Babak Ashrafkhani Limoudehi
Status
PhD Student
Credentials
BA (SBUK), MA (IAUCTB)
Area of expertise
Contemporary British Drama, Environmental criticism, Cultural Studies.
Babak Ashrafkhani Limoudehi is a PhD student in English and CSPT at UVIC. He completed his MA in Iran, and his Master’s project involved a cultural materialist approach to Edward Bond’s selected plays. Babak has, in recent years, published Farsi translations of several plays and other texts, including Hisaye Yamamoto’s short story collection Seventeen Syllables, Edward Bond’s play Bingo, Alexander Ostrovsky’s play The Storm, and Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls. He has staged a few plays including Interview by Mohammad Rahmanian, and There is no Return by Eric Bradwell.
Babak’s main research interest lies in Contemporary British Drama, Environmental criticism and Cultural Studies.
Recent Scholarly Activity:
“Towards a Post-gender Cyborg in Ella Hickson’s Oil: An Edenic Anthropocene.” Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 35(3), Spring (2023).
“Anthroparchic Gynocide/Genocide vs. Capitalist Patriarchy: An Ecofeminist Reading of Zadie Smith’s Two Men Arrive in a Village.” Iafor: Journal of Literature and Librarianship, 9.2 (2020): 102-113.
“An Anthropogenic Upheaval: Edward Bond's Bingo, Shakespeare's Enclosure, and Terrocentric Identity.” Ecumenica: Journal of Theatre and Performance, 10.2 (2017): 19-28.