Irina Tcherneva, a film scholar, specializes in Soviet documentary film and photography and is senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her research focuses on the socio-economic history of documentary cinema, the history of film audiences and film technique, and the role of visual documents and artworks in the Second World War and in postwar trials. Her recent publications include: Témoigner par l’image : photographie, co-edited with Paul Bernard-Nouraud and Luba Jurgenson (PETRA, 2024); Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People’s Justice?, co-edited with Eric Le Bourhis and Vanessa Voisin (Rochester University Press, 2022); a special issue of the journal Conserveries mémorielles, “The Cinema Goes to War: Screens and Propaganda in the USSR (1939–1949),” co-edited with Valérie Pozner (no. 24, 2020). Irina Tcherneva is also translator and co-editor of theoretical texts by Dziga Vertov.
