Meta Mazaj

Meta Mazaj is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning her studies at the Faculty of the Arts, the University in Ljubljana, she obtained her undergraduate and M.A. degrees from Arcadia University, and Ph.D. from Temple University. Her writings on new European cinema, Eastern European cinema, Slovenian cinema, and contemporary world cinema, have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Cineaste, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Transnational Cinemas, Studies in World Cinema, and Situations.  She is the author of National and Cynicism in the Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (VDM Verlag, 2008), co-author of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White; Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010), and co-author of World Cinema: A Critical Introduction (with Shekhar Deshpande; Routledge, 2018).

Research projects: Mazaj’s research is mainly in the field of contemporary world cinema, focusing on questions of transnational dynamics of world cinema, politics of visibility and invisibility, women’s world cinema, film festival studies, global film theory, global genres, minor and peripheral cinemas. She is currently working on the project of deglobalization and world cinema.