Negar Mottahedeh, Professor of Literature

Office Location:	125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 1968
Email Address:
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:

Specialties:: Film Theory & History
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies
Critical Theory

Representative Publications (More Publications)

Mottahedeh, N. Representing the Unpresentable: Images of Reform from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Syracuse University Press, 2008. [html]
Mottahedeh, N. Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press, 2008. [books.php3]
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]
Mottahedeh, N. "Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War." Middle East Research and Information Project (September, 2004). [html]
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]