Overview
www.nimabassiri.com
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature
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2024 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Literature
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2018 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
WHAT KIND OF HISTORY IS THE HISTORY OF THE SELF? NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM THE HISTORY OF MIND AND BRAIN MEDICINE
Journal Article Modern Intellectual History · August 2019 In a recent forum contribution to the American Historical Review on the relationship between history and biology, Lynn Hunt proposed that the future of academic scholarship devoted to exploring the origins and development ... Full text CiteEpileptic Insanity and Personal Identity: John Hughlings Jackson and the Formations of the Neuropathic Self
Chapter · 2016 The essays collected here were presented at the workshop Plasticity and Pathology: History and Theory of Neural Subjects at the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. ... CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of California, Berkeley ·
2010
Ph.D.