Ali Shobeiri
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. S.A. Shobeiri
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2752
- s.a.shobeiri@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2954-9251
Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
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
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- KG Moderne beeldende kunst
- Shobeiri S.A. (2024), The afloat photographer: corporeal immersivity as an instance of sheer inactivity, Image [&] Narrative 25(2): 129-142 (8).
- Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H.F. (Eds.) (2024), Virtual photography: artificial Intelligence, in-game, and extended reality. Image no. 242. Wetzlar: Transcript Publishing.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2024), Introduction. In: Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H.F (Eds.), Virtual photography: artificial intelligence, in-game, and extended reality. Wetzlar: Transcript Publishing. 7-23.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2024), Larval memories. In: Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H.F (Eds.), Virtual photography: artificial intelligence, In-Game, and extended reality. Wetzlar: Transcript Publishing. 63-79.
- Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H.F. (2023), Psychosomatic imagery: photographic reflections on mental disorders. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2023), Introduction. In: Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H. (Eds.), Psychosomatic imagery: photographic reflections on mental disorders. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-14.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2023), The room is the world: reflecting on the lived life of hikikomori through photography. In: Shobeiri S.A. & Westgeest H. (Eds.), Psychosomatic imagery: photographic reflections on mental disorders. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 17-38.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2023), Photography and memory. In: Bietti L.M. & Pogacar M. (Eds.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of memory studies. Switzerland: Springer Nature . 1-10.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2023), The spatiotemporal city: unveiling time and space in metropolis, Studies in Visual Arts and Communication 10(1): 3-10 (1).
- Shobeiri S.A. & Rys M. (2023), Anxious and precarious: entanglements of affect and labour in contemporary culture, Literature and Aesthetics 33(2): 1-5 (1).
- Shobeiri S.A. (2023), Gesturality: an Ethico-Aesthetic of anxiety in late photography, Literature and Aesthetics 33(2): 47-59.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2022), The figure of "the photographer" in Flusser's Philosophy of Photography Review of: Flusser V. Towards a philosophy of photography , Revelar: Revista de Estudos da Fotografia e Imagem = Reveal: Journal of Photography and Image Studies 6(1): 83-85 (5).
- Shobeiri S.A. (2021), Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography no. 2. Leiden : Leiden University Press.
- Shobeiri S.A., Gageldonk M. van & Munteán L. (2021), Introduction. In: Shobeiri S.A., Gageldonk M. van & Munteán L. (Eds.), Animation and memory . Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. 1-19.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2021), Review of: Zylinska J. (2017), Nonhuman Photography . Cambridge & London : MIT Press . Revelar: Revista de Estudos da Fotografia e Imagem = Reveal: Journal of Photography and Image Studies 5(1): 186-189.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2021), Aftermath Photography: A Lacuna between Embracing and Resisting Mass Culture, Desipientia. Zin en Waan 27(2): 38-42.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2021), Thinking from materials in Andy Goldsworthy’s environmental artworks, Studies in Visual Arts and Communication 8(1): 15-25.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2021), The Landscape: The Terraqueous Skin of the World, Membrana 6(2): 41-51 (4).
- Anli Z., Volkmar A., Cardozo de Souza A.P., Feuth A.G.B.M., Hui T., Majid B., Seale L.R., Shobeiri S.A., Vergeer T. & Polak S.A. (Eds.) (2020), Landscape in Perspective: Projections and Transformations. Journal LUCAS Graduate Conference. Leiden: Leiden University Library.
- Shobeiri S.A., Van Gageldonk M. & Munteán L. (Eds.) (2020), Animation and Memory. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2020), Antumbral memory : a psychosomatic Ppenomenon in "Phantom Limb". In: Shobeiri S.A., Gageldonk M. van & Munteán L. (Eds.), Animation and memory. Palgrave Animation. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. 127-141.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2019), "The Evental Place of Photography" , Image & Narrative 20(3): 75-90.
- Shobeiri S.A. (2018), Review of: Costello D. (2018), On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry. New York : Routledge . CAA.reviews .
- Shobeiri S.A. (2018), Materialiteit en abstractie: beleefd landschap en waargenomen landschap: Nederland volgens Harm Botman en Witho Worms, Fotografisch geheugen (96): 22-25.
- Shobeiri S.A. (24 January 2018), Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography (Dissertatie. Center for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Alphen E.J. van, Westgeest H.F.