Contact
The University of Texas at Austin
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Calhoun Hall (CAL) 400
Austin
TX
78712
United States
ABOUT
Babak Tabarraee received his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. He has also completed two graduate degrees in Film Studies (MA, 2013) and Dramatic Literature (MA, 2007). His research revolves around media reception in modern Iran. His writings have appeared in Iranian Studies, The Soundtrack, Cinephile, and the Iranian Encyclopedia of the World of Islam. His publications in Farsi include three authored books of fiction, twenty-two book-format translations, and several essays, short stories and screenplays. Before joining UT, he taught screenwriting and film analysis at the University of Art in Tehran. He is currently working on a book based on his recently completed dissertation: Iranian Cult: A Cinema of Failure.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Drama
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Language Acquisition
Theater
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Turkey
Specialties
Iranian Cult, Popular, And Alternative Cinema, Lit
Historical Reception Studies In Media And Arts
New Interdisciplinary Methods In Teaching Persian
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Latin (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Texas at Austin
MA
| 2010
| Film Studies
| UBC
MA
| 2007
| Dramatic Literature
| Tehran University of Art
BA
| 2004
| Theater
| Tehran University of Art
Abstracts
Islamic Republic’s Treatment of Confusing Signifiers: The Curious Case of Marmulak
From "Not without My Daughter" to "Argo": The Iranian Reception of Hollywood’s Iran-Centered Films
H?m?n and the Iranian Psyche: Failed Masculinity and Intellectual Fandom
Men at Work: Revisiting Filmfarsi and the Hegemonic Masculinities of the Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
