Lora Mjolsness Michele LeighMichele Leigh is an independent scholar writing on gender in film and television. A 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar in Russia, Leigh conducted research for a manuscript on female industrial labor in the film industry prior to 1917. She has published artiles on historiography, early Russian cinema, and films of the Thaw. Lora Mjolsness is a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of European Studies and the Director of Program in Russian Studies. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on Russian and Soviet cinema, the history of Soviet Animation, Russian folklore and children's literature. Read More Read Less