Assistant professor of Literature at Duke, Negar Mottahedeh received her Ph.D. from the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Her current research and writing focuses on emergent cinematic codes in contemporary film cultures. Her two forthcoming books are on Iranian 19th century visual culture and contemporary Iranian Cinema. Her publications include:

The New Iranian Cinema: Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006);

Christine Jeff's Rain: Universality and Narrative Displacement in Cinema." World Order Magazine 35.1 (Spring 2004);

After Images of a Revolution: On the Work of Shirin Neshat and Gita Hashemi," Radical History Review 86 (Spring, 2003): 183-190.