program Topics in Latin American Studies 2022
- LIT 190FS: Special Topics in the Focus Program 2022
- LIT 302S: Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes 2022
- LIT 393: Research Independent Study 2022
- LIT 611S: Film Feminisms 2022
- LIT 690S: Special Topics in Literature 2022
- RIGHTS 190FS: Focus Program Topics in Human Rights 2022
- VMS 190FS: Topics in Focus: Visual and Media Studies 2022
- VMS 349S: Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes 2022
- AAAS 247S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- AMES 318S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- AMES 627S: Comparative Media Studies 2021
- ICS 320S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- ISS 323S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- ISS 615S: Comparative Media Studies 2021
- LATAMER 320S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- LIT 320S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- LIT 393: Research Independent Study 2021
- LIT 625S: Comparative Media Studies 2021
- RIGHTS 323S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- VMS 323S: Social Movements and Social Media 2021
- VMS 625S: Comparative Media Studies 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- “Residual Slick: The discovery of “modern Iran” in Anglo-American oil films” . World Literature Symposium. Binghamton University. April 2016 2016
- “How to See the World: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff” . Forum for Scholars and Publics. Duke University. March 2016 2016
- “Under the hood: #iranelection” . Faculty Book Watch. Duke University. March 2016 2016
- “Media Dissent, Theory and Practice: #iranelection” . Art History and Communication Studies. February 1, 2016 2016
- “Outrage fatigue, democracy, and activism in the age of information overload: A Conversation with Rahaf Harfoush”. Forum for Scholars and Publics. Duke University. February 2016 2016
- “The Future of the Meme: #Iranelection, Activism, Social Media,”. Institute for Advanced Study. University of Minnesota.. January 28, 2016 2016
- “Beirut and Paris Attacks and Social Media”. Scholars and Publics. November 19, 2015 2015
- “Role of Social Media during Beirut & Paris attacks". IslamiCommentary Storified. November 17, 2015 2015
- “#iranelection, #Beirutattacks, #PrayforParis” . Tisch School, New York University . November 2015 2015
- “Beirut and Paris attacks on Social Media: A Conversation with Laurent Dubois”. Forum for Scholars and Publics . Duke University. November 2015 2015
- “Residual Slick: Territorial expansion and Benthic depths in the Golestan film cycle”. Drilling Through the Screen Conference. Stockholm University. October 2015 2015
- “Residual Slick: The discovery of ‘modern Iran’ in Anglo-American oil films”. American Studies Association,. October 2015 2015
- “New Texts Out Now: Negar Mottahedeh, #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life” . September 23, 2015 2015
- “#iranelection” . University of New South Wales. September 2015 2015
- #iranelection: How solidarity around a hashtag transformed the ecology of online life during the 2009 Iranian election crisis. Iranian Studies Initiative. May 2015 2015
- Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh on the Background of Rosewater. IslamiCommentary. April 10, 2015 2015
- “Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennett on the Lessons of Rosewater” . IslamiCommentary. April 10, 2015 2015
- “Bearing Witness #Iranelection: Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennett on the Lessons of Rosewater”. IslamiCommentary. April 10, 2015 2015
- An anatomy of the Islamic cyborg. Wednesdays at the Center. April 2015 2015
- The Gaze and the Voice in Iranian Cinema. Women's Studies. April 2015 2015
- Tweeting Judgment Day. Geographic Imaginaries Conference. April 2015 2015
- “That selfie isn’t self-love: It’s activism” . . March 16, 2015 2015
- “Pop Culture’s Slyest Decoders: Selfie Scholars take the stage” . Forbes/Tech. March 14, 2015 2015
- Negar Mottahedeh and Phil Bennet Screen Jon Stewart’s Iran movies Rosewater March 17. IslamiCommentary. March 11, 2015 2015
- Freedom of Speech and Social Media. Kenan Ethics. March 2015 2015
- Le vent nous portera: Of lovers possessed, times entangled, and bodies carried away . SCMS special program “Winds from the Middle East”. March 2015 2015
