Irina Tcherneva

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 history of documentary cinema, of film audiences and techniques, and on the role of visual documents and artworks in the Second World War and in postwar trials.

Her recent publications include Photographier les violences extrêmes, 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); Perezhit’ vojnu: Kinoindustrija v SSSR 1939–1949 [Overcome the War : the Film Industry in the USSR], co-edited with Vanessa Voisin and Valérie Pozner (Rosspen, 2018); and 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).