As Lecturer in Persian Language and Culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Mahyar Entezari coordinates and teaches elementary and intermediate Persian (Farsi). Additionally, he teaches Iranian cinema and Persian literature. He completed his PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to teaching Persian as a foreign language, he specializes in cultural studies. His research focuses on transnationalism and representations of Afghans in Iranian cinema. He has received awards from the Fulbright Program and the U.S. Department of Education.
PhD, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas as Austin
BA, German Studies, University of California, San Diego
PERS 0390: Persian for Heritage Speakers (Fall)
PERS 0100: Elementary Persian I (Fall)
PERS 0200: Elementary Persian II (Spring)
PERS 0300: Intermediate Persian I (Fall)
PERS 0400: Intermediate Persian II (Spring)
NELC 0700: Iranian Cinema: Gender, Politics, Religion (Spring)
The Other Self: Images of Afghans in Iranian Cinema (in progress)
“The Pre-Islamic Past in Modern Iranian Culture: A Cultural Materialist Reading,” A Persian Mosaic: Essays on Persian Language, Literature and Film (2016)
“ʿAzadaran-e Bayal,” Encyclopædia Iranica (2011)
American Association of Teachers of Persian
Association for Iranian Studies