Saljoughi, Sara

Sara Saljoughi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough and graduate faculty at the Cinema Studies Institute. Her areas of research interest are world cinemas, film theory, critical theory, feminism, migration, and postcolonial studies. She is currently completing a manuscript on the aesthetics and politics of Iranian cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. Her research has been published in the journals Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Histories, Iranian Studies, Film International, Iran Namag, Film Criticism, and Jadaliyya. She has contributed chapters to the anthologies Faces on Screen: New Approaches, Mothers of Invention: Filmmaking &/as Parenting Practice, Counter-Memories: Memoryscapes in Iranian Cinema, No Master Territories, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam & Women, and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. She is the co-editor of the volume 1968 and Global Cinema (Wayne State University Press, 2018). Professor Saljoughi is also a co-editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.