Roya Rastegar

Roya Rastegar is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art department at Bryn Mawr College. She received a Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz. In collaboration with Wu Tsang, Rastegar is the screenwriter of Wildness (2012), which was honored as one of the year’s most “influential, innovative films” with “lasting historical significance” for MoMA’s The Contenders 2012 film series, and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Outfest. She was a curatorial fellow at the Whitney Museum’s ISP, a co-director of the Santa Cruz Women of Color Film & Video Festival, and has participated in the programming process of a variety of festivals, including at Sundance, Tribeca, and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Her current book manuscript explores the transformative possibilities of film and new media curatorial practices through a critical study of film festivals in the U.S.