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Negar Mottahedeh, Professor of Literature

Negar Mottahedeh
Office Location:  125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Office Phone:  +1 919 684 1968
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   https://negarmottahedeh.squarespace.com

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Lit 320s.01, Social movements/social media Synopsis
    Friedl bdg 225, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 247S.01, AMES 318S.01, ICS 320S.01, ISS 323S.01, LATAMER 320S.01, RIGHTS 323S.01, VMS 323S.01)
  • Lit 612s.01, Theories of the image Synopsis
    White hall 106, Tu 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
    (also cross-listed as CINE 612S.01, CULANTH 500S.01, GERMAN 512S.01, ROMST 612S.01, VMS 612S.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • Lit 80s.01, Sp top: intro to lit Synopsis
    Friedl bdg 102, TuTh 06:15 PM-07:30 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 89S.01, AMES 80S.01, GERMAN 90S.01, ROMST 89S.02)
  • Lit 320s.01, Social movements/social media Synopsis
    Friedl bdg 225, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 247S.01, AMES 318S.01, ICS 320S.01, ISS 323S.01, LATAMER 320S.01, RIGHTS 323S.01, VMS 323S.01)
Education:

  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1998
  • M.A. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1994
  • B.A. Mount Holyoke College 1990

Specialties:

Film Theory & History
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Critical Theory
Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Mottahedeh, N. Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Syracuse University Press, 2008. [html]
  2. Mottahedeh, N. Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema.  Duke University Press, 2008. [books.php3]
  3. Mottahedeh, N. "'Life is Color!' Towards a Transnational Feminist Analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'Gabbeh'."  Special Issue on film feminisms Signs 30:1 (2004): 1403-1426. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Mottahedeh, N. "Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War." Middle East Research and Information Project  (September, 2004). [html]
  5. Mottahedeh, N. "Collection and Recollection: On Studying the Early History of Motion Pictures in Iran." Early Popular Visual Culture 6:2 (June, 2008): 103-120. [doi]
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