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Dr Proshot Kalami
Role: Lecturer in English
Email: P.Kalami@lboro.ac.uk
Room: QQ.1.10 John Hardie Building, East Park
From 1994-97 I worked as a playwright & radio director at IRIB and taught as an adjunct lecturer. In 1998 I won the Best People’s Choice Award in pastel painting from Davis Art Center, California. I received my PhD in Comparative Literature & Cinema from the University of California Davis. I taught in three campuses of the University of California: Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Davis before moving to the UK to teach in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University. I co-directed a short documentary on Len Dixon, and am in the process of making two other longer documentaries on mystic rituals and performances of South Asia. As a professional videographer of live performances I have worked with the Asia Society in the US, recording a performance at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis, and at the Chorus Repertory Theatre in Manipur, India, as well as with Nalanda LLC at Berkeley and Calcutta and the Pit at the Barbican in the UK. I have published a number of articles on world cinema, in Cinemascope, The International Journal of the Humanities and the Annual Film Focus Issue of Weber Studies. I have also published two poetry collections in Persian. Iran’s Reel Spectre: The Cinematic Epic of a Nation is my forthcoming book by Chicago University Press/Seagull Calcutta, London, New York.