Pardis Dabashi is Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College.
Author of Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, Fall 2023) as well as articles on modern literature, film, and issues in higher education.
Pardis Dabashi’s articles, interviews, and events directed toward a public audience.
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I do not recall ever having said I disliked plot . . . but that I simply could do nothing about it.
– Modernist author, Djuna Barnes, to friend and editor, Emily Coleman, August 19, 1935, MSS 105, series 1.2, folder 11, Emily Coleman Papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, Newark, Delaware.
(qtd by Pardis Dabashi, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel, forthcoming, University of Chicago Press)