Maziyar Faridi

Maziyar Faridi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Clemson University's College of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on comparative modernism, global cinema, and postcolonial transnational studies with specialization in Middle Eastern and North African literatures and cinemas. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University (2020), alongside degrees from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

• Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Northwestern University (2020)
• M.A.: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2011)
• B.A.: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2008)

His current book project examines Iranian and global modernism (1922-1979), exploring poetics that challenge colonial modernity and anticolonial frameworks. Faridi’s work bridges continental philosophy, critical theory, and media studies to analyze sovereign subject critiques.

Notable awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2024-2025), Charles Bernheimer Prize (2020-2021), and the Ferdowsi Tusi Award (2018). Publications appear in Diacritics and Comparative Literature.

Faridi advises graduate work on sovereignty, postcolonial translation, and critical theory from the Global South. His research incorporates interdisciplinary frameworks from the Paris Program in Critical Theory and certificates in Middle East Studies and World Literature.