Dr Joan Neuberger is Earl E. Sheffield Regents Professor of History Emerita in the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book, This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia won the American Historical Association’s George L. Mosse Book Prize. Her current research explores the politics of nature in Eisenstein’s films and writing. She is also working on several related projects to create an accessible digital library of Eisenstein’s publications and to digitally map his intellectual world. Neuberger was born in Stuyvesant Town and is currently living in Brooklyn and is enjoying re-exploring her hometown.
