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Affiliation

American University

Arkin University

Boise State University

Boston University

Cambridge University

Catholic University of America

Columbia College

Concordia University

Cornell University

CY Cergy Paris University

Duke University

Fairfield University

Federation of British Columbia Writers (FBCW)

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC)

Freelance Researcher

Griffith Film School

ICP Paris

Independent

Iran University of Art

Iranian Students Polling Agency

Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

Jagiellonian University

Lancaster University

McGill University

Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

Michigan State University

Monash University

New York University

Northwestern University

Pennsylvania Western University

Research Team

RMIT University

Saint Mary’s College of California

San Francisco State University

Seton Hall University

Simon Fraser University

Sorbonne University

Tarbiat Modares University

Texas Tech University

The College of Wooster

The Open University

Tours University

Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) / Wings of Desire Institute

University at Buffalo

University of Alberta

University of Arizona

University of Beirut

University of British Columbia

University of Calgary

University of California

University of California, Davis

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Delaware

University of Edinburgh

University of Essex

University of Glasgow

University of Göttingen

University of Guilan

University of Isfahan

University of Kent

University of London

University of Michigan

University of Münster

University of New South Wales

University of North Carolina

University of Pars

University of Saskatchewan

University of Science and Culture

University of Southern California

University of St Andrews

University of Tehran

University of Texas

University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Dallas

University of Toronto

Yale University

York University

Field of Study/Interest

American Cinema

Anthropology

Architecture and Design in Postcolonial Film and Television

Art Cinema

Art History

Art Theory

Black Studies

Cinema

Cinema and Media History

Cinema of Diaspora

Cinemas of Central Asia, Iran and Turkey

Cinemas of the Greater Middle East

Cinemas of the Middle East

Cinematic Canons

Cognitive Poetics

Comparative Literature

Contemporary American Fiction

Contemporary Art

Contemporary History of Iran

Contemporary Iranian Literature

Critical Psychology

Critical Theory

Cross-cultural Film Exchange

Cultural Critique

Cultural History of Twentieth Century Iran

Cultural Representation

Cultural Semiotics

Cultural Theory and Literature

Culture

Decolonizing Cinema Studies

Diasporic and Exilic Cinema

Diasporic Culture

Diasporic Visual Culture

Documentary and Fiction Filmmaking

Documentary Filmmaking

Education

Embodiment

English Literature

Exilic Autobiographies

Exilic Cinema

Family

Feminism

Feminist Theory

Fiction Writing

Film

Film & Media Studies

Film Analysis

Film and Media Theory

Film Archiving and Criticism

Film Criticism

Film History

Film Studies

Film Theory

Film-Philosophy

French-Iranian Cinematic Relations

Gender

Gender and Diaspora Studies

Gender Justice

Gender Studies

Genre Studies

Global Cinema

Global Modernisms

Historical Contexts

Historical Sociology

Historical Studies

History

History of Cinema

History of Guilan

History of Iran

History of Iran-Canada Relations

History of Modern Iran

Human Relations

Independent Filmmaking

Institutional Films

Intellectual History

Iranian and Kurdish Cinemas

Iranian Cinema

Iranian Cinema and Media

Iranian Cinema in Exile

Iranian Cultural Studies

Iranian Diaspora

Iranian Diaspora Studies

Iranian Film Studies

Iranian Modernity

Iranian New Wave Cinema

Iranian Studies

Iranian Theatre

Iranian Women's Movement

Iranian Women’s Fiction

Islamic Studies

Italian Cinema

Late 18th- to 20th-Century Architectural and Art Histories

Literary Adaptation

Literary Criticism

Literature

Local Genres

Media

Media Reception in Modern Iran

Microbudget Filmmaking

Middle Eastern Art and Literature

Middle Eastern Cinema

Middle Eastern Studies

Modern and Contemporary Architecture

Modern and Contemporary Art

Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture

Modern Iranian Cinema

Modern Persian Poetry

Modernity

Mysticism

National Cinema

National Theater

Performance

Performance Studies

Performativity

Persian Literature

Phenomenology

Philosophy

Philosophy of Art

Politics of Representation in Media and Film

Post-Islamic Iranian History

Postcolonial Studies

Postmodernism

Psychoanalysis

Psychological Resilience

Refugee Filmmaking

Religion

Religion and Culture

Rituals

Sexuality

Shiite Ritual

Social Criticism

Social Media

Social Movements

Societal Well-being

Sociological Theory

Sociology of Art and Culture

Sociology of Iranina Films

Symbolism

Technology, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

the Ambivalent Representation of Unveiled Women in Iranian Cinema

the History of Development in Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran's Propaganda Film Culture

Theater

Transatlantic Literature

Transnational Film Production

Transnational Kurdish Cinema

Urban Cinema

Urban Studies

Utopianism

Visual Culture

Visual Storytelling

Women and Cinema in the Islamicate cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia

