Sareh Z Afshar, currently the Artemis A.W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender Studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, is a writer, translator, scholar, and storyteller. Their research and teaching interests reside at the intersection of performance and politics, with an emphasis on critical cultural theory, materiality of visuality, aesthetics of everyday life, minoritarian memory and trauma studies, collective movements and new/digital media ecologies, and transnational queer feminist praxis. She is now at work on her monograph, “Authority and Ambiguity: Performances of Death and Power in Postrevolutionary Iran,” which theorizes what she calls “performances of death” as a framework through which one Iranian generation knows itself and is known to others.

Co-editor of the bilingual multimedia platform, Feminist Futures, their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TDR: The Drama Review, e-misférica, TPQ: Text & Performance Quarterly, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Khayyam, Ravagh, and edited book volumes. Having lost more than two cities—lovely ones, Montréal, Tehran, New York—she spends her time in New England contemplating the balance between being too foreign for home and too foreign for here. She will be joining the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University as an Associate Research Scholar in Fall 2024.