Sorbonne University (France) / French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) (Czechia)
Anastasia Mamaeva is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University and an associate researcher at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague. Her dissertation explores references to “Western” pop cultures in Czechoslovak cinema during the long 1970s. As an artist-researcher and science communicator, her work engages with the aesthetics and broader material culture of production design in the genre cinemas of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union during late socialism. Selective publications: – “Making Films Fantastiques in 1970s Czechoslovakia: Juraj Herz’s Testimony,” Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly, De Gruyter, 2/2026 (upcoming) – “Le Secret d’un grand conteur (1971) et les transferts culturels franco-tchécoslovaques,” Romanistica Comeniana, 1/2024, Bratislava, Comenius University, 2024.