The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

Education:
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1998
M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1994
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, 1990

Curriculum Vitae

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

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

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] .

Research Description: 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