Pardis DabashiPardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno, where she specializes in modernism, novel studies, and film studies. Her work has appeared in such venues as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,Textual Practice, Public Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is currently completing her first book, which studies plot, ambivalence, and normativity in the modernist novel and popular film. Read More Read Less