Pourtavaf, Leila

Leila Pourtavaf is an Assistant Professor of Global Public History at York University’s Department of History. Her research stands at the intersection of gender, modernity, and Middle East history with a focus on Qajar Iran. Her upcoming book project, The Cosmopolis Harem, looks at the social, cultural, and spatial dimensions of the women’s quarter of Nasir al-Din Shah’s court. She is also an independent curator and has published in a wide range of journals in both academic and cultural realms, including the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Iran Namag: Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies, INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, Fuse magazine, and ArtEast. She is the editor of Féminismes électriques (2013), a bilingual collection of essays which reflect on the history of feminist art and cultural production.