Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills
About
Tahereh Aghdasifar earned her PhD in cultural studies with a certificate in women's, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University. Her research interests include queer of color critique, everyday life, and affect. She is currently the director of the Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life.
Current Work:
I am interested in how women of color, particularly queer women of color, experience and develop relationality. My current book project, "Queering the Quotidian: Everyday Homosociality in Iranian Bra Shops," explores how women experience sociality in communal dressing rooms, and how Iranian economic policies are impacting women's access to such spaces. I am also conducting research for a new project demonstrating how queer of color performances that refuse audience legibility facilitate modes of relationality outside of identity politics.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Queer theory; women of color; performance studies; spatial theory; homosociality
