Yalda Hamidi (She/Her/Hers) is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and faculty fellow for "Teaching Toward Social Justice" at Minnesota State University Mankato and a Ms. Committee of Scholars member. In her research, Yalda adopts an anti-racist and transnational feminist lens. In her article, "Politics of Location in Persepolis: The Social and Literary Construction of the Place, Space, and Belonging for Iranian Women in Persepolis versus Iran,” published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Yalda relies on a transnational feminist literary analysis to emphasize the necessity of politics of location in criticizing the histories of the nation, highlighting the role of trauma in the formation of Iranian feminism/s, and challenge the cultural and literary representation of Iran for the voices the graphic novel leaves behind. Yalda's next work, Cartography of Transnational Iranian Feminist Struggles, argues that the scene of the Transnational Iranian Feminism/s has at least four distinctive voices of multicultural, postcolonialist, queer and ethnic, and white feminism/s. This research provides decolonial methodologies for rhetorical listening to these voices. It strongly advocates for an anti-racist and social justice-oriented lens to address the gaps, retrieve the ghostly voices, and bring the margins of Iranian feminism/s into its center.

Other

Cultural Studies

Diaspora/Refugee Studies

Gender/Women's Studies

Iranian Studies

Iran

Transnational/ Middle Eastern/ Islamic Feminism/s

Middle Eastern Female Literature

Queer Of Color Critique

English (fluent)

Persian (native)

Arabic (elementary)