Shahrooz Yousefian

Shahrooz Yousefian, PhD is an Iranian associate professor of Dramatic Arts and a member of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC) based in Vancouver. He is also a current member of the Federation of British Columbia Writers (FBCW) and focuses on the interdisciplinary capabilities of Film, Theatre, and Literary Studies. Since 2010, he has contributed numerous scholarly articles to prestigious international academic journals while serving as a senior lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University. His most notable achievement is the translation of Daniel Frampton’s “Filmosophy” (2004) into Farsi, which opened up an innovative ground for studying film aesthetics in Iran.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Yousefian has conducted academic courses such as the “Evolution of Cinematic Language and Expression,” “Globalization and Iranian National Cinema,” and a series of scholarly discourses on “Kiarostami’s Unfinished Films” and “Postmodern Cinema.” Additionally, he has facilitated more than 15 professional workshops and master classes on short film-making, mostly commissioned by the Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS) from 2004 to 2020. He is also in collaboration with the American Drama and Theater Society (ADTS). The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center recently published his joint research project with Marvin Carlson, titled “Ta’ziyeh” (2023), which includes a series of literary adaptations of Persian ritual culture. He was honoured as an outstanding lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, Iran, in 2020 and 2022.

Dr. Yousefian was awarded by the National Center of Iranian Theater Critics in 2014 and 2016 and is one of the founding members of the Scientific Association of Dramatic Literature of Iran. In addition to writing literary works, he has also contributed to accredited periodical reports on Iranian culture and literature. His recent co-authored book, “Meta-historiography in Iranian Drama,” was published in the winter of 2023.

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