Ida Meftahi is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, with a minor in Drama. Through a multidisciplinary historiographical exploration of the discourse on dance, Meftahi’s dissertation offers a genealogy of modern Iranian biopolitics. Meftahi has presented and published in fields ranging from Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies to Dance Studies.

“Dancing Angels and Princesses: The Invention of an Ideal Female National Dancer in 20th-Century Iran,” in Oxford Handbook on Dance and Ethnicity, ed. Anthony Shay (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Cultural History, Performing Arts, Historiography of Body

Iranain Studies

PhD Candidate, University of Toronto