Nima Bassiri | Scholars@Duke

Nima Bassiri
Assistant Professor of Literature

I am an intellectual historian of the human sciences and currently an assistant professor at Duke University, where I teach in the Program in Literature, Duke’s interdisciplinary humanities, cultural studies, and critical theory department.

More information can be found here: https://sites.duke.edu/nimabassiri/

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

101 Friedl, 1316 Campus Drive, Box 90270, Durham, NC 27708
101 Friedl, 1316 Campus Drive, Campus Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
nima.bassiri@duke.edu
Personal website
academia.edu site

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley 2010
- M.A., University of California - Berkeley 2003
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Bassiri, N., and David Bates, eds. Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural Subject. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
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- Academic Articles
  - BASSIRI, N. I. M. A. “WHAT KIND OF HISTORY IS THE HISTORY OF THE SELF? NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM THE HISTORY OF MIND AND BRAIN MEDICINE.” Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 02 (August 2019): 653–65. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479244317000403.
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  - Bassiri, Nima. “Freud and the Matter of the Brain: On the Rearrangements of Neuropsychoanalysis.” Critical Inquiry 40, no. 1 (September 2013): 83–108. https://doi.org/10.1086/673227.
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  - Bassiri, Nima. “The Brain and the Unconscious Soul in Eighteenth-Century Nervous Physiology: Robert Whytt’s Sensorium Commune.” Journal of the History of Ideas 74, no. 3 (2013): 425–48. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2013.0019.
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  - Bassiri, Nima. “Material translations in the Cartesian brain.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43, no. 1 (March 2012): 244–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.10.017.
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- Book Sections
  - Bassiri, N. R. “Epileptic Insanity and Personal Identity: John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the Neuropathic Self.” In Plasticity and Pathology On the Formation of the Neural Subject. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  - Bassiri, N. R. “Who Are We, Then, If We Are Indeed Our Brains? Reconsidering a Critical Approach to Neuroscience.” In Neuroscience and Critique Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. Routledge, 2015.
- Digital Publications
  - Hodson, Richard, Emily Sohn, Sarah DeWeerdt, Simon Makin, Sedeer el-Showk, Shamini Bundell, Lauren Gravitz, et al. “The brain.” NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, July 25, 2019.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Digital Publications

Recent Courses