'Max Bledstein is incoming Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Film Studies at University College Dublin. He completed his PhD in Film Studies at UNSW in 2022, winning the Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis for research on Iranian genre cinema. His work has appeared in journals such as Monstrum and Inks, as well as edited volumes published by Edinburgh University Press and the University Press of Mississippi. He is Associate Editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies and a contributor to Abstracta Iranica.' (https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/writer/max-bledstein/