Occupation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Marjan Moosavi is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. She won Iran’s National Fadjr Theatre Festival Special Acting Award (1989) and Iranian Women’s Theatre Festival Award for her research on “Gender Dynamics” in plays by Iranian women playwrights (2009). Marjan is originally from Iran, but her life, work, and studies have taken her across Iran, US and Canada. Her professional work is rounded out with dramaturgy, dramatic translation, project-based arts research and sessional work as an instructor. She has articles on Iranian dramaturgy and Iranian theatre festivals published in Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy and TDR (The Drama Review). Marjan has also lectured in various conferences on contemporary Iranian theatre. She has recently joined the global editorial team of TheTheatreTimes.com as Regional Managing Editor for Iran. Her current studies focus on Iranian theatre’s interventions in culture and politics.
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
Theater
Iranian Studies
Drama
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
Iran
Specialties
Theatre Research, Theatre Historiography, Drama Cr
Persian Language, Pedagogy
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Cenre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
| University of Toronto
Abstracts
Religiosity and Emotionality in Iranian Theatre: (Re)presentations and Interventions
Ambivalent Dances and Anxious Dilemmas: A Comparative Study of the Dramatization of Living Young in Plays from Egypt, Iran and Syria
Iranian Drama by Vectors: A Computational Analysis of Iranian Plays