- Post-screening conversation of “Rosewater”. March 2015 2015
- Speaking Duckface to Power. SxSW Interactive. March 2015 2015
- Crude Extractions: The Quest for Oil and the Construction of an Imaginary Modernity in Iranian Cinema. February 2015 2015
- Forum for Public and Scholars lunch conversation with filmmaker James Longley. February 2015 2015
- Post-screening conversation of “The Visitor”. January 2015 2015
- Listen: Tufekci and Mottahedeh talk YouTube, Net Neutrality and Social Movements. IslamiCommentary. November 4, 2014 2014
- “Listen: Tufekci and Mottahedeh talk YouTube, Net Neutrality and Social Movements”. IslamiCommentary. November 4, 2014 2014
- An Anatomy of the Islamic Cyborg. Cultural Anthropology. November 2014 2014
- Hashtag #Iranelection and the transformation of the ecology of online life. The Office of News and Communications. November 2014 2014
- Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema? (with Gohar Homayounpour and Ranji Khanna). Women's Studies. November 2014 2014
- One Light: Cinema and Islamic Spirituality. Image Voice Action Conference Media Studies. November 2014 2014
- Tweeting Judgment Day. Middle Eastern Studies Conference. November 2014 2014
- “One Light : Cinema and Islamic Spirituality” . Image Voice Action Conference Media Studies. McGill University. November 2014 2014
- “Oil: pastoralism & modernity in the Golestan film cycle” . Society for Iranian Studies Biennial. October 2014 2014
- Expanding the Duke Classroom. Duke Today. September 3, 2014 2014
- “Expanding the Duke Classroom” . Duke Today. September 3, 2014 2014
- Oil: Pastoralism & modernity in the Golestan film cycle. Iranian Studies Conference. August 2014 2014
- Abbas Kiarostami’s "Like Someone in Love". Vision Room Series. Pratt Institute. April 2014 2014
- Technology and the Sacred: Voices and Faces of the Adhan in Cairo. IslamiCommentary. March 19, 2014 2014
- “Technology and the Sacred: Voices and Faces of the Adhan in Cairo”. IslamiCommentary. March 19, 2014 2014
- “Collection/Recollection: Iranian Cinema” . Critical Genealogies of the Middle East. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . 2014 2014
- “Iranian New Wave and its preservation” a conversation with Jamsheed Akrami,. November 1, 2013 2013
- “The Golestan workshop and the future of the Iranian New Wave” a response to Hamid Naficy. November 1, 2013 2013
- “#CNNfail: Embodied acts of dissent in the age of viral reality". October 1, 2013 2013
- “The Muslim Sensorium Commune”. June 1, 2013 2013
- “Abdu’l Baha’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity". IslamiCommentary. April 17, 2013 2013
- “I evig Transitt: Akademiske Nomader' . Forskerforum. April 2013 2013
- “Harlem Shake” . IslamiCommentary. March 17, 2013 2013
- “Iranian Cinema: A Women’s Cinema”. March 1, 2013 2013
- “Iranian Cinema: the Industrializing Years 1941-1978”. February 1, 2013 2013
- “Here Comes Everybody” . IslamiCommentary. January 14, 2013 2013
- “Filmmaking in Iran” . KBIA 91.3 Mid-Missouri Public Radio. December 6, 2012 2012
- Jafar Panahi’s Offside and the fate of the filmmaker in the 2009 post-election uprising.. November 1, 2012 2012
- The Ta'zieyh and Iranian Cinema. May 1, 2012 2012
- Transformations in the politics of spectacle. February 1, 2012 2012
- “ Allah-o-Akbar” on the documentary film series “Bridge to Iran”. February 1, 2012 2012
- “ Hashtag #Iranelection”. December 18, 2011 2011
- "Citizen Journalism in Iran: Hashtag #Iranelection” . MLA Presidential forum. December 2011 2011
- Circulating Photographs: Iranian women in revolt 1953, 1978, 2009. December 1, 2011 2011
- “Calling the Nation into Being”. MESA. December 2011 2011
- “Where the Future Nests: Babi and Baha’i Photography”. Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran conference. University of Toronto. July 2011 2011
- “Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof tribute at YBCA” . San Francisco Gate. March 20, 2011 2011
- “Calling a Nation into Being: Protest and Parapraxis in Iran”. February 1, 2011 2011
- “Iranian Cinema: A Sense-history”. February 1, 2011 2011
- “Mundus Imaginalis: a response to Hamid Dabashi on the Sites of Iranian cinema”. Columbia University. February 2011 2011
- “Reading The Battle of Algiers”. Pratt Institute. February 2011 2011
- Art of Attention: Contemporary Iranian Art: A Response. December 2, 2010 2010
