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Hamid Naficy

Office: Annie May Swift 217
naficy@northwestern.edu

Hamid Naficy is a Professor of Radio-Television-Film and a the Hamid Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and is an affiliate faculty appointment in the Department of Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His areas of research and teaching include these topics as well as documentary and ethnographic cinemas. Naficy has published extensively on these and allied topics.

His English language books are: An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic Filmmaking; Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (edited); The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles; Otherness and the Media: the Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged (co-edited); and Iran Media Index. He has also published extensively in Persian, including a two-volume book on the documentary cinema theory and history, Film-e Mostanad (Entesharate-e-Daneshgah-e Azad-e Iran). He has lectured widely internationally and his works have been cited and reprinted extensively and translated into many languages.