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Dr Emily-Rose Baker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southampton's Department of English and the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. Her research focuses on Holocaust legacies, neighborly violence, and horror tropes in Central and Eastern European cinema, funded by the British Academy.
- Education: WRoCAH-funded PhD at University of Sheffield (2021)
- Prior Role: Visiting Assistant Professor of Film at University of Texas at Dallas' Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
Her research explores intersections between Holocaust memory, eco-memory, and horror aesthetics in post-communist cinema. Current projects include a monograph on post-communist Holocaust representation and co-organizing the 2023 interdisciplinary conference 'Horror and the Gothic in Holocaust Representation.'
Key publications address: necropolitics in Polish cinema, eco-memory frameworks, and spectral representations of Jewish trauma in post-Holocaust films. She collaborates with scholars like Amanda Crawley Jackson and James Jordan.
Emily-Rose supervises PhD students and contributes to academic networks through editorial work for Holocaust Studies journal. Her methodology combines film theory, psychoanalysis, and environmental humanities to analyze post-traumatic geographies.