- Men in Scarves. December 2, 2010 2010
- Modernscapes and the Secret of Divine Civilization. November 1, 2010 2010
- On the streets of Tehran: Women Protesting in the streets: 1953, 1979, 2009. September 1, 2010 2010
- “Iranian Cinema thrives despite restrictions”. Here & Now (Public Radio). June 2010 2010
- Iranian Cinema Before and After 1979. May 1, 2010 2010
- Calling the Nation into being: the chants of the post-Election uprising historically. April 1, 2010 2010
- Social Media in Education. April 1, 2010 2010
- The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media. April 1, 2010 2010
- The Iranian Political Crisis: Social Media Brought you the news. April 1, 2010 2010
- “An internet coup d’ta-tas” . All Tech Considered, NPR. April 2010 2010
- “Coup d’ta-tas: Cleric’s Comments ignite skin-bearing backlash” . Herald de Paris. April 2010 2010
- “Iran, Social Media, Women and more…”. April 2010 2010
- “Social Media in Education” . FutureWeb 2010/WWW2010. April 2010 2010
- “Social Media in the classroom” . Future Web (futureweb2010blog). April 2010 2010
- The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media. March 1, 2010 2010
- National Cinemas and Cine-Semiotics. February 1, 2010 2010
- The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media. February 1, 2010 2010
- The uses of social media in the classroom. February 1, 2010 2010
- “Social Media and other research on Iran” . Online Office Hours (dukeofficehours.com). February 2010 2010
- “The uses of social media in the classroom”. Duke University. February 2010 2010
- Accented Cinemas of the Middle East. November 27, 2009 2009
- Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 20092009. November 27, 2009 2009
- Iranian cinema. November 27, 2009 2009
- Twitter Film Festival 1. November 27, 2009 2009
- Twitter Film Festival 2. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 2009”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Displaced Allegories: on Iranian cinema". November 27, 2009 2009
- “Iranian Cinema: A history of the Sense”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979, 2009”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Some Professors Jitters over Twitter are easing”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the many uses of Twitter”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Twitter Film Festival Goes Live at Duke”. November 27, 2009 2009
- “Changes in eyewitness accounts from 1979 and 2009” . The State of Things, NPR. November 2009 2009
- Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema?. Duke Visual Studies, Duke University.. October 2009 2009
- Islamic Cyborgs? A Study of Iran's Mystical Cinema . Leiden University, Holland. October 2009 2009
- “Displaced Allegories: on Iranian cinema” . Second Cinema, iTunes. October 2009 2009
- “Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema?" . Duke Visual Studies, Duke University. October 2009 2009
- “Iranian cinema” . PBS World Focus. October 2009 2009
- “The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and Social Media”. September 2009 2009
- Myth and History in Iranian Studies. August 1, 2009 2009
- The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media. August 2009 2009
- “The 2009 Iranian Presidential Election and the role of Social Media” . August 2009 2009
- “Some Professors Jitters over Twitter are easing” . Washington Post. June 2009 2009
- “The commodified film body and the Imaginal world: A study of post- Revolutionary Iranian Cinema". April 2009 2009
- “Twitter Film Festival Goes Live at Duke” . Chronicle of Higher Education. April 2009 2009
- “Where the future nests: 19th century Babi and Baha'i photography. April 2009 2009
- “Iranian Film Industry Thriving, Hollywood learns” . CNN.com. March 2009 2009
- “Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979, 2009". PBS Frontline, Tehran Bureau. January 2009 2009
- "Iranian National Cinema, a Woman's Cinema?" . November 2008 2008
- “Islamic Cyborgs? A Study of Iran's Mystical Cinema”. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. October 2008 2008
- “The commodified film body and the Imaginal world: A study of post- Revolutionary Iranian Cinema". Medias Religions Conference. Duke-UNC. February 2008 2008
- “Axis of Evil: Aftershocks” . Denison University Museum, Ohio. January 2008 2008
