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Negar Mottahedeh

Professor of Literature
Literature
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  

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Bahram Beyzaie (1938–2025)

Journal article Iranian Studies · April 2026 Full text Cite

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

Reel Evil

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

Unruly voices and Narratives

Journal article · 2016 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

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

Rethinking Gender in Contemporary Iranian Art and Cinema

Journal article Iranian Studies · July 2012 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

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 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 Work Cite

Karbala Drag Kings and Queens

Journal article The Drama Review · 2005 Cite

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

Journal article Middle East Research and Information Project · September 2004 Featured Work Link to item 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

After-Images of a Revolution

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

'Turbulent'

Journal article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Link to item Cite

'Women of Allah'

Journal article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Link to item Cite

'Rapture'

Journal article RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW · 2003 Link to item 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

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