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Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London

Jeremy Hicks is a historian of Russian culture and film at QMUL. His research interests are in documentary film in Russia and the former Soviet Union and its interactions with history, in the past and present. He has also published on Soviet film during World War Two, representations of the Holocaust in Russian and Soviet film, the documentary film pioneer, Dziga Vertov and connections between Soviet film and humanitarian film

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London

Education

  • 2000 
    UCL, PhD

Publications

  • 2021
    Victory Banner Over the Reichstag: Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia’s Contested Memory of World War II ,
  • 2012
    First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-46,
  • 2007
    Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film,

Professional Memberships

  • British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)