- “Prohibition and Production: Panahi’s Offiside” . North Carolina State University. November 2007 2007
- “On Iranian Cinema” . 40th Anniversary of The Society for Iranian Studies. October 2007 2007
- “On Panahi’s Offside with Sheryl Irwin”. WGVU. October 2007 2007
- “Prohibition and Production: Panahi’s Offiside” . GVSU Middle East Film Festival. October 2007 2007
- “Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East” paper on Elle Flanders “Zero Degrees of Separation” . Sexuality Studies, Duke University. September 2007 2007
- “Collection/Recollection: Studying the History of National Cinemas” . Society of Cinema Studies. March 2007 2007
- “The Iranian Film Industry: a History”. Literature Program, Duke University. March 2007 2007
- “Contemporary Iranian Cinema: A Woman's cinema". AMEWS panel. Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA). November 2006 2006
- “Image as Event”. Panel on Cultural Fictions and Symbolic Realities, Under Fire and The Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville . November 2006 2006
- “Realism and Global Sense Perception”. Under Fire and the University of California, San Diego. November 2006 2006
- “The Fruits of Total War”. Panel on Cultural Fictions and Symbolic Realities. Under Fire and The University of Seville. November 2006 2006
- “Iranian Cinema as a Woman's Cinema”. Psychoanalytic Society. October 2006 2006
- “Bayza’i’s Bashu and the problem of a national language in cinema”. Department of Asian and African Languages and Literatures, Duke University. September 2005 2005
- “Reading the news image” . FOCUS Middle East Program. IDC, Duke University. September 2005 2005
- “The film function in the Third World” . Literature Program, Duke University. September 2005 2005
- “The modest gaze in the New Iranian Cinema” . FOCUS Middle East Program. IDC, Duke University. September 2005 2005
- “Fredric Jameson “Sokurov and the Late Modern” . Respondent, Post-Soviet Culture Theory. February 2005 2005
- “The Gaze: Tactile, Modest, Averted” . Iranian Cinema. Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. January 2005 2005
- “Hollywood Remakes, Bollywood Samples and the global film market” . Globalization and Indigenous Cultures conference. Zhengzhou University, China. June 2004 2004
- “Reel Evil: Film Festivals, Dictatorship and the Passion for cinema” . Charles Darwin University, Australia. June 2004 2004
- “Cinematic Utopias?” . Society for Iranian Studies Biennial. May 2004 2004
- “Responding to Indigenous Films: Thinking Reception". Rethinking the Humanities, Globalization and the limits of Translation seminar. Duke University. 2004 2004
- “Transnational feminism and cinema” . Transnational Feminism and the International Faculty Seminar. Duke University. 2004 2004
- “Bollywood V. World: nationalists, mullahs, Bajrang Dal and political potboilers”. Freeman Conference From the Book to the Internet: Communication Technologies, Human Motions and Cultural Formations in Eastern Asia. University of Oregon. October 2003 2003
- “New Iranian Cinema” . The Day I Became a Woman Film Festival and Conference on Iranian Cinema. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. October 2003 2003
- “Shock and Awe: The Organization and International Response to Reel Evil: Films from the Axis of Evil” . Ohio State University. May 2003 2003
- “Where are Kiarostami’s Women” . Kevorkian Center, New York University. May 2003 2003
- “Teaching World Cinema” . Literature Graduate Colloquium. Duke University. April 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . Fox News TV. March 10, 2003 2003
- "Film: Changing Perceptions of Real Evil: View life through the cinematic lenses of 'our worst enemies'". Duke Chronicle. Duke University. March 6, 2003 2003
- “Le cinéma de l'axe du Mal". Le Monde. March 5, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil”. All Things Considered National Public Radio. March 2, 2003 2003
- The Shifting Turf of Third Cinema” . Society for Cinema Studies. March 2003 2003
- “Narrative, Universality and Displacements in Cinema” . Narrative. March 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . MTV Campus Network. March 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil". WRAL TV (CBS). February 28, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . BBC Five Live. February 27, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil”. Berlin Sfb. February 27, 2003 2003
