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Claire Alice Jean Knight, Ph.D. is a British historian, a lecturer in Russian at the University of Bristol and an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her Ph.D. on late Stalin-era Soviet cinema in 2014.

Claire Knight was born in Hamilton, Canada. She received her BA with Honours in History at McMaster University and MA in History at the University of Toronto, where she also completed B.Ed. in History & Social Science. She has lectured at Cambridge and King’s College London on late Imperial Russian and Soviet history, History & Memory, and historical methodologies. Her publications deal with Anglo-Soviet cultural relations during WWII and trophy films—Hollywood and Nazi films captured by the Red Army in 1945 and ‘corrected' for viewing by Soviet audiences. Claire was the Max Hayward Visiting Fellow at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she worked a monograph entitled, Stalin’s Final Films: Soviet cinema and postwar Stalinism.

Recent publications:


 * Knight, C, 2018, ‘Nelli Morozova on Censors, Censorship and the Soviet Film Famine, 1948-52’. Slavonic and East European Review, vol 96., pp. 704-730.
 * Knight, C, 2017, ‘Stalin's Trophy Films, 1946-56: A Resource (revised and updated)’. KinoKultura.
 * Knight, C, 2017, ‘Enemy Films on Soviet Screens: Trophy Films during the Early Cold War, 1947-52’. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol 18., pp. 125-149.
 * Knight, C, 2015, ‘Stalin’s Trophy Films, 1947-52: A Resource’. KinoKultura, vol 48.
 * Knight, C, 2013, ‘The Making of the Soviet Ally in British Wartime Popular Press’. Journalism Studies, vol 14., pp. 476-490.
 * Knight, C, 2012, ‘Mrs. Churchill Goes to Russia: The Wartime Gift-Exchange between Britain and the Soviet Union’. in: Anthony Cross (eds.) A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, pp. 253-268.
 * Knight, C, 2011, ‘Book Review of Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin by Jamie Miller’. European History Quarterly, vol 41., pp. 352-352.
 * Knight, C, 2011, ‘Book Review of Chapaev by Julian Graffy’. European History Quarterly, vol 41., pp. 528-529.
 * Knight, C, 2010, ‘Book Review of Filming the Unfilmable: Casper Wrede’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Ben Hellman and Andrei Rogachevskii’. The Forum (previously: The Scotland-Russia Forum Review), vol 24.