Natalija Majsova is an associate professor in cultural studies at the University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include memory studies, cultural theory, post-socialist cultural studies, and film studies. She is currently the main co-editor of the Družboslovne razprave/Social Science Forum journal and principal investigator on the ARIS-HRZZ Slovenian-Croatian research project MEMPOP (2023-2026) that studies the mnemonic aesthetics and strategies at work in contemporary popular culture. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies from the University of Ljubljana (2015). In 2014, she was a visiting researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2017-2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp. In 2018-2020, she was a researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain, where she took part in the consortium project B-magic: The Magic Lantern and Its Cultural Impact in Belgium 1830-1940. Her work has appeared in international academic journals, such as Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Popular Music and Society, and Družboslovne razprave, and in edited volumes published by Brill, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan. Her book Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures was published with Lexington Books in 2021.