- “'Reel Evil' Duke series to screen films from 'rogue' states”. The Herald Sun. February 26, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . BBC World Service. February 26, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . MSNBC TV Live. February 26, 2003 2003
- "Reel Evil” . BBC London. February 24, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . CNNfn TV Live. February 24, 2003 2003
- “Reel Evil” . Stirling Faux. CKNW ACURA BC, Vancouver Radio Live. February 22, 2003 2003
- “Film Series to Showcase Works from Axis of Evil Nations” . February 19, 2003 2003
- “Primitives Circulating the Globe” . Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Convention. November 2002 2002
- “An Introduction to Anime” . Columbus College of Art and Design. October 2002 2002
- “What is it saying?" . Conference on Iranian Cinema. Columbia University and The Lincoln Center. September 2002 2002
- "Myth and History in Iranian Studies" . August 2002 2002
- “Iranian Cinema”. BBC Art. August 2002 2002
- “Ramin Serry's Maryam” . All Things Considered, NPR. July 30, 2002 2002
- “Ta'ziyeh in New York” . BBC Persian. July 19, 2002 2002
- “Karbala Drag Kings and Queens". Ta’ziyeh. The Asia Society. July 2002 2002
- "Hamid Rahmanian: Shahrbanu" . The Cinema Culture and Society program. Liberal Studies, Parson School, New School University. May 2002 2002
- “Gabbeh's montage: the emancipation of the global screen". Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference. May 2002 2002
- “Karbala Drag Kings and Queens” . Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference. May 2002 2002
- “Ramin Serry's Maryam: an introduction”. Emory University. April 2002 2002
- “Feminist Approaches: Rights and Responsibilities". Conversation on the Current Crisis at the Intersection of Race and Gender with Charlotte Bunch. Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. October 2001 2001
- “Ethnography and new Orientalism in contemporary Middle Eastern Cinemas” . Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Society for Cinema Studies . May 2001 2001
- “Framed Unframed” . School of Oriental and African Studies/Barbican Centre. May 2001 2001
- "Halfaouine: Coming of age with a Freudian fetish” . Modern Languages Association. December 2000 2000
- “Shirin Neshat: Fervor, Rapture and Turbulence” . Gallery Talk. Wexner, Center for the Arts. October 2000 2000
- “Iranian Cliches: Locating National Modernity in Photography” . Society for Iranian Studies Biannual Conference. Society for Iranian Studies . May 2000 2000
- “Iranian Cinema: Representations of a Hybrid Nation” . Society for Iranian Studies Panel, Middle Eastern Studies. Society for Iranian Studies . November 1999 1999
- “Dialect and Diversity in Iranian Cinema: Bahram Bayza'i's Bashu” . Modern Languages Association. March 1999 1999
- “Fashioning Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah” . Nineteenth Century Studies. March 1999 1999
- “The Enamored: Enunciating the Hybrid Iranian nation" . English Department, Amherst College. March 1999 1999
- “The Enamored: Enunciating the Hybrid Iranian nation" . English Department, Amherst College. March 1999 1999
- “Framing Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah” . Graduate Colloquium. Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. February 1999 1999
- “Framing Qajar Iran: the Camera in the Hand of Nasir al-Din Shah”. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University. February 1999 1999
- “Constructive Controversy in HECUA's City Arts Program” . National Society for Experiential Education. October 1998 1998
- “Women in Iranian Cinema". Radio Iran. March 8, 1998 1998
- “The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-’Ayn’s Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Babis circa 1852” . Cramp'd into a Planisphere: Mapping Cultural Spaces. University of Haifa. December 1997 1997
- “Resurrection, Return, Reform: Ta’ziyeh as Model for Early Babi Historiography”. Middle Eastern Studies Association. November 1997 1997
- “Maybe Some Other Time: Bahram Bayza'is film language” . Cross-Cultural Poetics. University of Minnesota. October 1997 1997
- “Maybe Some Other Time: Bahram Bayza'is film language” . Cross-Cultural Poetics. University of Minnesota. October 1997 1997
