NATALIJA
MAJSOVA
Natalija Majsova is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana. She teaches creative writing, theories of culture, and futures studies, and is the principal investigator of MEMPOP – Mnemonic Aesthetics and Strategies in Popular culture (2023-2026), a research project co-funded by the Slovenian and Croatian research agencies.
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Her research cuts across the fields of memory and futures studies, film and media studies, heritage interpretation, and (post-)socialist popular cultures. She is especially interested in the mechanisms of collective memory and remembrance practices at the nexus of projections of the future and imaginaries of the past, and in how gradual technological transformations contribute to nostalgias for past utopias.
Apart from numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes, she has authored two books, including Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age: Memorable Futures (Lexington Books, 2021), co-edited the volume Faith in a Beam of Light: Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1860-1940 (Brepols, 2022) with Sabine Lenk, and co-edits the journal Social Science Forum with Tanja Oblak Črnič. With Katja Čičigoj and Jasmina Šepetavc, she has co-edited a special issue of the journal Feminist Encounters on feminist technoimaginaries (forthcoming, 2025).