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Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari

Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari is a PhD student in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. He holds an MA in English Literature from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, where he wrote a thesis on the zones of indeterminacy between aesthetics and politics, law and life, actors and non-actors in the state of exception. His interdisciplinary research gravitates to the intersections of performance studies, affect theory (shame-humiliation), and philosophy. His areas of interest include: Iranian theatre and cinema, Islamic and political theatre, self-stigmatization, (un)framing and (un)veiling, the unseen in Islam (al-ghayb), history of Islamic medicine, performative resistance, and anxiety in performance. His writing has appeared in TDR/The Drama Review, Textual Practice and IJCS: International Journal of Children’s Spirituality.

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