I'm an international student, and my research relates to selfhood and martyrdom in Shi'i esoteric epistemology. I am interested in how gender helps to navigate the question of subjectivity through the traditional theatre of the ta'ziyeh (passion play). The delicate dance between character, actor, and audience in the ta'ziyeh provides a useful metric through which to interpret its influence on post-revolutionary Iranian film. I have been developing my course on mass incarceration for some years now, and I am interested in demonstrating the global structures of power that incarceration draws on and expands.
Courses Typically Taught:
- Writing 60
Themes Typically Taught:
- Mass Incarceration: Black Feminist Scholar-Activist Conversations
Course Description:
- We will focus on the perspectives of Angela Davis and her contemporaries, and will prioritize close-reading and analyzing the main arguments, research methods, rhetorical strategies, and methodologies that are essential to the rigor and economy of Davis’s academic prose.
Textbooks Needed:
- Angela Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Email: yrahimi@uci.edu