Rate Professor Julia Alekseyeva

Academic Background

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University, 2017.

Research Interests

Global media and radical leftist politics, focusing on film, comics, television, and digital media from Japan, France, and the former Soviet Union; avant-garde documentary traditions in the 1960s; Soviet avant-garde film, semi-documentary in East Asia, Pink Film, transnational animation, and the French New Wave.

Appointments

Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania; previously taught at Harvard University and Brooklyn College.

Awards

Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Assistant Professor.

Publications

• Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
• Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, graphic novel, 2017.
• Articles in Film History, The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, ARTMargins, The Sixties, and others.

Additional Contributions

Author-illustrator of award-winning graphic narratives; chapters in anthologies by Bloomsbury, Routledge, and Rowman & Littlefield.