Joan Neuberger is an American historian. She obtained a bachelor's degree inRussian literature atGrinnell College in 1975, and a doctorate in Russian history atStanford University at 1985. She now teaches at theUniversity of Texas at Austin, where she focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian/Soviet history, with a special interest in the history of cinema and other visual cultures.
Neuberger's publications include:
Hooliganism: Crime and Culture in St Petersburg, 1900-1914 (1993)
Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion (2003)
Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 (withRobin Winks, 2005)
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (2019) (nominated for thePushkin Book Prize)
She has also co-edited the following anthologies:
Imitations of Life: Melodrama in Russia (with Louise McReynolds, 2001)