Faculty Associate
sheibani[at]yorku.ca
Contract Faculty
Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, York University
Research Keywords:
Iranian cinema; Persian literature and culture
Research Region(s):
West Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Khatereh Sheibani is a scholar, author and curator of Middle Eastern and Iranian cinemas and cultures. She has designed and taught multiple courses on Middle Eastern and Iranian media and culture at York University. Khatereh has a doctorate degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the University of Alberta. Her book titled The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution was published in November 2011 by I.B.Tauris, UK. She has edited two special issues of Iran Namag: A Quartely of Iranian Studies, on Abbas Kiarostami (with Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto Press, 2018) and on Radio Iran (Spring 2024). Khatereh has written more than 20 articles on gender in the Middle East and Iran, modern Persian culture and literature, Iranian cinema and Middle Eastern cinemas in anthologies, books, and journals such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She has written two novels (in Persian) titled Hotel Ira (in press) and Blue Bird Café (Toronto, 2022, reprinted 2023). Khatereh was consulted and interviewed on issues related to Iranian cinema by broadcasting services and journals such as CBC, PRI and the New York Times.