Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4370803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shokoofeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajabzadeh |
| SIGNATURE | RAJABZADEH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0199-5295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fighting for the Middle
This essay explores the politics of disciplinarity in medieval studies by revisiting the author's own graduate medieval studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with another graduate student, the author advocated for a more flexible and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the autho…
The intellectual body, the body intellectual
Medieval Studies is embodied through whiteness, limited by whiteness, and created by the white imagination. In this field, as it is, objectivity is white subjectivity. In this paper, I argue that unless we practice embodied criticism, there is no way to think about the time and space we define as “Medieval Studies” without inhabiting whiteness. Embodied criticism sanctions, if not requires, that we find entry points to history that are not histor…
Alisaundre Becket
The depoliticized Saracen and Muslim erasure
In this article, I follow a powerful genealogy of BIWOC feminists who practice auto‐ethnography critique, and I assert my presence in the audience of scholarship on Muslim representation in the Middle Ages and show how many of the choices we value as authoritative and academic end up yielding criticism that reproduces the racism and Islamophobia of the objects of study. I argue that with few exceptions and unless it is a direct quotation, all qua…
The depoliticized Saracen and Muslim erasure
In this article, I follow a powerful genealogy of BIWOC feminists who practice auto‐ethnography critique, and I assert my presence in the audience of scholarship on Muslim representation in the Middle Ages and show how many of the choices we value as authoritative and academic end up yielding criticism that reproduces the racism and Islamophobia of the objects of study. I argue that with few exceptions and unless it is a direct quotation, all qua…
Fighting for the Middle
This essay explores the politics of disciplinarity in medieval studies by revisiting the author's own graduate medieval studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with another graduate student, the author advocated for a more flexible and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the autho…
The intellectual body, the body intellectual
Medieval Studies is embodied through whiteness, limited by whiteness, and created by the white imagination. In this field, as it is, objectivity is white subjectivity. In this paper, I argue that unless we practice embodied criticism, there is no way to think about the time and space we define as “Medieval Studies” without inhabiting whiteness. Embodied criticism sanctions, if not requires, that we find entry points to history that are not histor…
Alisaundre Becket
The depoliticized Saracen and Muslim erasure
In this article, I follow a powerful genealogy of BIWOC feminists who practice auto‐ethnography critique, and I assert my presence in the audience of scholarship on Muslim representation in the Middle Ages and show how many of the choices we value as authoritative and academic end up yielding criticism that reproduces the racism and Islamophobia of the objects of study. I argue that with few exceptions and unless it is a direct quotation, all qua…
The intellectual body, the body intellectual
Medieval Studies is embodied through whiteness, limited by whiteness, and created by the white imagination. In this field, as it is, objectivity is white subjectivity. In this paper, I argue that unless we practice embodied criticism, there is no way to think about the time and space we define as “Medieval Studies” without inhabiting whiteness. Embodied criticism sanctions, if not requires, that we find entry points to history that are not histor…
Fighting for the Middle
This essay explores the politics of disciplinarity in medieval studies by revisiting the author's own graduate medieval studies program at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with another graduate student, the author advocated for a more flexible and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the autho…
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