Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

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Research

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University. Formerly, he worked as a Lecturer of Cultural Studies at Radboud University of Nijmegen (2017-2019) and Instructor of Photography at Royal Academy of Art (2018). He is the author of Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography (Leiden University Press, 2021), co-editor of Animation and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Psychosomatic Imagery: Photographic Reflections on Mental Disorders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Virtual Photography: Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality (Transcript, 2024), and Oikography: Homemaking through Photography (forthcoming).

See also: https://alishobeiri.net

Curriculum Vitae:

BKO, Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, 2019.
PhD, Interdisciplinary Theoretical Research, Leiden University, 2016-2018 
MARes, Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University (cum laude), 2014-2016 
BA, Photography (summa cum laude), 2007-2011

Research Interests:

--Photography, cinema, and animation theories
--Spatial and placial thinking
--Agency, materiality, spectrality, and virtuality
--Memory, trauma, and remembering
--Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and aesthetics

Books:

- Virtual Photography: Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality. Co-ed. A. Shobeiri & H. Westgeest. (2024. Transcript Publishing).

- Psychosomatic Imagery: Photographic Reflections on Mental Disorders. Co-ed. A. Shobeiri & H. Westgeest. (2023. Palgrave Macmillan, London).

- Place: Towards A Geophilosophy of Photography. (2021. Leiden University Press, Leiden).

-  Animation and Memory. Co-ed. A. Shobeiri, M. Muntean. M. Gageldonk. (2020. Palgrave Macmillan, London).

Teaching:

- MA Seminar, Contemporary Theories of Photography. 2023 - Present.
- BA Lecture, Photography: Analysis & Theory. 2023 - Present.
- BA Lecture, Cinema: Analysis & Theory. 2023 - Present.
- MA Seminar, Topical Debates on Photography in Historical Perspective. 2019 - 2023.
- BA Seminar, Vulgar Arts. 2022 - Present.
- BA Seminar, Seeing Time: The Temporality of the Image. 2020 - 2021.
- BA Lecture, Cinema and Photography: Theory. 2020 - 2023.
- BA Seminar, Cinema and Photography: Methodology. 2020 - 2023.
- BA Lecture, The Ugly: Politics and Aesthetics of Taste. 2020 - Present.
- MA Seminar, Debates on Documentary Strategies. 2019 - 2020.
- BA Seminar, Photography & Film: From Snapshot to Photo-Film. 2018 - 2019.

Supervision:

-PhD supervision: Leiden University & PhDArts
-MA supervision: Media Studies & Arts and Culture

Ancillary Activities 
PhD supervisor at Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts

Publications