Public Engagement

Bryn Mawr

On Bahman Farmanara’s 1974 Prince Ehtejab, for Politics/Letters

Bryn Mawr

On Iraj Pezeshkzad’s 1973 satirical novel, My Uncle Napoleon, for Public Books

Bryn Mawr

On Nella Larsen, Greta Garbo, and George Cukor’s Camille, for Modernism/modernity Print+

Bryn Mawr

On the Rise of Absurdly Demanding Job Ads in the Humanities, for The Chronicle of Higher Education

Dabashi, along with Martin Jay and Robert Kaufman, responds to Peter Gordon of Harvard University after his talk on Theodor Adorno’s concept of a “precarious happiness” at an event sponsored UC Berkeley’s Program in Critical Theory:

Media appearances

Interview with Jacke Wilson of The History of Literature Podcast, about Pardis Dabashi’s Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U of Chicago P, 2023). (January 22, 2024)

Interview with Kim Adams of humanities podcast, “High Theory,” about “What is Plot?” (January 4, 2024)

Interview with Shirin Jaafari of PRX’s and GBH’s “The World,” about the death of Iranian author, Iraj Pezeshkzad. (January 14, 2022)

Interview with John Plotz of humanities podcast, “Recall This Book,” about Iraj Pezeshkzad’s novel My Uncle Napoleon. (June 24, 2021)

Interview with Kim Adams of humanities podcast, “High Theory,” about Theodor Adorno’s concept of the “autonomous work of art”. (August 30, 2020)