Bagheri, Golsheed | Public & Applied Humanities

gbagheri@arizona.edu

Bagheri, Golsheed

Adjunct Instructor

Goli Bagheri is a teacher and an aspiring artist. Trained as a sociocultural historian of the modern era, she focused much of her academic work on cultural production, popular culture, youth movements, media consumption, consumerism, resistance and revolution, with regional expertise in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Since obtaining her doctorate in 2018, she has expanded her research interests to include art, mythology, political economy and postcolonial studies. Goli is deeply committed to public education and also teaches Humanities at Pima Community College.

Currently Teaching

PAH 160D4 – Life in the City of Tomorrow: Time Travel, World Building, and Speculative Futures

This course explores the past, present, and future of urban life by looking at speculative representations of cities. We focus especially on practices of time travel and world building used by futurists and creatives as tools for thinking about how our cities ought to be. In addition to engaging with a range of materials that demonstrate these practices over the course of the term, we will also experiment with using these practices as methods for problem solving, critical study, and the creation of urban futures in the real world, taking into particular consideration markers of identity such as race, gender, or class.

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PAH 260 – Asian Pacific American Cultures in Public Life

From Bruce Lee to Crazy Rich Asians, from General Tso's Chicken to Korean tacos, and from Yuri Kochiyama to Kamala Harris, Asian Pacific American (APA) cultures and public figures have transformed and been transformed by their relationship to other cultures in the United States. We will consider some of these notable examples as models and highlight how they represent public culture, connecting to contemporary debates in the field of Asian Pacific American studies. Course themes will include: the cultural construction of race; representations of APAs in the media; APA gender and sexuality; hybridity and multi-generational diasporas; consumption and APA food culture; politics of the model minority; collective APA action and urban cultures; and the culture of refugees and war. Methods of intercultural competence and public humanities, both key applied humanities approaches to engaging with a globalized world, will be introduced as frames through which these APA Studies themes can be understood and analyzed.

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