BA, MFA, MA, PhD
Instructor, Art History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
School of Humanities
Art History
604.986.1911 ext. 3074
Fir Building, room FR 406B
behrangnabavi@capilanou.ca
Education
PhD, Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, 2017.
MA, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, 2009.
MFA, Art History, Bangalore University, 2000.
BA, Persian Arts, Alzahra University, 1997.
Bio
Behrang Nabavi Nejad completed her PhD at the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. Her doctoral thesis explores the text-image relationships in early modern illustrated manuscripts of the Persian national epics, the Shāhnāma, and the intertextual relations of this versified text with its pre-Islamic written sources, the Avestan and Pahlavi literature, as well as contemporary historiographies of Medieval and early modern Persia.
Her research proposes three distinctive iconographic categories for the representations of the mythical bird, the Sīmurgh, in Persian painting. In her research, she continues to explore the production, patronage and reception of the illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnama with relevance to their socio-political contexts.
Her most recent publication is titled “A Battle of Equals: Rustam and Isfandiar in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Shāhnāma,” in The Epic World, 2023 (ed. by Pamela Lothspeich, Routledge).
Nabavi Nejad taught art history courses at the University of Victoria, Columbia College and Capilano University. She has taught courses on Islamic art, Persian art and architecture from ancient to contemporary, and offered guest lectures for The University of British Columbia (Department of Asian Studies) and Simon Fraser University (Research Associate, 2019).
A Battle of Equals: Rustam and Isfandiar in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Shāhnāma,” in The Epic World, 2023 (ed. by Pamela Lothspeich, Routledge).