Sessional Instructors & Lecturers

Shahrooz Yousefian

Sessional Instructor

E: mjyousef@sfu.ca

Shahrooz Yousefian is an Iranian Vancouver-based media art scholar and drama studies associate professor. He is passionate about exploring how film, theatre, and literary adaptations interact. He has been a member of the International Federation of Theater Researchers (IFTR) since 2012. He is also on the advisory board of the Journal of Arab Stages by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of New York University. The Segal Theatre Center published his joint book with Marvin Carlson, a series of adaptations of Persian religious culture entitled Ta’ziyeh: Ten Contemporary Indigenous Plays from Iran (2023). He is currently a Federation of British Columbia Writers (FBCW) member and researches the interdisciplinary capabilities of film, theatre, and literary studies. Additionally, he is a member of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC).

Since 2010, Dr. Yousefian has contributed numerous scholarly articles to prestigious international academic journals as a lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University. Translating Daniel Frampton's Filmosophy (2004) into Farsi opened up an innovative ground for studying film aesthetics in Iran. Over the past two decades, He 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.” Moreover, he has conducted over fifteen professional workshops and master classes focused on short film production, primarily commissioned by the Iranian Youth Cinema Society (IYCS) from 2004 to 2020. Additionally, he collaborates with the American Drama and Theater Society (ADTS).

In 2020 and 2022, he was honored as an outstanding lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. His research interests encompass a broad spectrum of intermedial connections among Film, Theatre, and Literature. His research topics include dramatic adaptations of classical and modern Iranian literary texts, intercultural film studies, and the historical evolution of Iranian drama. Dr. Yousefian was an awardee of the National Center of Iranian Theater Critics in 2014 and 2016, and he is one of the founding members of the Scientific Association of Dramatic Literature of Iran. In addition to writing poetry, short stories, and plays, he has published several articles in prestigious academic journals. His most recent co-authored book, Meta-historiography in Iranian Drama, was published in the winter of 2023. His latest article on Iranian Poetic Cinema is scheduled to be released in the Cinema Iranica Encyclopedia: A Digital Research Compendium at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto.