Masha Salazkina

Masha Salazkina

Masha Salazkina is Concordia Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Culture and director of PhD program in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montreal.  Her work incorporates transnational approaches to film theory and cultural history with a focus on early Soviet Union, Latin America, and Italy. Her recent book In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico positions Eisenstein's unfinished Mexican project and theoretical writings within the wider context of post-revolutionary Mexico and global cultures of modernity.  She has published in Cinema Journal, October, Screen, KinoKultura, and in several edited collections, and has won fellowships at the American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford University Humanities Center, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  Masha is currently co-editing (with Lilya Kaganovsky) a volume on Sound in Soviet and Russian Cinema.