For some digital images of the UC Berkeley collection
of the Sasanian Seals, photographed by Koorosh Angali, please check the following
link: www.ecai.org/sasanianweb
Pieta, acrylic on canvas, 42" X 36"
SINGLE SHOW
2008-09
Lotus Gallery, Austin, Texas.
2000
Seyhoun
Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
1996
Fortisimo,
U. C. Berkeley Department of History of Art (A site specific installation), Berkeley, California.
1995
Introspective,
Darvag Community Theater, Berkeley, California.
The
Child Within, A night of Music and Art; Sponsored by The Society
Of Iranian Professionals, Cupertino Community Center, Sponsored
by Shab-e-Sokhan (an Iranian cultural club event), Cupertino, California.
1991
A night of Literature
and Art, Darvag Community Theater, Berkeley, California.
GROUP SHOWS
2008
Paraphernalia, Pump Project Art Complex, during the SXSW season; 8-22 March, Austin, Texas.
2007
EAST (East Austin Studio Tour) , Austin, Texas.
2005
San Francisco Bay Area Open Studio Season , Berkeley,
California.
2005
Art As Life
As Art, Rancho del Paraiso, Vacaville, California.
2003
Persian Center Fund Raising, Berkeley,
California.
2000
Mill and Short
Gallery; San Francisco, California.
1997
Alliance of
Islamic Arts And Education, San Rafael, California.
1996
Ovissi Gallery
Art Contest, first prize winner, Washington, DC.
1994
Northern California
Selected Iranian Artists' Exhibition, Sponsored by Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California.
1993
Northern California
Iranian Artists' Exhibition. Sponsored
by Iranian Community Center, Redwood City, California.
1993
Highland Hospital
Fund Raising Art Show, Oakland, California.
1991
Northern California
Iranian Artists' Exhibition, San Jose Lincoln Library . Sponsored by Iranian Community Center, San Jose, California.
1991
Whole Life Expo,
Visionary Arts. Sponsored by Gallery
Obscura. San Francisco, California.
1990
Whole Life Expo,
Visionary Arts. Sponsored by Gallery
Obscura. San Francisco, California.
1980
Humboldt State
University Annual Juried Show, (first prize winner), Arcata,
California.
1977
Simi
Valley Annual Art Contest, Simi Valley, California.
Ph.D., Iranian Studies, the Department
of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, California
DISSERTATION: The Angali Dialect: Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, and Glossary.
1998
MA,
Iranian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley,
California
THESIS: Drakht-i Asurig, (a text in Sasanian
Middle Persian): Transliteration, Transcription, Translation, with
commentaries.
1980
BA,
Fine Arts, Art Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.
1972
BA,
Public Relations And Publicity, College Of Social Communication
Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
RECENT POSITIONS
1998 to 2006
Lecturer: Persian Syntax and Grammar University of California,
Berkeley
De Anza Community College, Cupertino, California.
2006 to 2008
Senior Research Fellow
University of Texas at Austin.
2009-
Associate Professor of Persian Language
DLI, Monterey, California.
LECTURES
2010
From Rumi to Sohrab Sepehri’s “The Sound of the Footsteps of the Water”
The University of Texas at Austin
February 7, 2010.
2010
Rumi: The Mystery if His Religion Rumi Teach-in Conference,
The University of Texas at Austin
February 6-9, 2010.
2009
Ferdowsi the Reformist and the Case of Women Proposing Marriage Ferdowsi Teach-In Conference,
The University of Texas at Austin
April 26-29, 2009.
2008
Sadeq Hedayat: the Source of His Imagery
The Seventh Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by ISIS (the International Society for Iranian Studies),
Park Hyatt Hotel,
Toronto, Canada,
Thursday, July 31 through Sunday, August 3, 2008.
2008
The Problem of Translation in Today’s Iran
The Free Islamic University,
Tehran, Iran,
May 21, 2008.
2008
Ferdowsi in the West
The College of Economics and Management,
Tehran, Iran,
May 18, 2008.
2006
On the Development of the 3rd Singular Copula in Post-Revolutionary Colloquial Persian
The Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by ISIS (the International Society for Iranian Studies),
SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies),
London, UK,
August 3-5, 2006.
