Mohandes Magazine Fall-Winter Edition 2018

The Representation of Women in Persian
Poetry and Iranian Cinema
This event was held on 7th of March 2018. All members were invited to join the celebration of
International Women’s Day 2018 at Mohandes Monthly Seminar. The guest speaker of the
seminar was Prof. Khatereh Sheibani and she talked about: “The Representation of Women in Persian
Poetry and Iranian Cinema”in Persian language.
About the Speaker Khatereh Sheibani.
She is a lecturer and a researcher of Persian language,
literature and culture in the Department of
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and member
of the graduate program in the Dep. of Humanities
at York University. She studied English Literature
in Shiraz University and general linguistics
in the University of Tehran, Iran before coming to
Canada. Khatereh completed her doctorate degree
in comparative literature at the University of Alberta,
Canada in 2007. She has written articles on modern
Persian literature and the relations between Iranian
cinema, Persian poetry, and the conventions
of visual arts in literary and cinema anthologies in
journals such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal
of Film Studies. Her book entitled “The Poetics
of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film
after the Revolution” was published in November
2011 by I.B.Tauris, UK . Khatereh has been consulted
and interviewed on issues regarding Iranian cinema
by globally distinguished broadcasting services and journals such as CBC, PRI, and the New York
Times. She has taught a wide array of courses on Persian language and literature, media and democracy,
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