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Mira Xenia Schwerda
Mira Xenia Schwerda is a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern Studies and History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research focuses on photography and printing in the modern Middle East, specifically the impact of photography on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Her publications include ‘Death on Display: Mirza Reza Kirmani, Prison Portraiture and the Depiction of Public Executions in Qajar Iran’ in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (2015), ‘Iranian Photography: From the Court, to the Studio, to the Street’, in McWilliams, Roxburgh (eds), Technologies of the Image (Yale University Press, 2017), and ‘Amorous Couples: Depictions of Permitted and Prohibited Love’, in Roxburgh (ed.), An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran (Yale University Press, 2017).