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Tahereh Aghdasifar

  • Assistant Professor of Gender & Feminist Studies; Gender & Feminist Studies Field Group
Tahereh Aghdasifar has long curly dark hair and wears a black top while standing outdoors.
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Tahereh_Aghdasifar@pitzer.edu
Office Location

Scott Hall 206

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Bio

Tahereh Aghdasifar is Assistant Professor of Gender & Feminist Studies at Pitzer College. She specializes in queer of color critique, political economy, and performance studies to focus on questions of sociality and opacity. Her current book project develops a theory of refraction reading anti-representational aesthetics of dispossession and displacement to build a collective materialist politics. Her scholarship is published in GLQ, Women & Performance, and A Love Letter to "This Bridge Called my Back," among others, and has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly The Woodrow Wilson) Mellon Fellowship, the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, and the American Association of University Women.

  • PhD, Emory University, Cultural Studies
  • MA, Georgia State University, Women's Studies
  • BA, Georgia State University