Such a fun conversation with my wonderful colleague, Sherine Hamdy
So proud of this, teaching is the most important part of my job!
https://writing.uci.edu/2025/02/10/multimodal-anthropology/
Just Out!!! Shakespeare Scholar Extraordinaire’s article on Yalda!!!
The thrill of having a major Shakespeare scholar write about my adaptation!!!!
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-66898-2_9?fromPaywallRec=true#citeas
Checkout an article on multimodal Teaching I wrote for The Conversation….
https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2024/2024-05-09-margrave-on-the-pursuit-of-knowledge.php
Proud moment, my mentee is featured in the UCI news!
https://authorsguild.org/member-spotlights/member-spotlight-roxanne-varzi/
Listen to Roxanne speak about the book and National Dyslexia Awareness month on “Ask a Leader” KUCI
https://askaleader.com/?tag=roxanne-varzi
https://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2023/2023-10-17-varzi-ask-a-leader.php
Book Talk at Hunter High School in New York City
https://event.newschool.edu/deathinanutshell
Honored to be part of a special edition celebrating the career of Katie Stewart whose genre-bending ethnographic work I first read in graduate school. And to be given the opportunity to play with form and words. Thank you Katie Stewart for pushing boundaries!!
In a 100 word poem I attempt to take down categories and boxes and discuss dyslexia.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anhu.12485
In her second experimental documentary, anthropologist Roxanne Varzi travels back again to Tehran. This time, she decides that the best way to see a place with a multitude of preconceived notions attached to it is through the eyes of a child.
An ode to Abbas Kiarostami, who deftly showed us the world through the eyes of a child, Tehran Tourist is a project in guerrilla filmmaking. The film was shot predominantly on an iPhone, handheld and on the fly. It moves from the archeology museum in Tehran to a village in Kurdistan (soon-after devastated by an earthquake) to playgrounds and school rooms — in and out of political –landscapes and allegory– to elucidate an Iran that few are privy to.
The film plays with youthful notions of identity and place and belonging as a child tries to make sense of where he is and where he came from. All the while, it introduces the non-Iranian viewer to an Iran that very few are privy to.
New York City Talks, February 2023
November 30 2022