Agnès Devictor

Agnès Devictor is a Lecturer at the Faculty of History of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she teaches Iranian cinema. She previously served as a Visiting Professor at OMAM (2019-2020) and held a lecturer position at the University of Avignon and Pays de Vaucluse in the Department of Information and Communication. Her academic journey includes a doctorate in political science focused on Iranian cultural policy.

Her research intersects political science and historical methodologies to analyze:

• Production of filmed images in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Visual documentation of Middle Eastern conflicts since the 1980s
• War cinema during the Iran-Iraq conflict (1980-1988)
• Cinematic representations of wars in Afghanistan
• Cultural policy mechanisms in authoritarian states

Devictor maintains active memberships in several research groups:

• Laboratory for Cultural and Social History of Art (HiCSA)
• Center for Studies and Research in the History and Aesthetics of Cinema (CERHEC)
• Labex CAP (Creation, Arts, Heritage)
• Associate researcher at UMR 7528 Iranian and Indian Worlds