Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki

Dr. Tahani-Bidmeshki is a 1.5 generation diasporic Iranian who teaches literature with an emphasis on African American Literary and Cultural Studies and Iranian/American Literary and Cultural Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Frantz Fanon, Afro-Pessimism, literary theory, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, nationalism, the literatures of revolutionary movements, and resistance literature. Her work focuses on the intersections of race, antiblackness, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class in the U.S. and in transnational contexts. Presently, she is working on the far-reach of black radicalism in Southwest Asia and North Africa with a specific focus on the theoretical connections between Frantz Fanon and Ali Shariati. Further, she looks at black masculinity and the long history of black fatherhood as a challenge towards Lacan’s theory of the Law of the Father. She also volunteers her time and expertise with various grassroots social justice organizations focusing on ending antiblackness.