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Parisa Vaziri
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies
Klarman Hall, Room 217
pv248@cornell.edu
Educational Background
Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Overview
Parisa Vaziri received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Irvine in 2018. Her work engages legacies of Indian Ocean world slavery in the long durée through prisms of visual media. Her research overlaps interests in critical theory, black studies, Middle Eastern cultural production, postcolonial critiques of history, film theory, new media, philosophy, anthropology, and histories of displinary formation more generally. Her current project recovers articulations of blackness in Iranian visual culture, primarily through the media of experimental documentary and art cinema. She proposes film as a site of transmission that disrupts traditional periodization schemes and that elucidates problems of temporality and geography in orthodox narratives about the concept of race.
Courses taught
- COML: Race & Critical Theory
- COML: Antagonism
- NES: Race and Slavery, Old and Modern
- NES: Arabian Nights: Forbidden Sex
- FWS: Slow Time: Chronopolitics of Iranian Cinema
Departments/Programs
- Comparative Literature
- Near Eastern Studies
Graduate Fields
- Comparative Literature
Courses
Spring 2020
Fall 2020
Publications
“On ‘Saidiya’: Indian Ocean World Slavery and Blackness Beyond Horizon.” Qui Parle, vol. 28, no. 2, Dec. 2019
“Arb’ain and Bakhshu’s Lament: African Slavery in the Persian Gulf and the Violence of Cultural Form.” Antropologia: “Racial Questions: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Dynamics in Africa and the Middle East,” forthcoming.
“Pneumatics of Blackness: Nasir Taqvai’s Bad-i Jin and Modernism’s Anthropological Drive.” Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception. Edited by Hamid Rezaei Yazdi and Arshavez Mozafari. Routledge, 2018
“Windridden: On the Nonvalue of Nonidentification.” Liquid Blackness, vol. 3, no. 6, 2017, pp. 66-79.
“Blackness and the Metaethics of the Object.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 29, 2016.