Amy Malek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4929133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Malek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Malek |
| SIGNATURE | MALEK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-9348-4248 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction to Special Issue
Reflecting the ongoing migrations of Iranians and the truly global reach of the Iranian diaspora, social scientific research on the lives of Iranians in diverse global locations has been published in many languages beyond English and Persian. Despite the unprecedented accessibility of scholarship in the digital age, research in these languages nevertheless remains unevenly visible. This special issue of Iranian Studies focuses on Iranian migratio…
Reperiodizing, Reclassifying, and Reframing the Iranian American Diaspora in This Flame Within
At first glance, the publication of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States just two weeks prior to the spark of what would become the “Woman-Life-Freedom” protest movement may seem to have been unpredictably timely. As Iranians in Iran and around the world took to the streets and social media in autumn 2022, and as they have since navigated deep fragmentations (old and new) in diaspora, Manijeh Moradian's words written pr…
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots
What happens when vintage family photos are digitized and enter the global visual economy as representations of a people, politics, time, and place? In this article, I examine the social life of an exemplary viral snapshot from pre-revolutionary Iran to demonstrate three of the many shifting uses and social meanings of these snapshots in online global circulations: as representations for diasporic nostalgizing, as tools of soft power in public di…
Subjunctive nostalgia of postmemorial art
Family archives have become the source of nostalgic 1.5 and second-generation diasporic cultural work as artists seeking to understand their family histories and to negotiate liminal identities remediate private home movies, photos, and postmemorial narratives. The liminal position of these artists leads to imaginative remediations that dwell in what could have been, prompting a subjunctive nostalgia for a future past cut short by revolution and …
Paradoxes of Dual Nationality
Despite suggestions that multiple citizenships offer enhanced access to security, mobility, and rights, dual nationals of countries like Iran may instead experience greater insecurity, immobility, and disruption of rights. This article offers a brief overview of recent literature and controversies surrounding dual citizenship and then focuses on the Iranian case, demonstrating the limits of dual citizenship as felt by diasporic Iranians. The wind…
Claiming Space
Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora
In the last decade Iranian Americans have increasingly taken to the same streets and fair-grounds as Irish, German, and Puerto Rican American communities before them to hold ethnic parades and festivals to assert their cultural and ethnic identity to an American public often hostile to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I tr…
If you're going to educate 'em, you've got to entertain 'em too”
In an attempt to surpass the genre of travelogue, three Americans—Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison—traveled to southwestern Iran to film the biannual migration of the Bakhtiari tribes and their flocks from winter to summer pastures. In Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925), Schoedsack's exquisite framing of long shots captured the vast movement of an estimated 50,000 people and 500,000 animals in desert caravans,…
Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production
In this essay, Iranian exile cultural production is examined via a cultural studies approach, applying Hamid Naficy's work on the concept of liminality and its productive potential to analyze the Iranian women's memoir phenomenon of the past eleven years. Focus is placed primarily upon Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis , which is analyzed as part of this larger memoir phenomenon. I will argue that Persepolis is a prime example of exile c…
Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production
In this essay, Iranian exile cultural production is examined via a cultural studies approach, applying Hamid Naficy's work on the concept of liminality and its productive potential to analyze the Iranian women's memoir phenomenon of the past eleven years. Focus is placed primarily upon Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis , which is analyzed as part of this larger memoir phenomenon. I will argue that Persepolis is a prime example of exile c…
Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora
In the last decade Iranian Americans have increasingly taken to the same streets and fair-grounds as Irish, German, and Puerto Rican American communities before them to hold ethnic parades and festivals to assert their cultural and ethnic identity to an American public often hostile to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I tr…
Claiming Space
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots
