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Amy Motlagh
University of California, Davis
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
One Shields Ave
Davis CA 95616
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Iranian Studies
Nationalism
Persian
Transnationalism
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Egypt
Iran
Specialties
Gender & Natlsm
Mod Persian Lit
Racial Thinking And Histories Of Enslavement
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Persian (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2009 | Near Eastern Studies | Princeton University
MFA | 2001 | Creative Writing | New York U
BA | 1998 | English Lit | Pomona Col
Abstracts
Dismembering and Re-membering the Beloved in Reza Shah’s Legal Reforms and S?deq Hed?yat’s The Blind Owl Of Gardens and Graveyards: Examining Heterotopic Space in Postrevolutionary Iranian Fiction This Is Not Justice: Film as a Means of Extrajudicial Appeal in Contemporary Iran