Women and Gender Politics in Contemporary Iranian Cinema

Women's Studies

World Cinema

Location

Austin, Texas, USA

Berkley, California, USA

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Chicago, Illinois, USA

East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Edinburgh, Scotland

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Lancaster, England

London, England

Los Angeles

Lourmarin, Provence, France

Melbourne, Australia

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Paris, France

Rasht, Guilan, Iran

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Silicon Valley

South Bank, Queensland, Australia

St Andrews, Scotland

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Sydney, Australia

Tehran, Iran

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

USA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Washington, D.C., USA

Wooster, Ohio, USA

Hamid Naficy

Northwestern University

Film Studies, Islamic Studies

Shohini Chaudhuri

University of Essex

Feminism, Film Studies, Film-Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies, World Cinema

M. R. Ghanoonparvar

University of Texas at Austin

Comparative Literature

Persis Karim

San Francisco State University

Iranian Diaspora Studies

Pamela Karimi

Cornell University

Middle Eastern Cinema, Modern and Contemporary Architecture, Modern and Contemporary Art, Modern and Contemporary Visual Culture

Iftikhar Dadi

Cornell University

Art History, Cinema

Cameron Cross

University of Michigan

History, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Persian Poetry

Michelle Langford

University of New South Wales

Film Studies, Islamic Studies

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Cinematic Canons, Global Cinema, Independent Filmmaking

Mohammad Tahaminejad

Cultural Representation, Documentary Filmmaking, Iranian Cinema

Ali Mirsepassi

New York University

Golbarg Rekabtalaei

Seton Hall University

Cultural History of Twentieth Century Iran, History of Cinema, Modern Iranian Cinema, Urban Cinema

Blake Atwood

University of Beirut

Technology, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

Anne Démy-Geroe

Griffith Film School

Film Studies, Iranian Cinema

Kaveh Askari

Michigan State University

Art Cinema, Cinema, Cinema and Media History, Cinemas of the Middle East, Film Studies

Rex Butler

Monash University

Art Theory, Film, Philosophy

Negar Mottahedeh

Duke University

Film & Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Zahra Khosroshahi

University of Glasgow

Iranian Cinema, Women and Gender Politics in Contemporary Iranian Cinema

Daniele Rugo

University of London

Film Studies| Cinema Iranica Board Member

Laura Fish

University of Texas

Film Studies, History, Islamic Studies

Roshanak Kheshti

University of California

Film Studies, Gender Studies, Islamic Studies

Sara Saljoughi

University of Toronto

Critical Theory, Film Theory, Postcolonial Studies, World Cinema

Pedram Partovi

American University

Film Studies, History, Islamic Studies

Kiarash Aramesh

Pennsylvania Western University

Nacim Pak-Shiraz

University of Edinburgh

Iranian Cinema, Middle Eastern Cinema

Saeed Talajooy

University of St Andrews

Cultural Theory and Literature, Iranian Cinema, Iranian Theatre, Persian Literature

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

Columbia College

Film Studies, Islamic Studies

Tanya Shilina-Conte

University at Buffalo

Film Studies, Film Theory, Film-Philosophy

Claudia Yaghoobi

University of North Carolina

Gender, Iranian Cultural Studies, Sexuality

Farbod Honarpisheh

Yale University

Critical Theory, Film Studies, Film and Media Theory, Iranian Cinema, Middle Eastern Cinema, Visual Culture

Amy Motlagh

University of California, Davis

Comparative Literature, Gender and Diaspora Studies, Iranian Cinema, Persian Literature

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

University of London

Iranian Cinema and Media

Laudan Nooshin

University of London

Parviz Jahed

University of St Andrews

Film Studies, History, Islamic Studies

Kaveh Abbasian

University of Kent

Exilic Cinema, Iranian and Kurdish Cinemas, Microbudget Filmmaking, Refugee Filmmaking, The Islamic Republic of Iran's Propaganda Film Culture

Niki Akhavan

Catholic University of America

Film Studies, Islamic Studies

Gönül Dönmez-Colin

Cinemas of Central Asia, Iran and Turkey, Transnational Kurdish Cinema, Women and Cinema in the Islamicate cultures of the Middle East and Central Asia

Amir Ganjavie

Film Studies, Utopianism

Pardis Minuchehr

University of California, Santa Barbara

Gender Justice, Iranian Diaspora, Iranian New Wave Cinema, Postmodernism

Mostafa Abedinifard

University of British Columbia

Film Studies, Gender Studies, Islamic Studies

Jerry White

University of Saskatchewan

Iranian Cinema

Simran Bhalla

University of Southern California

Architecture and Design in Postcolonial Film and Television, Global Modernisms, Institutional Films| Cinema Iranica Board Member

Javad Zeiny

ICP Paris, Sorbonne University, Tours University

English Literature, History, Philosophy

Talinn Grigor

University of California, Davis

Late 18th- to 20th-Century Architectural and Art Histories

Farshid Kazemi

Simon Fraser University

Iranian Cinema, Psychoanalysis

Elżbieta Wiącek

Jagiellonian University

Art History, Cinema, Cultural Semiotics, Film Analysis

Ida Meftahi

Boise State University

Gender, History of Modern Iran, Performance

Iqan Shahidi

Cambridge University

Babak Tabarraee

Media Reception in Modern Iran

Mahshid Modares

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cinemas of the Greater Middle East, Decolonizing Cinema Studies, Iranian Film Studies

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