Negar Mottahedeh, Assistant Professor, Literature
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Teaching (Fall 2008):
- LIT 113.01, MOVIE WORLDS
Synopsis
- FRDL Bldg 216, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
- LIT 210S.01, BASIC CONCEPTS IN CINEMA
Synopsis
- East Duke 204D, Tu 01:15 PM-03:45 PM
- Education:
PhD University of Minnesota 1998 MA University of Minnesota 1994 BA 1990 Other New College, Oxford University 1988
- Specialties:
- Cultural Studies
- Research Interests: Comparative World Cinemas, and Middle Eastern Studies
Assistant professor of Literature, received her Ph.D. from the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Her current research and writing focuses on emergent cinematic codes in contemporary film cultures. Her two forthcoming books are on Iranian 19th visual culture and contemporary Iranian Cinema.
- Areas of Interest:
- Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Asia
- Representative Publications
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- N. Mottahedeh, Female Body as Metaphor, in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Accepted, 2005) (2 encyclopedia entries, 6,000 words.) .
- N. Mottahedeh, The New Iranian Cinema, in Traditions in World Cinema, edited by L. Badley, S. Schneider and R.B. Palmer (Accepted, forthcoming), Edinburgh University Press (4,500 words.) .
- N. Mottahedeh, Christine Jeff's Rain: Universality and Narrative Displacement in Cinema, World Order Magazine, vol. 35 no. 1 (Spring 2004) .
- N. Mottahedeh, After Images of a Revolution: On the Work of Shirin Neshat and Gita Hashemi, Radical History Review, vol. 86 (Spring, 2003), pp. 183-190 .
- N. Mottahedeh, Karbala Drag Kings and Queens, The Drama Review (2003) (6,000 words.) .
- Hamid Naficy, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History" by Nasrin Rahimieh, Iranian Studies (2002) (1500 words.) .