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Meta Mazaj

Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies

Fisher-Bennett Hall 210
215-898-6364

Office Hours

Tuesday & Thursday 12:00-2:00 pm

Meta Mazaj is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at Penn. She has published on contemporary world cinema, critical theory, Balkan cinema, new European cinema, Eastern European cinema. She is the author of National and Cynicism in Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (VDM Verlag, 2008), co-author, with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2011), and co-author, with Shekhar Deshpande, of World Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2018). Her recent courses include: Global Film Theory, Global Genres, Transnational Cinema, Film Festivals, Cinema of the Balkans, Historical Film, American Independent Cinema.

Publications

Courses Taught

spring 2025

ENGL 2911.401 American Independents  

spring 2024

ENGL 2930.401 Transnational Cinema  
ENGL 2942.401 Romantic Comedy  

fall 2023

spring 2023

ENGL 2900.401 Global Film Theory  

fall 2022

ENGL 2911.401 American Independents  

spring 2022

ENGL 291.401 Film Festivals  
ENGL 292.401 Romantic Comedy  

fall 2021

ENGL 592.401 New World Cinema  

spring 2021

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 305.401 Global Film Theory  

fall 2020

ENGL 291.401 American Independents  

spring 2020

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 292.401 Romantic Comedy  

fall 2019

ENGL 291.401 Transnational Cinema  

spring 2019

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 305.401 Global Film Theory  

fall 2018

ENGL 291.401 American Independents  
ENGL 292.401 Global Genres  

spring 2018

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 305.401 Global Film Theory  

fall 2017

ENGL 291.401 Transnational Cinema  
ENGL 292.401 Romantic Comedy  

spring 2017

ENGL 291.401 Realism & World Cinema  

fall 2016

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 292.401 Historical Films  

spring 2016

ENGL 095.401 Intro to Film Theory  
ENGL 292.401 Film Festivals  

fall 2015

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 292.401 American Independents  

spring 2015

ENGL 091.601 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 292.401 Film Festivals  
ENGL 392.401 Transnational Cinema  

fall 2014

ENGL 291.401 History in Film  
ENGL 292.401 Romantic Comedy  

spring 2014

ENGL 095.401 Indroduction to Film Theory  
ENGL 292.401 World Cinema  

fall 2013

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  

spring 2013

ENGL 095.401 Intro to Film Theory  
ENGL 392.401 Transnational Cinema  

fall 2012

ENGL 292.401 Romantic Comedy  
ENGL 292.402 Cinema of the Balkans  

spring 2012

ENGL 095.401 Intro to Film Theory  
ENGL 492.640 World Cinema  

fall 2011

ENGL 091.401 World Film History to 1945  
ENGL 292.402 Masters of European Cinema  

spring 2011

ENGL 095.401 Introduction to Film Theory  
ENGL 292.401 Transnational Cinema  

fall 2010

ENGL 016.403 Romantic Comedy  
ENGL 292.402 American Independents  

spring 2010

fall 2009

ENGL 295.403 Cinema of the Balkans  

spring 2009

ENGL 292.402 Cinema of the Balkans  

fall 2008

spring 2008

ENGL 092.601 Film Analysis and Methods  
ENGL 292.401 Cinema of the Balkans  

fall 2007

ENGL 092.401 Film Analysis and Methods  

spring 2007

ENGL 091.401 Film History  
ENGL 092.601 Film Analysis and Methods  

fall 2006

ENGL 091.601 Film History  
ENGL 292.402 Poets of Cinema