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Negar Mottahedeh

Negar Mottahedeh

Professor of Literature
Literature
negar@duke.edu
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Office hours By appointment negar@duke.edu  

Selected Publications

Not Feminism, Human Solidarity: Qurrat al-'~Ayn Tahirih in Early Historical Drama

Journal Article Hawwa · January 1, 2023 Qurrat al-'Ayn Tahirih has long been associated with feminism and early agitation for women’s rights in Iran and elsewhere. These articulations fly in the face of her repeated construction in the historical work of her contemporaries as the condition of th ... Full text Cite

Soundscapes of the iranian revolution

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · July 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Images of an undocumented revolution: Interview with claudine mulard

Journal Article Journal of Middle East Women's Studies · July 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Whisper Tapes Kate Millett in Iran

Book · February 5, 2019 Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the women's protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Millett's historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian ... ... Open Access Cite

Reel Evil

Journal Article Journal of Cinema and Media Studies · June 1, 2018 Full text Cite

The people: The #selfie's urform

Chapter · January 1, 2017 The chapter considers the ways in which the selfie is connected, in its quotidianness, to private life. In its daily co-articulation and its challenge to objects invested with power, it upends contemporary notions of the state, of government, of capital, o ... Full text Cite

Tehran in Cinema

Chapter · 2016 Cite

Unruly voices and Narratives

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

A Revolutionary Meme

Other Cinema Journal: In Media Res · August 2015 Link to item Cite

#iranelection

Other The Page 99 Test · July 2015 Link to item Cite

A Revolution of Flesh and Data

Other Duke Magazine · July 2015 Link to item Cite

Political Consciousness of a Selfie

Internet Publication · July 2015 Parts 1 & 2. ... Link to item Cite

Anatomy of a Tweet

Journal Article The Immanent Frame: a journal for the SSRC · February 2015 Link to item Cite

How #Iranelection transformed the Public Sphere

Other IslamiCommentary: Forum for Public Scholarship · June 16, 2014 Link to item Cite

How #Iranelection Transformed the Public Sphere

Journal Article IslamiCommentary: Forum for Public Scholarship · June 2014 Link to item Cite

Introduction

Book · April 3, 2013 Full text Cite

‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity (Palgrave, April 2013)

Other · April 2013 "Born in 1844 in Persia (Iran), ’Abdu’l-Bahá is best known as the eldest son of Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí Núrí, Bahá’u’lláh (1817-1892), the founder of the Bahá’í Faith. Negar Mottahedeh’s edited volume of specially commissioned essays marking the centenary of ’Ab ... Cite

Review of Pedram Khosronejad's 'Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom, and National Identity'

Other Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia · 2013 Cite

Rethinking Gender in Contemporary Iranian Art and Cinema

Journal Article Iranian Studies · July 2012 Cite

Allah-o-Akhbar

Other ArteEast Quarterly C+: The Iran Issue. · April 2012 http://arteeast.org/pages/artenews/Cplus/992/ April 2012 ... Cite

Iranian Women in Protest 1953, 1978, 2009

Journal Article Scholar and Feminist Online: Feminist Media Theory · 2012 Link to item Cite

Green is the New Green: Social Media and the Post Election Crisis in Iran 2009

Journal Article New Politics · July 2010 http://newpolitics.mayfirst.org/fromthearchives?nid=346 ... Link to item Cite

Brainquake Not Boobquake

Journal Article Religion Dispatches · May 2010 http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/2549/brainquake_not_boobquake ... Cite

Brainquake Not Boobquake

Other Religion Dispatches · May 2010 Cite

Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009

Journal Article Frontline: Tehran Bureau · 2010 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/07/picturing-ourselves-1953-1979-and-2009.html ... Cite

Iranian Women in Protest

Journal Article Equilibri Magazine (Italy) · 2010 Cite

Iranian Cinema in the Twentieth Century: A Sensory History

Journal Article Iranian Studies · September 2009 This essay addresses itself to the century long history of cinema in Iran, focusing on the history of the senses as they combine with and are extended by film technologies. It argues that Khomeini's aim was to produce a transformed and Shi'ite Iran ... Full text Cite

Review of Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'Abbas Kiarostami'

Other Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television · August 2009 Full text Cite

Picturing Ourselves: 1953, 1979 and 2009

Other Frontline: Tehran Bureau · July 2009 Link to item Cite

Review of Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum

Journal Article Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television · 2009 Cite

Collection and Recollection: On Studying the Early History of Motion Pictures in Iran

Journal Article Early Popular Visual Culture · June 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Woman is Color: on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Gabbeh

Chapter · May 2008 English/Spanish ... Cite

Negative Refractions: Recent Feminist Writing on the Middle East

Journal Article Women’s Studies Quarterly: The Global Intimate · 2006 Cite

The New Iranian Cinema

Chapter · 2006 Cite

New Iranian cinema: 1982-present

Chapter · December 8, 2005 Cite

Karbala Drag Kings and Queens

Journal Article The Drama Review · 2005 Cite

Body: Female: Iran

Chapter · 2005 Cite

Karbala Drag Kings and Queens

Journal Article The Drama Review: Ta’ziyeh · 2005 Featured Publication Cite

Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War

Journal Article Middle East Research and Information Project · September 2004 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Where are Kiarostami’s Women?

Chapter · 2004 Featured Publication Cite

Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War

Journal Article MIddle East Research and Information Project · 2004 Link to item Cite

'Life is Color!' Towards a Transnational Feminist Analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'Gabbeh'

Journal Article Signs · 2004 Featured Publication Special Issue on film feminisms ... Cite

After-Images of a Revolution

Journal Article Radical History Review · March 1, 2003 Full text Cite

'Turbulent'

Journal Article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Cite

'Women of Allah'

Journal Article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Cite

'Rapture'

Journal Article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Cite

Bahram Bayzai'sMaybe...Some Other Time: The un-Present-able Iran

Journal Article Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies · 2000 Full text Cite

“Bahram Bayza‘i’s Maybe Some Other Time: The un-Present-able Iran”

Other Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies · 1999 Cite

The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation

Journal Article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 1998 Cite

The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn Tahirah's Unveiling and the Iranian Massacre of the Babis

Journal Article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · 1998 Cite