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Amy Motlagh

University of California, Davis, Comparative Literature, Faculty Member

American University in Cairo, English and Comparative Literature, Faculty Member

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Books by Amy Motlagh

Chapter 3 Ain’t I a Woman? Domesticity’s Other (from Burying the Beloved: Gender, Realism and Reform in Modern Iran [Stanford UP, 2012])

Papers by Amy Motlagh

Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World, 8-9 December 2016, University of New South Wales, Sydney.tiff

by Amy Motlagh and Laetitia Nanquette

For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchan... more For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchange of cultures. However, the contemporary focus on its politics tends to obfuscate how Iran continues to contribute to the global circulation of ideas and cultural products. The success of Iranian cinema globally is a key example reminding us of the connectedness of Iranian culture to the world. This symposium will study how Iranian local/global culture dynamically exchanges with the world.

Translating Race: Simin Daneshvar’s Negotiation of Blackness

Iran Namag, 2020

"Black Light, White Revolution: Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation in Galway Kinnell’s Cold War Writings on Iran"

Towards a Theory of Iranian American Life Writing

MELUS, 2008

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Autobiography and Authority in the Writings of the Iranian Diaspora

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East, 2011

Book Chapters by Amy Motlagh

"What Kind of Crisis? Marriage and Masculinity in Contemporary Iranian Cinema." Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Modern Marriage Crises, Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Reviews by Amy Motlagh

Words Not Swords: Iranian Women and the Freedom of Movement by Farzaneh Milani (Book Review)

Forugh Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran, ed. by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh (Book Review)

Interviews by Amy Motlagh

Child of the Revolution: Sara Dolatabadi and the Aesthetics of Memory

ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2010

Translations by Amy Motlagh

The Space Between Us by Zoya Pirzad (Tr. by Amy Motlagh)

Essays by Amy Motlagh

"Bayn al-ahdath" (Between the acts), Amkenah, July 2014.

Edited Journals by Amy Motlagh

ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics 35 "New Paradigms in the Study of Modern 'Middle Eastern' Literatures"

Blog posts by Amy Motlagh

"Who Writes Iran?"

Podcast by Amy Motlagh

The Story of Iran

Chapter 3 Ain’t I a Woman? Domesticity’s Other (from Burying the Beloved: Gender, Realism and Reform in Modern Iran [Stanford UP, 2012])

Symposium Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World, 8-9 December 2016, University of New South Wales, Sydney.tiff

by Amy Motlagh and Laetitia Nanquette

For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchan... more For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchange of cultures. However, the contemporary focus on its politics tends to obfuscate how Iran continues to contribute to the global circulation of ideas and cultural products. The success of Iranian cinema globally is a key example reminding us of the connectedness of Iranian culture to the world. This symposium will study how Iranian local/global culture dynamically exchanges with the world.

Translating Race: Simin Daneshvar’s Negotiation of Blackness

Iran Namag, 2020

"Black Light, White Revolution: Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation in Galway Kinnell’s Cold War Writings on Iran"

Towards a Theory of Iranian American Life Writing

MELUS, 2008

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Autobiography and Authority in the Writings of the Iranian Diaspora

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East, 2011

"What Kind of Crisis? Marriage and Masculinity in Contemporary Iranian Cinema." Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Modern Marriage Crises, Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Words Not Swords: Iranian Women and the Freedom of Movement by Farzaneh Milani (Book Review)

Forugh Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran, ed. by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh (Book Review)

Child of the Revolution: Sara Dolatabadi and the Aesthetics of Memory

ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2010

The Space Between Us by Zoya Pirzad (Tr. by Amy Motlagh)

"Bayn al-ahdath" (Between the acts), Amkenah, July 2014.

ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics 35 "New Paradigms in the Study of Modern 'Middle Eastern' Literatures"

"Who Writes Iran?"

The Story of Iran