Assistant Professor
Communication & Theatre Arts

Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi

3025 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the 桃花社区视频 Dominion University. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Kansas. Dr. Moradiyan-Rizi is the author of Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran: Reframing Reality (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and co-editor of Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2025). Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in journals including Open Cultural Studies, Synoptique, Journal of Religion and Film, and a variety of edited books.

Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies (with honors), University of Kansas, (2021)

Expertise

World Cinema
global women's cinema; Middle Eastern cinemas (with a special focus on Iranian cinema)
Film
documentary film; film genres; film history; film theory
Cultural Studies
women's and gender studies; Iranian studies; American studies (with a special focus on the American West)