Negar Mottahedeh

Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic working at the intersection of feminist theory and media studies. Her research on the use of film, photography, audio cassettes, and social media, by various social movements in Iranian history has been published by Stanford University Press, Syracuse University Press, Duke University Press, Wired, Salon.com, The Hill and The Observer. She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College. She has taught at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and in 2002 began teaching at Duke University, where she is Associate Professor in the Program in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.