Part-Time Lecturer in Cinema & Media Studies
Aida Vidan is a specialist in Slavic literatures and film and documentary filmmaker. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University where she previously taught in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has also served as faculty in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University and the NFLC at the University of Maryland. Her research has been supported by the American Councils of International Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. In addition to publications on Slavic oral traditional literature and language teaching methodology, her scholarship on film focuses on women directors, experimental film, space and ideology as well as perceptions of authority and freedom in socialist and post-socialist film. She is the author/editor of four books and numerous articles and has directed several short and feature-length films.
Her full scholarly profile is available here.