Farbod Honarpisheh

Dr. Farbod Honarpisheh is a Research Scholar with the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University, where he first arrived as a postdoctoral associate. His dissertation, “Fragmented Allegories of National Authenticity: Art and Politics of the Iranian New Wave Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s,” was completed at Columbia University. He also completed at Columbia an MA degree with a thesis called “In the Labyrinth of Yeşilçam: Transient Cosmopolitanism, Passing Images of a Street, and a Theater in Istanbul.” Before that, he obtained BA and MA degrees from Concordia University, Montréal. He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the SSHRC Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Kenneth Dietrich School Humanities Center Fellowship in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, the Ehsan Yarshater Postdoctoral Fellowship from Yale University, and multiple awards from Columbia University. Dr. Honarpisheh’s academic publications include: “From the Body of Ruin to the Ruin of Body: On Materiality and the Iranian New Wave Cinema, 1960-1979”; “The Oriental ‘Other’ in Soviet Cinema, 1929–34”; “You Are on Indian Land: Between Borders, Styles, and Authors”; and “Koşucu’nun Tasviri: Devrim Sonrası İran Sinemasının Önemli Bır Filmine Gösterilen Tepkiler Üstüne Bir Çalişma” (“Representing The Runner: A Reception Study of a Major Film From Post-Revolutionary Iran,”). His research interests include film and media theory, critical theory, Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas and visual cultures, comparative modernist studies (visual and literary), intermediality, decolonization, postcolonial theory, indigeneity, documentary studies (particularly in its ethnographic and diasporic variants), and transnationalism.

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