Bryn Mawr College Board Approves Spring 2026 Promotions and Tenure

Shen's research focuses on 20th-century German culture, visual studies, and Asian German studies. She is the author of "The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films" and "Jiny Lan and the Art of Subversion." She also co-edited "Beyond Alterity: German Encounters with Modern East Asia" and "Charting Asian German Film History." Her articles have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is on three editorial boards: German Studies Review, Visual Culture in German Contexts Series, and German Screen Studies. She has co-edited the special issue marking the German Studies Association’s 50th anniversary in 2026. She also serves on the GSA Executive Board (2026–2029).

Dabashi 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, and Feminist Media Histories. She is author of "Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel," which received the 2024 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, and co-editor of "The New William Faulkner Studies." She is working on two monographs, one on the suppressed relevance of classical Islamic philosophical debate to the history of Euro-American literary criticism, and another on affect and form in the Iranian New Wave Cinema.