Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh, Ph.D.

Academic Interests

Commons Groups

MLA

Recent Commons Activity

joined the group 2022 MLA Convention
joined the group 2020 MLA Convention

About

I am a full-time lecturer at UCLA in Writing Programs. My pedagogical and scholarly interests include early modern transnational encounter, English travelers (to the Persian Empire), Safavid Persia, race and ethnicity, and Critical Diversity Studies.

Blog Posts

Publications

“The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert’s re-vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile.” Re-mapping Travel Narratives in the Early Modern World: to the East and Back again. Ed. Montserrat Piera. ARC Humanities Press. Print.

“‘Why are we changing maps?’: Teaching Transnational Encounter with Edward Terry’s A Voyage to East-India.” This Rough Magic. December 2014. Web.

“Othello in Harlem: Transforming Theater in Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet.” Shakespeare in Black America. Ed. Patricia Cahill and Kim F. Hall. Journal of American Studies.

FORTHCOMING

“Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit.” England’s Asian Renaissance. Ed. Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli. University of Delaware Press.

Projects

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

Digital Project, “Medieval and Early Modern Orients”

Article, “Teaching Intersectionality through Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet”

Article, “Persia and the Triangulation of Early Modern Encounter”

Monograph, Translating Persian in Early Modern English Writing

Memberships

MLA, Shakespeare Association of America, Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (inducted 2012)

Full-Time Lecturer

UCLA, Writing Programs