Joan Neuberger is an American historian. She obtained a bachelor's degree in
Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were c ...
at
Grinnell College in 1975, and a doctorate in Russian history at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
at 1985. She now teaches at the
University of Texas at Austin, where she focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian/Soviet history, with a special interest in the history of cinema and other visual cultures.
Neuberger's publications include:
* Hooliganism: Crime and Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1914 (1993)
* Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion (2003)
* Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 (with Robin Winks, 2005)
* This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (2019) (nominated for the
Pushkin Book Prize)
She has also co-edited the following anthologies:
* Imitations of Life: Melodrama in Russia (with Louise McReynolds, 2001)
* Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (with Valerie Kivelson, 2008)
* Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser (with Gary Marker, Marshall Poe, Susan Rupp, 2010)
*The Flying Carpet: Studies on Eisenstein and Russian Cinema in Honor of Naum Kleiman (with Antonio Somaini, 2017)
She is the founding editor of the history website ''
Not Even Past'', and co-founder of the podcast ''15 Minute History''.
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American historians
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Living people
Grinnell College alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty