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ABOUT
Khatereh Sheibani is a scholar, author and curator of Iranian cinema and Persian literature and culture. She has established multiple courses in Persian studies (language, literature and culture) at York University. Khatereh completed her doctorate degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. Her book entitled The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution was published in November 2011 by I.B.Tauris, UK . She has co-edited a special issue of Iran Namag on Abbas Kiarostami (w/ Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto Press, 2018). Khatereh has written articles on modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema and Middle Eastern cinemas in literary and film anthologies and journals such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She is collaborating with Iran Namag for a special issue on radio to be published in 2021. She has written two novels (in Persian) so far. The first novel titled Hotel Iran will be published in 2021 by Nashr-e Ameh in Tehran. Her second novel, Blue Bird café is going to be published in Europe in 2021. Khatereh was consulted and interviewed on issues regarding Iranian cinema by broadcasting services and journals such as CBC, PRI, and the New York Times. Currently, she is on research leave to work on a book-length project on gender representation in Iranian cinema.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Comparative
Colonialism
Iranian Studies
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Cinema/Film
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Afghanistan
Egypt
Palestine
Central Asia
Specialties
Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema
Middle Eastern Cinemas
Persian Poetry And The Novel
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Comparative Literature
| University of Alberta
MA
| 1998
| Linguistics
| University of Tehran
BA
| 1992
| English Language and Literature
| Shiraz University
Abstracts
Authorship in Performance in the Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
