EDUCATION
PhD in Film Studies| Roehampton University, London [2025-28]
▪ Funded by AHRC Techne DTP
▪ Practice-based research on ‘Film Criticism and Dialectical Thought’
▪ Techne Research Profile: LINK
▪ Supervisory Team: Prof Michael Witt & Dr Anthony Paraskeva
M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts | Temple University, Philadelphia [2020-23]
▪ Teaching Assistant Fellowship
B.A. in Film & TV Production | University of California, Los Angeles [2018-20]
▪ summa cum laude
CONFERENCES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND WORKSHOPS
Locarno BaseCamp | Locarno Film Festival [2023]
Locarno Critics Academy | Locarno Film Festival [2023]
Young Critics Workshop, Photogénie | Film Fest Gent [2022]
Fellow/Critic | CinéSPEAK Philly Beat Fellowship [2022-23]
Presenter | UCLA Undergraduate Research Week [2020]
Presenter| Visions 9 Film Festival and Conference [2019]
▪ Paper on Sohrab Shahid Saless’ Still Life
TEACHING
Lecturer | Southwark College, London [2023-2025]
Adjunct Professor | The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township [2023]
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Temple University, Philadelphia [2020-22]
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS
Shabahang Scholarship [2023]
▪ For Academic Merit
MFA Completion Grant, Temple University [2022]
▪ For Rear Window
Film and Media Production Grant, Temple University [2022]
▪ For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Scribe Student Mediamaker Fund, Philadelphia [2021]
▪ For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Vice Provost for the Arts Student Grant, Temple University [2021]
▪ For Unfinished: Kamran Shirdel
Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [2020]
▪ For halluCINEtions
Frank Glicksman Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [2020]
▪ For halluCINEtions
Jim Morrison Film Award, UCLA [2020]
▪ For halluCINEtions
Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Scholarship, UCLA [2019-20]
▪ For research on Sohrab Shahid Saless
Peter Stark Memorial Scholarship, UCLA [2019]
▪ For The Act of Seeing
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