Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel with Pardis Dabashi

ABOUT

Pardis Dabashi is Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She teaches classes on twentieth-century literature, film, and theory, and her research examines the intersection of form, politics, and affect in narrative film and literary modernism. She is interested in how aesthetic and rhetorical form index or trouble stances of political, normative, and epistemic certainty, which she explores by examining structures of feeling such as ambivalence and doubt. She is author of Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (U Chicago P, 2023); co-editor of The New William Faulkner Studies (Cambridge UP 2022); and co-editor of the “Visualities” forum on Modernism/modernity Print +. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Film Quarterly, Early Popular Visual Culture, Arizona Quarterly, Public Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere.

And don’t miss the Film Collective screening of The Blue Angel (1930) with introduction by Dabashi at 7 p.m. in Wells B122!

Event Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm