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Babak Ashrafkhani is a PhD candidate in English at UVIC. He completed his BA and MA in Iran, and has held teaching positions at various institutions, including Guilan University of Medical Sciences, where he won a Teaching Excellence Award in 2019. Babak’s main research interest lies in Contemporary British Drama, Thatcherite Fiction, Environmental criticism, Cultural Studies, the Anthropocene, Eco-Theatre, and Nature Writing. 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, 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.

Recent Scholarly Activity:

“A Journey towards Womanist Agency in debbie tucker green’s trade.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 12.2 (2024).

“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.