- “The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-’Ayn’s Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Babis circa 1852” . Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Twelfth Annual Conference. University of California at Berkeley. April 1997 1997
- “Striking on the Plains of Karbala: Walter Benjamin’s Dramatic Vision of History and the Ta’ziyeh Performance in Qajar Persia”. Festival of Original Theatre and Film. University of Toronto. March 1997 1997
- “Trouble in Paradise: The Disarticulation of Islamic Space in Babi Discourse (1844-53)”. Graduate Student’s Conference on History. Princeton University. October 1995 1995
- “Reading the Arabian Nights in the Gardens of Versailles” . November 1994 1994
- “Readings in Postcolonial Theory: The Unhomely Nights in Versailles” . Midwestern Modern Languages Association. November 1994 1994
- “Reading the Arabian Nights in the Gardens of Versailles” . Midwestern Eighteenth Century Studies. University of Minnesota. October 1994 1994
- “The Emergence of ‘the limit attitude’ in Foucault’s Genealogical Study of the Subject”. University of Minnesota Scholars Conference. University of Minnesota. February 1994 1994
- “French Feminist Theory: Toward a Definition of a Language of Exile" . Center for European Studies. University of Minnesota. November 1992 1992
- “Nietzsche’s Language of Exile and Écriture Féminine” . German Studies, University of Minnesota. October 1992 1992
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Participant. Faculty Success Program. National Cener for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2018 2018
- Editor. Academia.edu. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Member. Newcombe Fellowship Committee. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Advisory Board Member. Tarikh. 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
- Advisory Board Member. Tarjuman. 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
- Co-Convenor. Islamic Media: Technology and the Sacred Conference. 2014 2014
- Islamic Media: Technologies and the Sacred. Collective Research Project (AMES 495/695). 2014 2014
- Member. Selfies Research Network. 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
- Co-Convener. Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation Conference. November 2013 2013
- curatorial advisor : Asia Society’s Iranian New Wave film series. November 2013 2013
- Member of Board and Associate Editor : Internationals Journal of International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (AIAC). January 15, 2013 2013
- Co-Convenor. Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation. 2013 2013
- Member of Editorial Board . The journal Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME). 2012 2012
- co-curator : Middle Eastern Film Festival. December 14, 2011 2011
- organizer, presenter, panelist : Asia Society’s Tribute to Jafar Panahi. December 14, 2011 2011
- short fiction judge : Women’s Voices Now- Middle East. December 14, 2011 2011
- Brainquake-- A Social Media Feminist initiative. 2010 - 2011 2010 - 2011
- International Society of Iranian Studies blog. 2010 - 2011 2010 - 2011
- Curator : Accented Cinemas of the Middle East. 2009 - 2010 2009 - 2010
- Curator : Twitter Film Festival 1 & 2. 2009 - 2010 2009 - 2010
- Chair : Chair Society Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies, MESA. 2008 - 2009 2008 - 2009
- Organizing Committee Member. Iranian Studies Conference . 2007 2007
- Chair. Middle East Caucus. Society for Cinema Studies. 2004 2004
- Conference Committee Member. Society for Iranian Studies. 2003 - 2004 2003 - 2004
- Chair and organizer . Author meets Critic panel on Hamid Dabashi's Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future . Emory University. April 2002 2002
- Associate Editor. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 2002 - 2016 2002 - 2016
- Chair and organizer for panels . "Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinemas” and "Art in Modernity” , Center for Iranian Research and Analysis Convention. Center for Iranian Research and Analysis . April 2001 2001
- Book Review Editor. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 2001 - 2006 2001 - 2006
- Board Member. Center for Iranian Research and Analysis. 2000 - 2003 2000 - 2003
- Board Member. Division of West Asian Languages . Modern Language Association (MLA). 2000 - 2005 2000 - 2005
