Mazyar Mahan Editor

Maryam Ghorbankarimi is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on women’s representation in Iranian cinema, transnational feminist aesthetics, and the intersections of film, politics and cultural memory. She is the author of A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women’s Representation in Iranian Cinema (2015) and editor of ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad (2021). She also co-edited The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema (2024). Mazyar Mahan is a Teaching Associate and PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He teaches courses on transnational cinema, global art cinema, and understanding film. His dissertation examines films made by Iranian expatriate filmmakers over the past decade. His research has appeared in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration, The Spectator, and The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media.