A little bit about me…
Marjan Moosavi, Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies
Lecturer, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
I received my PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. I am the Roshan-endowed lecturer in Performing Arts and Persian Studies at UMD. My teaching specializations are theatre and performance, with additional expertise in decolonization at the intersection of politics, gender, and space. I am also a trained dramaturg and translator. My cross-continental education and seventeen years of teaching experience in the US, Canada, and Iran have empowered me to connect my diasporic experience with interdisciplinary research methodologies and reflective pedagogy. I appreciate my everyday life, with all its messiness and ambivalence.