Masha Salazkina

Masha Salazkina teaches at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico (2009), World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities and Solidarities in the Global Cold War (2023), and Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Popular Culture (2024), and co-editor of Sound Speech Music in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2015), Global Approaches to Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (2021) and Teaching Migration in Literature, Film, and Media (2025). Most recently she has co-edited, with Matthew Croombs, a volume Cinemas of Global Solidarity (2026), and with Dalila Missero, a special issue of Feminist Media Histories on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism.