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Hamid Yari Sessional Lecturer

Office
McLean Hall 120

Research Area(s)

  • Film Studies
  • History of Cinema
  • Iranian Diasporic Literature
  • Exilic Literature
  • Third World Cinema

Research

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Mirzaei, Yaser, Mehdi Ebrahimpour, Mohammad Giah, Ahmad Karimi, Hamid Yari, Todd Morrison. “Contextually Insecure Diasporic Iranian Masculinities,” Sage Open. (Forthcoming). 

Yari, Hamid, and Mohsen Hanif. “The Buddha of Suburbia: Reevaluating the (Sub)urban Images in the Postmodern City,” Culture Unbound (2000-1525), (Forthcoming).

Yari, Hamid, and Mohsen Hanif. “The Wretched of the Panoptic City: An Evaluation of the Spatial Power in JM Coetzee’s Foe,” Language and Culture (1983-4683), 2023.  

Yari, Hamid, and Mohsen Hanif. “A Farewell to Arms: The Clash of Love and Religion in the Character of the Priest.” Literatura e Autoritarismo (1679-849X), 2018. 


Conferences

Yari, Hamid. “The Blurred Boundaries: Cameo Roles in Abbas Kiarostami’s Post-1979 Films.” FMSAC, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2024.

Yari, Hamid. “‘Only the one living on the border will create a land: The Diasporic Optic in Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhino Season (2012).” FMSAC, York University, Toronto, May 2023.

Yari, Hamid. “Woody Allen’s Zelig: Hyperreal Postmodernism and Its Portrayal in the Mocumentary.” Literary Eclectic at the University of Regina, Regina, 2022.

Yari, Hamid. “The Narcissistic Narrative and Its Implication in Paul Auster’s City of Glass.” National Conference on Narrative across Literary Genres, The University of Kurdistan, 2017.