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Masha Shpolberg MASHA SHPOLBERG Assistant Professor ­ Department of Film Studies University of North Carolina—Wilmington [email protected] ­ 781-724-0207 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2020– University of North Carolina—Wilmington Assistant Professor, Department of Film Studies 2019–2020 Wellesley College Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cinema and Media Studies EDUCATION 2013–2019 Yale University and Ecole Normale Supérieure Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies Dissertation: “Labor in Late Socialism: The Cinema of Polish Workers’ Unrest, 1968-1989” Advisors: Charles Musser and Katie Trumpener (Yale); Jean-Loup Bourget (ENS) 2010–2013 Ecole Normale Supérieure, “diplôme de l’ENS” 2010–2012 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3 M.A. in Film Studies, Cultural History, and Anthropology Thesis Advisor: François Niney; Master’s thesis awarded mention très bien 2006–2010 Princeton University B.A. in Slavic Languages & Literatures, summa cum laude Certificates in French Language & Literature and the Visual Arts Additional Professional Training: 2017–2018 Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Yale University June 2016 Digital Storytelling, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria 2015–2016 Mellon Graduate Concentration in the Digital Humanities, Yale University FIELDS OF INTEREST World Cinema (with an emphasis on Eastern European and Francophone cinema) Global Documentary; Sound Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies; Film and Media Theory Ecocinema; Representations of War, Revolution, and Social Movements PUBLICATIONS Edited Volume In process Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe. Co-edited with Lukas Brasiskis. Berghahn Books. (Expected Fall 2021). SHPOLBERG CV 2 Peer-Reviewed Articles 2020 “Intermediality and the Staging of History in Stanisław Wyspiański’s play Wesele (1901) and Andrzej Wajda’s film adaptation (1973),” The Polish Review. 2019 “Lindbergh’s Engine: Hollywood’s Transition to Sound and the Aviation Film,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1-24. 2019 “Beyond Man of Marble: Deconstructing the Shock Worker Myth in Polish Documentary,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 9 (3), 1-18. 2016 “Baba Yaga sur l’écran soviétique,” Révue Sciences/Lettres 1(2), 1-15. 2014 “The Din of Gunfire: Rethinking the Role of Sound in World War II Newsreels,” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, 3 (2), 113-129. Book Chapter Forthcoming “The Educational Film Studio and the Cinema of Wojciech Wiszniewski” in Ksenya Gurshtein and Sonja Simonyi (eds.), Postwar Experimental Cinemas in Eastern Europe, Amsterdam University Press. Translations Forthcoming French to English. Filming the War: The Soviets Face to Face with the Holocaust 1941-1946. [Filmer la guerre : les Soviétiques face à la Shoah]. Valérie Pozner, Alexandre Sumpf, Vanessa Voisin (eds). Translated with Alice Lovejoy. Paris, France: Editions du Mémorial de la Shoah. Exhibition catalogue. Original published in 2015. 127 pages. 2019–present French and Polish to English. Interviews with female film editors for the Edited By: Women Film Editors project hosted by Su Friedrich at Princeton University. < https://womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu > Film Criticism and Essays Forthcoming “Icy Water, Acid, and Free Forests: The New Ecocinema from East Central Europe,” Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. 2020 “In Memoriam: Sarah Maldoror,” Senses of Cinema. Issue 95. 2019 “Between the Fragment and the Ruin: Socialism in the Films of Kira Muratova.” East European Film Bulletin. Volume 98. 2018 “The 1968 Forced Exodus of Polish Jewry on Film.” Tablet Magazine. 2017 “Humanizing the Soviet Subject: The Cranes Are Flying.” Senses of Cinema. Special Dossier: 100 Years of Russian Cinema. Issue 85. 2017 “A Soviet Fairy Tale: The Irony of Fate, or I Hope You Have a Nice Bath!” Senses of Cinema. Special Dossier: 100 Years of Russian Cinema. Issue 85. 2017 “Growing Up, East of Europe.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 2016 “Affect, Identification, and Communion: The New Generation of Polish Documentary.” Senses of Cinema. Issue 81. SHPOLBERG CV 3 2016 “Looking Out for Something Better to Come: An Interview with Hanna Polak.” Film Quarterly. 69 (4), 65-71. 2014 “Heroism in the Age of Guerrilla Warfare: David Ayer’s Fury” (with Grant Wiedenfeld). Los Angeles Review of Books. Book and Festival Reviews 2016 The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film 1916-1989 by Kamila Kuc and Michael O’Pray. Slavic and East European Journal. 60 (3), 575-576. 2015 Film Rhythm After Sound by Leah Jacobs. Film Quarterly. 68 (4), 101-102. 2015 “Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival” (with Joshua Glick). Senses of Cinema 77. 2015 “Troubled Times on the Potemkin Steps: The Odessa International Film Festival.” Film Quarterly. 