Fatemeh Tashakori

Fatemeh Tashakori earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Art and Art History from The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of philosophy, visual culture, gender, and cross-cultural exchange, with particular attention to the politics of representation, embodied experience, and the visual construction of Otherness.

Professor Tashakori has published articles and book chapters on visual culture, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, representations of gender and sexuality, and early modern cross-cultural artistic exchange between Europe and the Islamic world. Drawing on aesthetics, phenomenology, and critical theory, her scholarship explores how images mediate encounters between Self and Other, the familiar and the foreign, and the body as a locus of social and cultural meaning. Through this critical lens, works of art are understood as sites where perception, power, desire, and subjectivity are negotiated. She is currently developing a book project that extends these inquiries through a broader study of embodiment, eroticism, and the visual construction of Otherness.

Professor Tashakori’s additional research and teaching interests include modern philosophy of art, phenomenology and embodiment, and the politics of representation.

• Modern philosophy of art and aesthetics
• Gender, sexuality, and the body in islamic art
• Politics of representation
• Phenomenology, embodiment, and visual culture

• Early modern cross-cultural artistic exchange
• Early modern islamic art and visual culture
• Persian manuscripts and visual knowledge

• The University of Texas at Dallas, PhD in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetic Studies, 2020
• Allameh Tabatabai University,Tehran, Iran, MA in Philosophy of Art, 2011
• Tehran Art and Architecture University, Tehran, Iran, BA in Industrial Design, 2007

• Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History and Philosophy of Art, Western Washington University (2022-2023)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Dallas Museum of Art and The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History (2020-2022)
• Research Associate, The Dallas Museum of Art (2020-2021)

• The University of Texas at Dallas, The Best Dissertation Award, 2021