2006
Implementation of English Transcription in Teaching a Foreign Language
The Third UC Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives,
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles),
Los Angeles, California,
April 21-23, 2006.
2006
Words of English Origin in the Angali Dialect
University of Texas at Austin,
April 2006.
2004
The Dog
A versified play by Roham Shaikhani and Koorosh Angali, read by
Roham Shaikhani (Koorosh departed for Iran the same day)
Sponsored by
Intersection for Arts,
San Francisco, California,
Saturday, June 19,
2004.
2004
On
the Decipherment of Two Words in the Middle Persian Text of Drakht-i
Asurig
Fifth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies,
Sponsored by The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS); Cosponsored by The Association for the Study of Persian Societies
(ASPS),
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda, MD,
Friday, May 28 through Sunday, May 30, 2004.
2004
My
Parents Are Illiterate
The Second UC Language Consortium Conference on Theoretical & Pedagogical
Perspectives,
UCSC (The University of California at Santa Cruz),
Santa Cruz, California,
March 26-28, 2004.
2003
On the Decipherment of Two Words in
the Middle Persian Text of Drakht-i Asurig
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
The
University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, California,
Wednesday, November 12, 2003.
2002
RUMI:
The Irreligious Gnostic: An Introduction to Rumi’s biography and
philosophy Sponsored by The World Affair Council,
San Francisco, California,
February
13, 2002.
1997
The Rhetoric Aspects of Drakht-i Asurig
Sponsored by: G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies,
Iranian Studies Program, Campus Programming Committee and UCLA Muslim
Student Association,
UCLA (The University of California at Los Angeles),
Los Angeles, California,
Saturday 8th and
Sunday 9th of February 1997.
In
Search Of One’s Own Self. A miscellany of my poetry. Los Angeles/Berkeley: Nashr-e Ketab Publishers, 1995.
Two Centuries of Ruba’i in Bushehr. A selection of my ruba’is is included. Tehran: Lyan Publishers, 2007.
Without Any Favors from the Rain. A selection of my poetry in included. Bushehr: Shoru’ Publishers, 2007.
Persian Online, a comprehensive Persian Syntax and Grammar reference, entirely created electronically for Internet users, under the patronage of the University of Texas at Austin. Created 2006-2008 and launched in fall semester 2009.
URL: http://laits.utexas.edu/persian_grammar/
ARTICLES
“Save the Persian Language!” Tabarestan Weekly, Tehran, Iran, 2001.
“The Progressive Auxiliary Particle in the Angāli Dialect,” Iranshenasi, Vol. XIX, No. 2, Summer 2007.
Koorosh Angali
Recites Rumi, Vol. I
X Dot 25 Music Productions,
1997, Berkeley, California.
Composition of an Opera piece and other
music tracks for a stage play titled The Three Piglets Opera
and Ten Short Stories, written and directed by Roham Shaikhani,1993,
Berkeley, California.
Composition of music for the versified
play A Sexocialist Manifesto by Roham Shaikhani titled
, 2002.
The Three Piglets Opera
and Ten Short Stories,
Written by Roham Shaikhani
First performance, 1993, directed by Roham Shaikhani
Second performance, 2002, directed by Hameed Ehya
1997
Lysistrata 97! Operation No Penetration,
Written and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian
1997
The Last Supper Comedy,
Written and directed by Farhad Ayish
1997
San Francisco Ethnic
Dance Festival (with Banafsheh Sayyad and Irene Masharo, The Namah
Performance Troop).
1997
Dying, Laughing (with dancer/choreographer Shinichi Momo Koga (inkBoat Butoh Dancers)
and Uro Teatr Koku [Japanese Butoh Dancers], 1997, several performances).
1996
The Devil, or
The Dagger of Faith,
Written and directed by Roham Shaikhani and Farid Nabavi
AWARDS
2003
Graduate Student Instructors’ Achievement
Award
University of California, Berkeley
1996
Ovissi Gallery Art
Contest
Washington, DC
First prize winner
1980
Humboldt
State University Annual Juried Show
Arcata, California
First prize winner
1977
Simi
Valley Annual Art Show
Simi Valley, California
Second prize winner
1972
Iranian
University and College Bands Contest
Babolsar, Iran
Second place: Guitar mastery.
(See above.)