Proshot Kalami

Dr Proshot Kalami, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 2007), is an artist-practitioner and scholar specialising in Iranian cinema, performance studies and digital media, particularly in the context of gender and ethnicity. An Associate Professor in Performance Studies and Media Studies at NSU, she has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis in the US, and at Loughborough University in the UK. Proshot is an award-winning playwright, theatre director, dramaturg, documentary filmmaker, radio drama director, poet, visual artist and voice actor. Her plays and installations have received residencies, grants and sponsorships nationally and internationally, touring in the US, UK, Europe, India and Morocco. Kalami’s scholarly work is concerned with the interaction of body and technology with specific focus on gender performativity and civic resistance. She sits at the editorial board of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, and has served as guest editor and associate editor for journals including Theatre Topics, Theatre Survey, International Journal of the Image, and the journal of Women & Performance.

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