Education
- MA in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California
- BA in Filmmaking, Columbia College Chicago
Field of Interest
Marxism, Neocolonialism and decolonialism, Global South literature and films, revolution and counterrevolution, anger and labor. anger and ontological social being.Languages
Primary Languages: Arabic (Mesopotamian and Fushā), Persian (Modern and Classic), Turkish (Modern and Ottoman), Kurdish. Secondary Languages: Spanish and Latin (reading), Azari (reading, speaking), Dari.Publications
Book Chapter
– Hassanpour, Emeer. Sonic Anger: The Auditory Perception of Women’s Domestic Labor. Filth, Dirt, Purity, and the Woman. Madhumira Guha, Vernon Publication, forthcoming.
Translations
– Something’s Missing: A Discussion Between Ernst Bloch and Theodor Adorno on the Contradiction of Utopian Longing – Translated from English to Persian (2019)
– Cayan, Mahir. Continuous Revolution– translated from Turkish to Persian (2020).
– Hikmet, Nazim, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Liebknecht – translated from Turkish to English, Cine Bizarre (2021) – (Vol. 1.2)
– Darwish, Mahmoud. Sabra and Shatila – translated from Arabic to English, Cine Bizarre (2021).
Articles
– Women and Silence: The Female Transition from Silence in Cinema, The Spectator (Spring, 2024) – (Vol. 44.1)
Film as a Director
- The Bread Season- Feature film (2025) https://mubi.com/en/us/films/the-bread-season
Awards and Fellowships
• California Arts Fellowship, Individual Art Fellowship (2023-2024)
• Annenberg Graduate Fellowship, USC (2023-2024)
• Graduate Fellowship Research, and Creative Project Symposium Grant, USC (2024)
• Israni Film Center, UCSD (2023)
• George Moody Memorial Fund (2022,2023-2024)