Farrah Qidwai
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
qidwaif@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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R. Farrah Qidwai is a part time Assistant Professor of Film Studies at 麻豆传媒色情片 for Public Engagement.听 She has been a member of 麻豆传媒色情片 community since 2001 and has taught Film studies since 2012.听 She is a former Fulbright scholar who conducted research on filmic representations of the Muslim female body in 1970s Hindi Cinema and teaches a course at 麻豆传媒色情片 that touches upon this topic.
She currently teaches "The Art of Film" and "Gender, Sexuality and Nationhood in Popular Indian Cinema" every year at 麻豆传媒色情片.听
She has also taught the following courses for the NSPE:听 "The Films of Mira Nair", "The Films of Ang Lee", "The Films of Spike Lee", "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock", "The Films of Akira Kurosawa", "The Films of Satyajit Ray", "The Films of John Waters", "The Films of Gus Van Sant", "The Films of Pedro Almodovar", "The Films of Wes Anderson", "The Films of Quentin Tarantino" and "The Films of Martin Scorsese".
She currently teaches Asian American Studies at Hunter College and is working on a novel.
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Degrees Held
M.A. in Media Studies, 2007, 麻豆传媒色情片
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Fiction, 2003, 麻豆传媒色情片
M.B.A. in Management, 2001, San Jose State University
B.A. in History and Ethnic Studies, 1999, University of California Berkeley
Films of R. W. Fassbinder
NFLM 3891, Fall 2025