Pardis Dabashi

Pardis Dabashi is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program (MECANA) and the Comparative Literature Program. She teaches courses in twentieth-century literature, film studies, Middle East studies, and theory.

In the four years between graduating from Columbia and starting her doctoral studies in Boston, Dabashi lived in Paris, where she attended L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq as well as L’École Philippe Gaulier. She also holds a certificate from the Lecoq School’s Laboratoire de l’étude de mouvement.

Her academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Early Popular Visual Culture, Film Quarterly, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Public Books, Politics/Letters, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Arizona Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of The New William Faulkner Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and the “Visualities” forum on Modernism/modernity Print+. She is the Past Program Chair of the Modernist Studies Association.

Her first book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel, studies the status of plot in the modernist novel and the classical Hollywood cinema. It was released with the University of Chicago Press in November 2023. It received the 2024 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize.