Maziyar Faridi

Assistant Professor

Contact
Department of English
Office: 610 Strode
Schedule an Appointment: https://calendly.com/maziyarfaridi/office-hour
Email: mfaridi@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Northwestern University (2020)

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
Comparative Modernism; Global Cinema; Poetry and Poetics; Film Theory; Postcolonial Transnational Studies; Critical Theory; Global South; Middle East and North African Literatures and Cinemas

Maziyar Faridi is a scholar of comparative literature and film studies whose research explores critiques of the sovereign subject in continental philosophy, identity and media studies, postcolonial transnationalism, and modern literatures and cinemas from the Middle East and North Africa. His forthcoming book, Nonsovereign Styles: Rhythms of Relation in Persian Modernism (FlashPoints Series, Northwestern University Press, 2027), is a critical encounter with a constellation of poetic and cinematic motifs from Persian modernism that interrupts modernity’s ordering of subjects into self-identical citizens. His new book project theorizes nonsovereign forms of relation with the environment in the context of the Middle East and North Africa. Faridi’s research has been recognized by several awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2024-2025), the Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation from the American Comparative Literature Association (2020-2021), the Ferdowsi Tusi Award for outstanding research in Persian literature and culture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018), and Clemson University's Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award (2024). His publications span both Persian and English, with articles in Diacritics and Comparative Literature, among others. An alumnus of the Paris Program in Critical Theory—a joint initiative between Northwestern University and Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III)—he also holds certificates in Middle East and North African Studies (Northwestern), Critical Theory (Northwestern), and World Literature (Harvard University and the City University of Hong Kong). Maziyar is interested in supervising graduate projects broadly on questions of sovereignty and subjectivity in media and literature, semiotics and psychoanalysis, the rhetorical foundation of “people,” transnationalism and postcolonial translation studies, modernist visual cultures and rhetorics, accented and diasporic cinemas, and critical theory from the Global South.

Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2024-2025); Charles Bernheimer Award (2021); Ferdowsi Tusi Award (2018)

Selected Professional Works

Books (In Production or Under Contract)

Nonsovereign Styles: Rhythms of Relation in Persian Modernism (Forthcoming in FlashPoints Series, Northwestern University Press, June 2027).