Lilia Topouzova is a postdoctoral fellow in Gender Studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in Brown University (from August 2013). She is a historian and a documentary filmmaker whose academic research explores the history and legacy of communism in Eastern Europe. She specializes in the history of the Bulgarian gulag and the post-socialist forms of memorial representation of the experience of political violence. Her research interests include transitional justice, comparative mass violence, and post-trauma remembrance, explored through the interdisciplinary lens of gender and cinema. The basis of her work is a combination between extensive archival research and years-long fieldwork of oral history interviews with former guards and survivors of the Bulgarian camp system. She is the writer of the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary, The Mosquito Problem & Other Stories which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Human Rights Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2007. He second documentary feature, Saturnia, premiered at the 2012 Moving Image Film Festival where it received the Toronto Showcase Award. Her research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and the Toronto Arts Council.