What happens when vintage family photos are digitized and enter the global visual economy as representations of a people, politics, time, and place? In this article, I examine the social life of an exemplary viral snapshot from pre-revolutionary Iran to demonstrate three of the many shifting uses and social meanings of these snapshots in online global circulations: as representations for diasporic nostalgizing, as tools of soft power in public di…
Subjunctive nostalgia of postmemorial art
Family archives have become the source of nostalgic 1.5 and second-generation diasporic cultural work as artists seeking to understand their family histories and to negotiate liminal identities remediate private home movies, photos, and postmemorial narratives. The liminal position of these artists leads to imaginative remediations that dwell in what could have been, prompting a subjunctive nostalgia for a future past cut short by revolution and …
Paradoxes of Dual Nationality
Despite suggestions that multiple citizenships offer enhanced access to security, mobility, and rights, dual nationals of countries like Iran may instead experience greater insecurity, immobility, and disruption of rights. This article offers a brief overview of recent literature and controversies surrounding dual citizenship and then focuses on the Iranian case, demonstrating the limits of dual citizenship as felt by diasporic Iranians. The wind…
Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production
In this essay, Iranian exile cultural production is examined via a cultural studies approach, applying Hamid Naficy's work on the concept of liminality and its productive potential to analyze the Iranian women's memoir phenomenon of the past eleven years. Focus is placed primarily upon Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis , which is analyzed as part of this larger memoir phenomenon. I will argue that Persepolis is a prime example of exile c…
Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora
In the last decade Iranian Americans have increasingly taken to the same streets and fair-grounds as Irish, German, and Puerto Rican American communities before them to hold ethnic parades and festivals to assert their cultural and ethnic identity to an American public often hostile to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I tr…
If you're going to educate 'em, you've got to entertain 'em too”
In an attempt to surpass the genre of travelogue, three Americans—Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison—traveled to southwestern Iran to film the biannual migration of the Bakhtiari tribes and their flocks from winter to summer pastures. In Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925), Schoedsack's exquisite framing of long shots captured the vast movement of an estimated 50,000 people and 500,000 animals in desert caravans,…
Claiming Space
Subjunctive nostalgia of postmemorial art
Family archives have become the source of nostalgic 1.5 and second-generation diasporic cultural work as artists seeking to understand their family histories and to negotiate liminal identities remediate private home movies, photos, and postmemorial narratives. The liminal position of these artists leads to imaginative remediations that dwell in what could have been, prompting a subjunctive nostalgia for a future past cut short by revolution and …
Paradoxes of Dual Nationality
Despite suggestions that multiple citizenships offer enhanced access to security, mobility, and rights, dual nationals of countries like Iran may instead experience greater insecurity, immobility, and disruption of rights. This article offers a brief overview of recent literature and controversies surrounding dual citizenship and then focuses on the Iranian case, demonstrating the limits of dual citizenship as felt by diasporic Iranians. The wind…
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots
What happens when vintage family photos are digitized and enter the global visual economy as representations of a people, politics, time, and place? In this article, I examine the social life of an exemplary viral snapshot from pre-revolutionary Iran to demonstrate three of the many shifting uses and social meanings of these snapshots in online global circulations: as representations for diasporic nostalgizing, as tools of soft power in public di…
Reperiodizing, Reclassifying, and Reframing the Iranian American Diaspora in This Flame Within
At first glance, the publication of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States just two weeks prior to the spark of what would become the “Woman-Life-Freedom” protest movement may seem to have been unpredictably timely. As Iranians in Iran and around the world took to the streets and social media in autumn 2022, and as they have since navigated deep fragmentations (old and new) in diaspora, Manijeh Moradian's words written pr…
Introduction to Special Issue
Reflecting the ongoing migrations of Iranians and the truly global reach of the Iranian diaspora, social scientific research on the lives of Iranians in diverse global locations has been published in many languages beyond English and Persian. Despite the unprecedented accessibility of scholarship in the digital age, research in these languages nevertheless remains unevenly visible. This special issue of Iranian Studies focuses on Iranian migratio…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Diaspora (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works)