Rate My Professor Julia Vassilieva

Julia Vassilieva is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University. She holds a PhD in cultural studies from Monash University, a Doctor of Psychology (DPsych) from Swinburne University, and a BA (Hons). Her research intersects film history, history of science, psychology, and neuroscience of the moving image, with a particular focus on cinema and neuroscience, film narrative, the Russian montage school, and Sergei Eisenstein. Vassilieva leads the Screen Histories and Cultures Research Program and has produced 44 research outputs between 2006 and 2023, including 17 articles, 15 book chapters, and 3 edited books. She served as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow from 2016 to 2019, funding her project 'Cinema and the Brain: Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria’s Collaboration,' which explored the relationship between cinema, mind, and brain.

Vassilieva's key publications include the monograph Narrative Psychology: Identity, Transformation and Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); co-edited volumes After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2012, with Con Verevis), The Eisenstein Universe (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, with Ian Christie), and Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (Amsterdam University Press, 2020, with Deane Williams). She has contributed chapters such as 'OTKAZ (OTKAZ): from expressive movement to a figure of thought' (2023) and 'Hypnosis, psychotechnics and magic of art' (2021). As Editor-in-Chief of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies since December 2019, she advances videographic scholarship in film studies. Vassilieva has organized the symposium 'Eisenstein for the Twenty-First Century' (2018, Monash Prato Centre) and co-convened the First Conference of the Eisenstein International Network (2019, Paris). She has delivered invited talks at events including the Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand conference (2020) and Method and More: Eisenstein International Network Second Conference (2021). Her work contributes to interdisciplinary dialogues in film theory and cognitive science, and she accepts PhD students in film and neuroscience, film narrative, and the Russian montage school.