69 (2), 55-59. HONORS AND AWARDS 2017–2019 Poorvu Fellow for Teaching and Learning (Yale) Fall 2017 Digital Humanities Teaching Fellow (Yale) 2015–2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to pursue the Graduate Concentration in Digital Humanities (Yale) Summer 2017 MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Yale) Summer 2016 John F. Enders Dissertation Summer Research Fellowship (Yale) Summer 2015 Clara Levillain Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Fellowship to (Yale) Summer 2014 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Polish language study at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. July 2010 First place in ENS “Sélection Internationale” entrance examination 2010–2011 Fulbright Research Fellowship to Łódź, Poland May 2010 Senior Thesis Prize, Visual Arts Program (Princeton) May 2009 Nicholas Bachko Prize in Slavic Languages & Literatures (Princeton) TEACHING Wellesley College Summer 2020 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies (online) Spring 2020 Theories of the Media Spring 2020 Media & Spirituality Fall 2019 “Being There”: Documentary Film and Media Yale University Summer 2017 & 18 Global Hollywood Independent Instructor SHPOLBERG CV 4 AY 2017-8 Documentary Film Workshop Teaching Assistant for Professor Charles Musser Spring 2017 War on Film Co-taught with Professor Katerina Clark through Associates-in-Teaching program Fall 2016 Introduction to Film Teaching Assistant for Professor Ron Gregg Workshops Led as a Poorvu Fellow at Yale’s Center for Teaching and Learning: Spring 2019 Teaching First-Generation and Non-Traditional Students Spring 2019 Leading Effective Discussions Spring 2019 Gender in the Classroom Fall 2018 Teaching with Technology Spring 2018 Writing Across the Disciplines Spring 2018 Universal Design for Learning Fall 2017 Politics in the Classroom Fall 2017-8 Fundamentals of Teaching Humanities FILM PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE 2019 Contemporary Documentary. Wellesley College. Screenings of films and guest visits by documentarians Robb Moss and Laurie Kahn. 2017 Black Sea Film Festival (with Marijeta Božović, Marta Figlerowicz, Mihaela Mihailova and Ingrid Nordgaard). Yale University. Screening of contemporary films from the region as part of Columbia University’s year-long Black Sea Networks: Rethinking Slavic Studies in the Global Age initiative led by Prof. Valentina Izmirliyeva. 2016 Russian Film Series: The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov (with Marijeta Božović, Oksana Chefranova, and Vika Paranyuk). Yale University. 2015 Polish Documentary Film Festival (with Krystyna Iłłakowicz). Yale University. Retrospective of Polish documentary cinema from 1956 to the present day. Guest filmmakers in attendance from Poland: Hanna Polak and Marta Dzido. 2015 Yiddish Film Festival (with Yahel Matalon and Zelda Roland). Yale University. Screening of classic Yiddish films provided by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University. Keynote address by J. Hoberman. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 2017 Gender in Revolution (with Carol Mann and Ella Lamakh). Co-organized by Women in War (Paris) and Democracy for Development (Kiev) at the Southern Ukrainian Pedagogical University (Odessa). 2014 Eye Candy: Consuming Moving Images at the Cinema and Beyond (with Swagato Charavorty Regina Karl, Noriko Morisue, and Ila Tyagi). Film & Media Studies graduate student conference. Yale University. SHPOLBERG CV 5 CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED 2019 “Nature, Nationalism, and Nostalgia: Polish Environmental Cinema 1968-1981,” ASEEES. San Francisco, CA. 2019 Panel Chair, “Revolution in the Margins: Re/Examining the Works of Soviet and Post- Soviet Women Documentarians,” ASEEES. San Francisco, CA. 2019 “Feminist Filmmaking Under Socialism: The Case of Ewa Partum and Natalia LL” Panel on “Global Constellations of Feminist Experimental Film and Video: Dislocating Western Perspectives.” SCMS. Seattle, Washington. 2018 “Feminist Documentary in Late Socialist Poland,” panel on “Women Filmmakers and Nonfiction Film.” ASEEES. Boston, MA. 2017 Respondent, panel on “Transgression in Polish Cinema.” ASEEES. Chicago, Illinois. 2017 “Beyond Repair: the Laboring Female Body in Polish Cinema 1968-1980.” Panel on “’The Right to Appear’: Polish Cinema and the Body Politic during Late Socialism.” ASEEES. Chicago, Illinois. 2017 “552% of the Quota: Deconstructing the Stakhanovite Worker in the Films of Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Wiszniewski.” Panel on “Cinematic Labor in Southeast and Central Europe, 1945-1989.” SCMS. Chicago, Illinois. 2016 “Edges of Empire: Polish Documentaries About Russia.” Panel on “Contemporary Polish Film: Languages of (Dis)Engagement.” ASEEES. Washington, D.C. 2016 “Children in Soviet World War II Films: Images of Heroic Victimhood.” Panel on “Children at War: Performance,
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