Yalda Hamidi

Dr. Yalda Hamidi  is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Minnesota State University. She is interested in transnational and Islamic feminisms, feminist pedagogy, and feminist cultural and literary studies. Her article, "Politics of Location in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis" is under publication in the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. In 2020, she published "Locating Sickness: Disability, Queerness, and Race in a Memoir” in Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. 

Yalda presented her research to multiple academic conferences and workshops on Iranian and Diasporic feminism and literature, feminist pedagogy, and teaching to students from religious and racial minority groups. Yalda facilitated the "Islamic Feminism Book Club" in collaboration with the Women's Center. She will continue her partnership with the Women's  & LGBT Centers on the politics of representation of Queer and Somali Muslims in the media and academic life.