Research Interests for Negar Mottahedeh

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.

Keywords:

Iranian Cinema, Social Media, New Media, Photography, Iranian history, World Cinema, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Post Colonial Theory, Middle Eastern Studies

Current projects:

http://negarpontifiles.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/negaratduke

Areas of Interest:

Middle East, North Africa,

Representative Publications   (search)

1. N. Mottahedeh, Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran (2008), Syracuse University Press [html]
2. N. Mottahedeh, Where are Kiarostami's women?, Alphabet City (2003) (9,400 words.)
3. N. Mottahedeh, Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema (2008), Duke University Press [books.php3]
4. N. Mottahedeh, "Life is Color!" Towards a transnational feminist analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh, Signs (2004) (Special Issue on film feminisms.)
5. N. Mottahedeh, Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War, MIddle East Research and Information Project (September 2004) [html]
6. N. Mottahedeh, Karbala Drag Kings and Queens, The Drama Review (Winter, 2005) (73-85.)
7. N. Mottahedeh, “Collection and Recollection: on studying the early history of the motion pictures in Iran”, Early Popular Visual Culture (June, 2008)