Mojtaba Ebrahimian is a scholar of Modern Middle Eastern Intellectual History and Iranian Studies. His first book, Reimagining Europe: Persian Travel Writing and Visions of Progress in Early Nineteenth-Century Iran shows how travel and writing about travel to Europe was crucial in the Iranian encounter with modern post-Industrial Revolution Europe in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. The book examines the intellectual history of early nineteenth century Iran and shows how Iranians assessed contemporary European civilization. He has published or has under review several articles on Persian literature, Iranian cinema, and modern Iranian history. He has taught courses on Middle Eastern History, Islamic History, Islamic Political Thought, Middle Eastern Humanities, and Persian Language and Literature at the University of Arizona, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University.