- Convener. Series on Demographic Changes. Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs. 1998 1998
- Series Editor. Research Notes H-Net List . Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies. 1998 - 1999 1998 - 1999
- Member. American Studies Association. 1997 1997
- Member. Middle Eastern Studies Association. 1997 1997
- Member. Modern Languages Association. 1997 1997
- Member. Society for Cinema Studies. 1997 1997
- Member. Society for Iranian Studies. 1997 1997
- Moderator. H-Net List. Shaykhi, Babi And Baha'i Studies. 1997 1997
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Service to Duke
- Co-Convener. How to See the World: A Conversation with Nicholas Mirzoeff. Duke University. 2016 2016
- Co-Convener. Outrage fatigue, democracy, and activism in the age of information overload: A Conversation with Rahaf Harfoush. Duke University. 2016 2016
- Co-Convener. Beirut and Paris attacks on Social Media: A Conversation. Duke University. 2015 2015
- Co-Convener. Conference on Vico. Duke University. 2015 2015
- Collaborator. The After Oil School: Explorations and Experiments in the Future of Energy, Culture and Society. After Oil School, University of Alberta. 2015 2015
- Committee Member. Humanities Writ Large Steering Committee. Duke University. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Convener. FHI Residency & Speaker Series at Duke: Marxist Conservation Brennan & Ganguly. Duke University. 2015 2015
- Duke University. Committee for selection of the Frankel Fellowship. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Duke University. Committee for the Selection of the Boone Fellowship. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Duke University. Committee for the Selection of the Scott Fellowship. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Duke University. Committee for the selection of the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship . 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Duke University. Committee for the selection of the Price Fellowship. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Co-Convener. #Kobane: Feminism and Autonomy in the Rojava Revolution . Duke University. 2014 2014
- Co-Convener. Islamic Media: Technologies and the Sacred: Collective Research Project. AMES, Duke University. 2014 2014
- Co-Convener. Islamic Media: Technology and the Sacred . Duke University. 2014 2014
- Co-Convener. What happens to #Ferguson affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic filtering and Ferguson . Duke University. 2014 2014
- Duke University. AMES Tenure Committee. 2014 2014
- Duke University. Executive Committee of the Graduate School . 2014 - 2016 2014 - 2016
- AMES, Duke University. Islamic Studies Hiring Committee. 2013 - 2014 2013 - 2014
- Co-Convener. Islamic Media: Sense and Sensation . Duke University. 2013 2013
- Program in Literature (3rd year review). 2013 - 2014 2013 - 2014
- Duke University. Duke Digital Futures Provost Taskforce. 2009 - 2011 2009 - 2011
- Literature Department, Duke University. Graduate fellowship Committee, Program in Literature. 2009 2009
- Literature Department, Duke University. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Program in Literature. 2009 2009
- Women's Studies, Duke University. Women's Studies Visual Cultures Search Committee. 2009 2009
- Women's Studies, Duke University. Women’s Studies Tenure Committee. 2009 2009
- Graduate Job Placement Advisor. Program in Literature. Literature Department, Duke University. 2007 - 2010 2007 - 2010
- Literature Department, Duke University. Executive Committee Program in Literature. 2007 - 2009 2007 - 2009
- Duke University. Trans-cultural Humanities University Wide. 2006 - 2009 2006 - 2009
- Faculty Advisor. Graduate Job Placement. Literature Department, Duke University. 2005 2005
- Literature Department, Duke University. Graduate Admissions Commitee. 2005 - 2009 2005 - 2009
- Duke University. Film and Video Integration Committee. 2004 2004
- Faculty Advisor. Graduate Job Placement. Literature Department, Duke University. 2004 2004
- Literature Department, Duke University. Graduate Admissions Committee. 2004 - 2015 2004 - 2015
- Literature Department, Duke University. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. 2004 2004
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