Field of Interest: Comparative Literature, Gender and Diaspora Studies, Iranian Cinema, Persian Literature
Email Address: amotlagh@ucdavis.edu
Amy Motlagh
Amy Motlagh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East and South Asian Studies and the inaugural Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature at UC Davis. Her first book, Burying the Beloved: Realism and Reform in Modern Iran (Stanford University Press), focused on the connections between civil law, prose fiction, and gender in twentieth-century Iran. Motlagh’s forthcoming book Color Blind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora critically examines the cultural history of Blackness in Iran and the Iranian diaspora through literature and cinema.
