Maziyar Faridi
Assistant Professor
Contact
Department of English
Office: 610 Strode
Schedule an Appointment: https://calendly.com/maziyarfaridi/office-hour
Email: mfaridi@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Northwestern University (2020); M.A., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2011); B.A., Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2008)
Research Interests
Comparative Modernism; Global Cinema; Poetry and Poetics; Film Theory; Postcolonial Transnational Studies; Critical Theory; Global South; Middle East and North African Literatures and Cinemas
Maziyar Faridi is a scholar of comparative literature and film studies whose research explores critiques of the sovereign subject in continental philosophy, identity and media studies, postcolonial transnationalism, and modern literatures and cinemas from the Middle East and North Africa. His current book project examines Iranian and global modernism (1922-1979), where he traces the emergence of a poetics that challenges both colonial modernity and anticolonial identitarian frameworks. Focusing on an understudied corpus of literary and filmic texts, Faridi argues that this poetics offers the promise of new forms of political relationality beyond modernity’s politics of the sovereign subject. Faridi’s research has been recognized by several awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2024-2025), the Charles Bernheimer Prize for the best dissertation from the American Comparative Literature Association (2020-2021), the Ferdowsi Tusi Award for outstanding research in Persian literature and culture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018), and Clemson University's Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award (2024). His publications span both Persian and English, with forthcoming articles in Diacritics and Comparative Literature. An alumnus of the Paris Program in Critical Theory—a joint initiative between Northwestern University and Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III)—he also holds certificates in Middle East and North African Studies (Northwestern), Critical Theory (Northwestern), and World Literature (Harvard University and the City University of Hong Kong). Maziyar is interested in supervising graduate projects broadly on questions of sovereignty and subjectivity in media and literature, semiotics and psychoanalysis, the rhetorical foundation of “people,” transnationalism and postcolonial translation studies, and critical theory from the Global South, among others.
Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2024-2025); Charles Bernheimer Award (2021); Ferdowsi Tusi Award (2018)
