Duke the Program In Literature

  • Negar Mottahedeh

  • Associate Professor
  • Literature
  • 125C Friedl Building
  • Campus Box 90670
  • Phone: +1 919 681 3461
  • Fax: (919) 684-3598
  • Curriculum Vitae

  • Specialties

    • Cultural Studies
    • Film Theory & History
    • Critical Theory

  • Research Summary

    Social Media, New Media, Photography, Comparative World Cinemas, and Middle Eastern Studies

  • Research Description

    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. 'ABDU'L-BAHA'S JOURNEY WEST: THE COURSE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY, on the impact of the early 20th century Iranian reformer on the emergent civil rights and suffrage movements in America and on his vision for a lasting peace only three years before the outbreak of WWI, will be published by Palgrave in April 2013.

  • Current Projects

    http://negarpontifiles.blogspot.com/, http://twitter.com/negaratduke

  • Areas of Interest

    Middle East, North Africa,

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • University of Minnesota,
      • 1998
      • MA,
      • University of Minnesota,
      • 1994
      • BA,
      • International Relations,
      • Mount Holyoke College,
      • 1990
      • Other,
      • New College, Oxford University,
      • 1988

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • “Filmmaking in Iran” interview,
      • KBIA 91.3 Mid-Missouri Public Radio,
      • December 2012
      • Research in Practice Program,
      • August, 2010
      • Latifeh Yarshater Award for REPRESENTING THE UNPRESENTABLE,
      • Persian Heritage Foundation,
      • August 2008
      • Foundation for Iranian Studies,
      • Displaced Allegories: Iranian Cinema 1980-2000,
      • November 2007
      • CIT ipod course design,
      • December 2006
      • Faculty Fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute:,
      • November 2005
      • "Unearthing World Film Industries",
      • The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation,
      • 2003-2005
      • Faculty Fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute:,
      • November 2004
      • Arts and Sciences Annual Research Grant,
      • May 2004
      • Knowledges and Its Institutions,
      • John Hope Franklin Humanities Inst.,
      • April 2004
      • The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation,
      • April 2003
      • "Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Articulating the Local and the Global",
      • Rockefeller Foundation Residency Program, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey,
      • 2001-2002
      • "Technology and Representation",
      • Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women Post doctoral fellowship, Browne University,
      • 2001-2002
      • Postdoctoral fellowship in Women and Gender Studies and History at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN,
      • Andrew Mellon,
      • 2001-2003
      • Best Dissertation of the Year Award,
      • Foundation for Iranian Studies,
      • 1998-1999
      • Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Dissertation Grant,
      • 1996-1997
      • Web Development Project Grant,
      • University of Minnesota Teaching Assistant,
      • 0 1996
      • Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies,
      • 0 1996
      • Harold Leonard Fellowship in Film Research,
      • 1995-1996
      • MacArthur Pre-Dissertation Field Research Fellowship,
      • 1995-1996
      • Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society Departmental Fellowship,
      • 1991-1995
      • Norwegian Government Fellowship for Graduate Study Abroad,
      • 1991-1995

  • Selected Publications

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