Roshanak Kheshti

Assistant Professor

Social Sciences Bldg. Room 231
Phone: 858.534.2136
Fax: 858.534.8194
E-mail: rkheshti@ucsd.edu

OFFICE HOURS:

Fall 2009: By Appointment

Winter 2010: TBA

Spring 2010: TBA

2009-10 COURSES:

Fall 2009:

Winter 2010:
ETHN 127 x CGS 112 - Sexuality and Nation (Day/Time TBA)
ETHN 200B - Formulations: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in Ethnic Studies (Day/Time TBA)

Spring 2010: ETHN 101 - Ethnic Images in Film (Day/Time TBA)

Education: Dr. Kheshti received her Ph.D. in anthropology with a parenthetical notation in women’s studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. She was subsequently a Visiting Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in 2005-06 and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the same department from 2006-08 under the mentorship of Professor Paola Bacchetta.

Research Interests: Her primary interests are in the consumption of culture, race, ethnicity and gender through sound and film, queer of color theory and sexuality in Iran.

Projects: She is working on a manuscript with the working title “Oto-Erotic: Fetishizing the Aural Other in World Music,” which is an experimental ethnographic account of a San Francisco-based world beat record company. This work examines the production, marketing and distribution of gendered and racialized desire in world beat. She teaches courses and publishes in the areas of critical race theory and sexuality, queer theory, cultural studies of film and music, and acoustic ethnography.

Publications:
Kheshti, Roshanak. Forthcoming (Dec. 2008). Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in “A Paler Shade of White.” American Quarterly 60(4).

Kheshti, Roshanak. 2008. Inversion, Signifiance and the Loss of the Self in Sound. Parallax 14(2): 68-77.