| Education:
- PhD, University of Minnesota, 1998
- MA, University of Minnesota, 1994
- BA, Mount Holyoke College, 1990
- Other, New College, Oxford University, 1988
Research Interests:
Negar Mottahedeh is Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies. She received her
Ph.D. from the department of Cultural Studies
and Comparative Literature at the University of
Minnesota in 1998. In 2008, Duke University Press published her book on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema entitled: DISPLACED ALLEGORIES. Her first book REPRESENTING THE UNPRESENTABLE on visual history and reform in Iran from the 19th C to the present was published in 2008 by Syracuse University Press. 'ABDU'L-BAHA'S JOURNEY WEST: THE COURSE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY, on the impact of the early 20th century Iranian reformer on the emergent civil rights and suffrage movements in America and on his vision for a lasting peace only three years before the outbreak of WWI, will be published by Palgrave in April 2013. Representative Publications (More Publications)
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Books
- N. Mottahedeh. Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Syracuse University Press, 2008 . [html]
- N. Mottahedeh. Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press, 2008 . [books.php3]
Articles in a Journal
- N. Mottahedeh. "Where are Kiarostami's women?." Alphabet City (2003). 9,400 words
- N. Mottahedeh. ""Life is Color!" Towards a transnational feminist analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh." Signs (2004). Special Issue on film feminisms
- N. Mottahedeh. "Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War." MIddle East Research and Information Project (September 2004). [html]
- N. Mottahedeh. "Karbala Drag Kings and Queens." The Drama Review (Winter, 2005). 73-85
- N. Mottahedeh. "“Collection and Recollection: on studying the early history of the motion pictures in Iran”." Early Popular Visual Culture (June, 2008).
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