• cultural politics of representation and display
• globalization, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism
• oral discourses of contemporary art in Iran
• representational visibility and invisibility in contemporary art
• historiography of art and histories of knowledge production
• theories of ideology
• language and politics of translation
• the intersection of Marxism and Postcolonialism
• enlightenment: pascal, montaigne, and kant
• queer theory
• theories of perspective
