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4.08/20/2025

Makes learning interactive and engaging.

4.05/21/2025

Creates a welcoming and inclusive environment.

4.02/27/2025

Always clear, concise, and insightful.

5.02/7/2025

Makes complex ideas simple and clear.

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About Julia

Julia Vassilieva is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University. She holds a PhD in cultural studies from Monash University, a Doctor of Psychology (DPsych) from Swinburne University, and a BA (Hons). Her research intersects film history, history of science, psychology, and neuroscience of the moving image, with a particular focus on cinema and neuroscience, film narrative, the Russian montage school, and Sergei Eisenstein. Vassilieva leads the Screen Histories and Cultures Research Program and has produced 44 research outputs between 2006 and 2023, including 17 articles, 15 book chapters, and 3 edited books. She served as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow from 2016 to 2019, funding her project 'Cinema and the Brain: Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria’s Collaboration,' which explored the relationship between cinema, mind, and brain.