Tahereh Aghdasifar

Tahereh Aghdasifar is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies with a certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University and M.A. in Women's Studies from Georgia State University.

Aghdasifar specializes in queer of color critique, performance studies, and political economy to focus on questions of sociality and opacity. Her current book project develops a theory of refraction reading anti-representational aesthetics of dispossession and displacement to build a collective materialist politics. Her scholarship is published in GLQ, Women & Performance, and A Love Letter to "This Bridge Called my Back," among others, and has been supported by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly The Woodrow Wilson) Mellon Fellowship, the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies, and the American Association of University Women.