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Negar Mottahedeh, Assistant Professor, Literature

Contact Info: 

Office Location:	Art Museum 017
Office Phone:	+1 919 681 3461
Email Address:

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)

• 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

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. She is completing a manuscript on contemporary Iranian film.

Areas of Interest:

Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Asia

Keywords:

Middle East • North Africa • Eastern Asia • Iran • Film • Literature

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Mottahedeh, N, Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran (2008), Syracuse University Press [html]
2. Mottahedeh, N, Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema (2008), Duke University Press [books.php3]
3. Mottahedeh, N, 'Life is Color!' Towards a Transnational Feminist Analysis of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'Gabbeh', Signs, vol. 30 no. 1 (2004), pp. 1403-1426, University of Chicago Press (Special Issue on film feminisms.) [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, vol. 6 no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 103-120, Informa UK Limited [doi]