Pardis Dabashi

Pardis Dabashi is Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She is a scholar of comparative modernist aesthetics and disciplinary history, with an emphasis on narrative form and critical epistemology in the Euro-American, Iranian, and classical Islamic contexts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such venues as PMLA, Comparative Literature, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Feminist Media Histories, Early Popular Visual Culture, Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. She is also a contributing author to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (eds. Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant; Princeton UP 2025) and Quran: Literary Dimensions (ed. Shawkat Toorawa; Edinburgh UP; forthcoming 2028). She is author of Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (UChicago Press, 2023; Recipient of 2024 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize) and co-editor of The New William Faulkner Studies (Cambridge UP, 2023). She is currently at work on a book about the suppressed relevance of classical Arab-Islamic philosophical debate to the history of Euro-American literary criticism. She is also at work on a co-authored book, with Kent Puckett and Yoon Sun Lee, on the role of plot and its relation to secularism in the history of narrative theory.