Lora Maslenitsyna

Lora Maslenitsyna is a PhD candidate in the combined program for Film and Media Studies and Slavic and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures. She focuses on interpreting synthetic media through humanistic and critical inquiry. She is broadly interested in nonfiction film and media, postcolonial theory, socialist and postsocialist literature and cinema, and historical identity and memory. Her peer-reviewed research has been published in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema and she has contributed to the edited volume, The New Russian Documentary: Reclaiming Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism. She has curated a film series at Yale titled “World Documentaries Today” and has written for publications including Public Books, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Words Without Borders, and Full Stop.

Department: Slavic Languages and Literature; Film and Media Studies