Research Areas

Maya’s research focuses on women filmmakers working in the French language. Her work has been published in Camera Obscura, French Screen Studies, Éditions de la Sorbonne, and The Women Film Pioneers Project. She is currently writing a book on the films of director Alice Diop. 

Biography

Maya has been teaching as a lecturer in the department since the fall of 2016. She completed her PhD in French/Francophone Studies at Northwestern University. 

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Selected Publications

« Le regard actif de Faustine ». Nina Companeez : petit écran et grande histoire, édité par Aurore Renaut et Myriam Tsikounas, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2024, https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/132783

Making “Women's News”: French Feminists of la Femme nouvelle (1934–36) and the Newsreel Magazine Actualités féminines. Camera Obscura 1 September 2023; 38 (2 (113)): 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654871

"Reconsidering Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise through editor Marguerite Renoir." French Screen Studies (2020): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/26438941.2020.1741988