Dr. Emily L. Blout is a historian and media scholar. She is author of "Media and Power in Modern Iran: Mass Communication, Ideology, and the State," (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2023). She holds a PhD in Iranian Studies from the University of St. Andrews and a MA in International Security Studies from the National Defense University in Washington, DC.

Media and Power in Modern Iran: Mass Communication, Ideology, and the State

I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury, October 2022  

“Soft War: Myth, Nationalism, and Media in Iran.” The Communication Review, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

With Bruce Williams, “Power and Sovereignty in Hypermedia Space: Middle East Case Studies.”The Communication Review, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

“Persian Service: The BBC and British Interests in Iran,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Routledge, 2015.

“Iran’s Soft War: History, Myth and Nationalism in the New Communication Age,” SAIS Review of International Affairs, John Hopkins University Press, 2015.

“Major Sanctions Legislation: An Analysis,” Legal Review, Journal of the Iranian American Bar Association, 2008.

Political communication, modern Iranian history, US-Iran relations, international security studies, global media studies, nationalism, myth

Assistant Professor, General Faculty, University of Virginia