Dalia Davoudi

Dalia Davoudi is an Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute. Davoudi works in the fields of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory, and Black and ethnic studies, and her current book project, Queer Choreographies, aims to locate the work of ritual in American social processes, studying citation, remediation, and adaptation as aestheticized forms of repetition which enable mobile social attachments.

She was previously a National Endowments for the Humanities Fellow, and her work has recently been published in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and Radical Teacher. In addition to publishing in traditional scholarly forms, Davoudi maintains a compositional practice with experimental video essays.

Davoudi is the co-founder of the Cultural Research and Practice Lab.