Farshad Zahedi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication of the University of Carlos III of Madrid. His research interests include Iranian cinema and cultural studies, aesthetic roots, gender representations, psychoanalytic criticism, film theories, history of Iranian independent cinema. He teaches Moving Image History and Film Studies. He is a visiting researcher at NOVA University Lisbon under the Erasmus+ Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Training.