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Nima Bassiri

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature
Literature
101 Friedl, 1316 Campus Drive, Box 90270, Durham, NC 27708
101 Friedl, 1316 Campus Drive, Campus Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


www.nimabassiri.com

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature · 2024 - Present Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of Literature · 2018 - Present Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published April 29, 2024
Does Madness Pay? New Book Explores Madness and Enterprise
Published April 11, 2024
Spring Books by Duke Authors: Meditations, Baseball, Rebels and Stomach Pains

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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 Cite

Epileptic 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. ... Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of California, Berkeley · 2010 Ph.D.

External Links


Personal Website