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Dr Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Senior Lecturer in Film PracticeProfile
Maryam Ghorbankarimi is a filmmaker and film scholar whose research focuses on the representation of women both in front of and behind the camera. Her first monograph, (2015), examined the shifting representation of women in Iranian cinema and the contributions of female filmmakers. Her current research explores transnational cinemas and cultures, particularly the representation of gender, identity, and sexuality in Middle Eastern cinemas.
Her edited collection (2021) was published by Edinburgh University Press as part of the ReFocus series on international directors. Most recently, she co-edited (2024) with Michelle Langford and Zahra Khosroshahi. She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming volume , which further develops her research interests in Iranian and diasporic women’s filmmaking, transnational art cinema, and feminist visual culture.
Maryam is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has designed and introduced a number of practice-based film modules that combine creative production with critical and theoretical engagement.
UNDERGRADUATE
I convene and teach the second-year optional modules Short Film Production, Film, Gender, Race and Ideolgy and the third-year optional module Experimental Cinema: Theory and Practice.
I also contribute lectures to the first-year core module Introduction to Film Studies and the second-year core module Global Cinemas and other optional module, and I supervise a number of undergraduate dissertations.
POSTGRADUATE
I am currently co-supervising the following PhD projects:
- Yunhe Zhang, Mythic Echoes: Reimagining Ancient Chinese Gay Figures in Fashion Film
- Damla Champion, Queerness and Drag within Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Texts
- Jo?o Lima Belchior, Nostalgic Nostalgia: Using Personal Stories to Reactivate Portuguese Modern History (practice-based)
- Abdulrahman Alomar, Behind the Lens of Suspense: Crafting the Transcendental Thriller (practice-based)
- Bode Asiyanbi, Nigerian Adaptation of Netflix’s Colombian Telenovela Palpito (practice-based)
- Micha?l Boucherie, Towards a New Methodology of Directing Intimacy in Film (practice-based, writing-up)
- Raha Athhari, Alienated Memories: Reconstructing the Self in Autobiographical Writings of Diasporic Iranian Women (writing-up)
Former PhD students:
- Fraser Cornall, Borders and Transcendence: The Existential Structural Film (practice-based) 每 working on post-viva corrections
- Ian Hunt, Cinema as Memory Machine: A Practice-Based Thesis Exploring Cultural and Embodied Memory Through Experimental Cinema (practice-based) 每 working on post-viva corrections
- Areej Alghamdi, Documenting Saudi Intangible Cultural Heritage: Women’s Dance (practice-based) 每 PhD awarded in 2025
- Kingsley Akam, Women Filmmakers and the Remaking of New Nollywood: Gender, Politics and Governance 每 PhD awarded in 2025
- Zoe Crombie, Studio Ghibli’s Adaptations of Western Literature 每 PhD awarded in 2025
- Tom Carter, Transcultural Screenwriting (practice-based) 每 PhD awarded in 2024
Research Overview
My research interests include gender and representation in film both on and off screen, film adaptation, transnational cinemas with a focus on Iran and other Middle Eastern cinemas, and film industries and practices in general.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am happy to discuss PhD proposals on any aspect of transnational cinemas and Middle Eastern Cinemas as well as gender and representation in film and TV. I am also interested to receive creative and practice based PhD proposals intersecting practice with any of the above topics.
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01/02/2025 → 31/05/2026
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01/10/2024 → 28/02/2026
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01/10/2023 → 30/09/2026
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01/12/2022 → 10/02/2024
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01/11/2022 → 08/09/2026
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01/11/2022 → 21/09/2023
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08/09/2022 → 06/05/2023
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01/08/2020 → 30/04/2021
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Cultures, Imagination Lancaster
- Centre for War and Diplomacy
- Cultures
- Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network