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Mostafa Abedinifard
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
modern Iran; Iranian/Persianate studies through fiction, drama, poetry, cinema, andnonfiction
Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs
Research Methodology
Qualitative Research
historical research
life histories and autobiographies
media analysis
Publications
- Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique (2021)
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 53 (3), 406--423 - Persian ‘Rashti jokes’: modern Iran’s palimpsests of gheyrat-based masculinity (2019)
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 46 (4), 564--582 - Reply to Davies (2017)
HUMOR, 30 (2) - Ridicule, gender hegemony, and the disciplinary function of mainstream gender humour (2016)
Social Semiotics, 26 (3), 234--249 - Structural functions of the targeted joke: Iranian modernity and the Qazvini man as predatory homosexual (2016)
HUMOR, 29 (3) - Autobiographical comics: life writing in pictures (2014)
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 5 (4), 477--479 - Book review: The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK, and Global Race JokingWeaverSimonThe Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK, and Global Race JokingAshgate, Surrey, 2011, £55 hbk, (ISBN: 9781409420118), 215 pp. (2013)
Cultural Sociology, 7 (3), 389--391 - The Education of Women and The Vices of Men: Two Qajar Tracts (2013)
Iranian Studies, 47 (2), 355--360
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