Birgit Beumers

Birgit Beumers is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University (UK). She is currently working on a research project on the film industries of Central Asia at the University of Passau (Germany). Her publications include A History of Russian Cinema (2009); as editor, A Companion to Russian Cinema (2016) and Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories (with Gulnara Abikeyeva and Michael Rouland, 2013). She is series editor for KINO (Bloomsbury) and KinoSputniks (Intellect), and editor-in-chief of the journals KinoKultura (online) and Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (T&F). She is a member of FIPRESCI, where she is responsible for Central Asia.