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).

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

2020 “Intermediality and the Staging of History in Stanisław Wyspiański’s play Wesele (1901) and ’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 .” 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 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

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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 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 (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.

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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 .” 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, Reception and Ideology in Cinema.” SCMS. Atlanta, Georgia.

2015 “Microphone Test: Voicing National Disillusionment in Poland after 1960.” Panel on “Sonic Breakdown: Documenting the Voices of National Fracture After 1960.” Visible Evidence XXII. Toronto, Canada.

2014 “Polish Documentary Film 1956-1960”. Fifth World Congress on Polish Studies. University of Warsaw, Poland.

2014 “Family Matters: The Personal Cinema of Alan Berliner.” New Haven Festival of Arts & Ideas.

2013 “Towards ‘Real’ Realism: Polish Documentary Film Strategies 1956–1960.” Visible Evidence. Stockholm, Sweden.

INVITED LECTURES AND ROUND TABLE TALKS

2020 Talk: “The Stagnant Bloc: Socialism in the Films of Kira Muratova,” colloquium on the work of Kira Muratova, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

2020 Talk: “The Cinema of Solidarity: Theory and Practice,” University of Richmond, Film Studies Program.

2020 Talk: “Materialities of the Nuclear Image: Capturing Chernobyl on Film,” University SHPOLBERG CV 6

of North Carolina—Wilmington, Department of Film Studies and California State University—Long Beach.

2019 Respondent: Presentation by Hunter Vaughan of his book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies. Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College.

2019 Talk: “The Subversive Power of Domestic Labor: Feminist Filmmaking in Poland 1968-1981.” University of Massachusetts—Amherst, Department of Comparative Literature.

2018 Talk: “Black Sea Film: Infrastructure, Publics, Politics” Symposium on the Culture of Post-Socialism: Black Sea Horizons. The Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

2015 Round Table: “Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity,” Circa 2001: European Cinema at the Millenium, annual conference hosted by the European Studies Council at Yale University.

2014 Round Table: “Open Form Cinema,” New Wave Europe: Cinema Circa 1962, annual conference hosted by the European Studies Council at Yale University.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS

2016–2019 Principal Investigator, CinéCircuits: Mapping Film Festivals, Yale University.

The project developed an interactive map of film festival proliferation. Received two Seed Grants from the Yale University Digital Humanities Lab. Findings presented at:

2017 “Beyond Boundaries: Second Annual Symposium on Hybrid Scholarship at Yale,” Yale University.

2016 “Places, Spaces, Sites: Mapping Critical Intersections in the Digital Humanities,” Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas.

2016 Organizing Committee, Digital Humanities || Russian and East European Studies, symposium organized by Professor Marijeta Bożović at Yale University. Day–long workshop dedicated to research, pedagogy, dissemination, and archiving.

CREATIVE WORK IN FILM & VIDEO

2019 Co-director, Last Days at the Duncan, feature documentary about the transformation of one of New Haven’s last single-residency occupancy hotels into a luxury boutique hotel and former residents’ search for affordable housing.

2016 Director, editor, producer. A Few More Mistakes: Noël at Ninety. 22–minute documentary portrait of a French art collector just before his 90th birthday. Addresses questions of aging and loss, as well as finding joy in life, love, and art.

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2012 Third Assistant to the director, Gare du Nord. Fiction feature directed by Claire Simon, based on earlier documentary work by the director. Paris, France. 2012 Script-writer, Lekh Lekha: collaborative video installation. Shown as part of the “Tranches de carrés sur tranches de cercles” exhibition at the Saline Royale d’Arc-et- Senans (UNESCO World Heritage Site), France.

2011 Director, editor, producer. Orange Hangover, feature–length documentary about the after-effects of the Orange Revolution in . Official Selection at the Boston International Film Festival.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

2016–present Peabody Awards Screening Committee, Documentary Category 2019 Research Proposal Reviewer, National Science Center (Narodowy Centrum Nauki), Poland 2016–2017 Ad Hoc Reviewer for NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 2016 External Conference Proposal Reviewer, Colloque Jeunes Chercheurs 2016, Equipe de recherche CLI, Université Paris 8 2015–2016 Co-organizer, Russian Film Series, Yale University 2013–2014 Coordinator, Open Forum Lecture Series, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Visible Evidence

LANGUAGES

English, Russian — native French — fluent Spanish, Polish — intermediate Hebrew — basic