Ian Christie is a media historian and curator, currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 2006 and has been a visiting professor and fellow at universities in Oxford, Tampa, Stockholm, Canberra, Paris and Olomouc, and at Gresham College London 2017–21. He has written books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam; and most recently Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (2020, University of Chicago Press) and The Eisenstein Universe (Christie & Vassilieva 2021, Bloomsbury). Among the exhibitions he has contributed to are Modernism: Designing a New World (V&A London, 2006) and Revolution: Russian Art 1917–32 (Royal Academy, 2017). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.