Maria Zalewska

Maria Zalewska is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a 2016-2018 Mellon Ph.D. Fellow in the Digital Humanities. Her research interests include cinematic representations of the Holocaust; documentary film; media memory; national and transnational modes of memorialisation; politics of technologised memory; place and space in cinema; history as film/film as history; digital humanities; and political economy of film. Her dissertation project, ‘#Holocaust: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration in The Digital Age,’ focuses on the relationship between interactivity, (documentary) film studies, and Holocaust memory.