Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor
Department of Theory and History of Art Design
Photography Department
Rhode Island School of Design
EMPLOYMENT
July 2024–present:
Associate Professor
Department of Theory and History of Art and Design
Affiliate Faculty (since March 2025), Photography Department
Rhode Island School of Design
2017–2024:
Assistant Professor
Department of Theory and History of Art and Design
Rhode Island School of Design
EDUCATION
2014–2017:
PhD in Comparative Literature and Society and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University in the City of New York
Dissertation: “‘The Clarity of Meaning’: Contemporary Iranian Art and the Cosmopolitan Ethics of Reading in Art History.”
Committee Members:
Alexander Alberro
Joaquin Barriendos
Hamid Dabashi (Academic Advisor)
Sudipta Kaviraj (Chair)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
2010–2013:
MPhil in Comparative Literature and Society and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University in the City of New York
Committee Members and Fields:
Alexander Alberro, Art History and Historiography
Hamid Dabashi, Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Sudipta Kaviraj, Philosophy of History and Historiography
2008–2010:
MA in Art History
Primary focus: Contemporary Art and Theory; Secondary focus: Islamic Art
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2004–2007:
MFA in Photography
Honar (Art) University, Tehran, Iran
2000–2004:
BFA in Graphic Design
Sooreh University, Tehran, Iran
PUBLICATIONS
2023:
“Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn.” Co-written with Dr. Joshua I. Cohen (CUNY Graduate School) and Dr. Vazira F-Y Zamindar (Brown University). ARTMargins, vol. 12, no. 2 (special issue on Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn), edited by Joshua I. Cohen, Vazira F-Y Zamindar, and Foad Torshizi, June 2023, pp. 3–17, MIT Press.
2023:
“Loquacious Objects: Contemporary Iranian Art, Auto-translation, and the Readings of Benevolence.” Grey Room, vol. 90, no. 4, Winter 2023, pp. 94–118, MIT Press.
2022:
“هنر معاصر ایران، و پرسش ترجمه” (“Contemporary Iranian Art and the Question of Translation”). One Hundred Years with Visual Arts, edited by Hasan Mourizinejad, Iran Institute for Development of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture, 2022, pp. 317–336 In Persian.
2021:
“The Affective Feminism of Ghazaleh Hedayat.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 41, no. 1, 2021, pp. 106–121, Duke University Press.
2016:
“باربد گلشیری: علیه کلانْروایتهای هنـر” (“Barbad Golshiri: Against Grand Narratives of Art”). Herfeh Honarmand, no. 61, 2016, pp. 162–173, in Persian.
2016:
“کارِ سیاسی؛ گفتگوی مجید اخگر، ایمان افسریان، فوآد ترشیزی و باربد گلشیری درباره ی هنر و سیاست” (“Political Work: A roundtable with Majid Akhgar, Iman Afsarian, Foad Torshizi, and Barbad Golshiri about Art and Politics”). Herfeh Honarmand, no. 60, 2016, pp. 67–77, in Persian.
2016:
“زمانِاکنون و اشباح ِآن: چند نکته دربارهی نـمایشگاه کارنامه: فرهنگ دیداری کودکان ایران ۱۳۶۰-۱۳۳۰”
(“Jetztzeit and its Ghosts: Some Notes on [the exhibition] Karnameh: Visual Culture of Iranian Children 1950–1980, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art”). Herfeh Honarmand, no. 60, 2016, pp. 183–184, in Persian. Co-authored with Shervin Taheri, in Persian.
2012:
“The Unveiled Apple: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Limits of Inter-discursive Interpretation of Contemporary Iranian Art.” Iranian Studies, vol. 45, no. 4, 2012, pp. 549–569, Routledge.
2012:
“Fragmented Visual Perception and the State of Emergency: Contemporary Art as Critique of Late Capitalism.” Alef, vol. 89, no. 4, 2012, pp. 118–121, in Persian, translated from English.
2007:
Translation into Persian: “Video Art,” written by Frank Popper. Faslname-ye Honar (Art Quarterly), 2007, pp. 202–221. Published by the Center for Art Research and Advanced Studies, Iran Ministry of Culture.
2005:
“Photography: Retelling/Reproducing the Real.” Bulletin of International Assembly on Art and Globalization, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005, in Persian.
SPECIAL ISSUES
2023:
Co-editor of ARTMargins special issue “Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn,” vol. 12, no. 2, June 2023, MIT Press, 126 pages. With Dr. Joshua I. Cohen (CUNY Grad Center and CCNY) and Dr. Vazira F-Y Zamindar (Brown).
BOOK REVIEW
2018:
Review of Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon, written by Chad Elias. Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, 2018, pp. 343–346.