Scholars@Duke

• Publications & Artistic Works
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  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 <i>Sensorium Commune</i>.” 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

    • Bassiri, N. R. “Brain.” Somatosphere, March 18, 2014.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • AMES 316: Introduction to Critical Theory 2023
  • CULANTH 303S: Theory Today 2023
  • CULANTH 314: Introduction to Critical Theory 2023
  • CULANTH 890S: Advanced Selected Topics 2023
  • ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2023
  • GSF 301S: Theory Today 2023
  • GSF 314: Introduction to Critical Theory 2023
  • HISTORY 650S: History of Mental Illness 2023
  • LIT 301S: Theory Today 2023
  • LIT 314: Introduction to Critical Theory 2023
  • LIT 650S: History of Mental Illness 2023
  • LIT 890S: Seminars in Literature 2023
  • NEUROSCI 650S: History of Mental Illness 2023
  • PSY 650S: History of Mental Illness 2023
  • ROMST 314: Introduction to Critical Theory 2023
  • CULANTH 303S: Theory Today 2022
  • CULANTH 890S: Advanced Selected Topics 2022
  • ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2022
  • GSF 301S: Theory Today 2022
  • LIT 301S: Theory Today 2022
  • LIT 393: Research Independent Study 2022
  • LIT 496: Honors Thesis II 2022
  • LIT 890S: Seminars in Literature 2022
  • CULANTH 303S: Theory Today 2021
  • ETHICS 89S: Special Topic: First-Year Seminar in Ethics 2021
  • GSF 89S: First-Year Seminar in Gender Studies 2021
  • GSF 301S: Theory Today 2021
  • HISTORY 590S: Topics in History Seminar 2021
  • LIT 89S: First-Year Seminar 2021
  • LIT 301S: Theory Today 2021
  • LIT 393: Research Independent Study 2021
  • LIT 495: Honors Thesis I 2021
  • LIT 590S: Special Topics in Literature 2021
  • NEUROSCI 590S: Special Topics in Neuroscience 2021
  • SOCIOL 89S: First-Year Seminar 2021

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