Leshu Torchin

2012-13 Fellow

Leshu Torchin (MA/PhD in Cinema Studies, NYU and Certificate in Culture and Media, NYU) is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews (UK), where she works on the subject of screen media, genocide, and human rights advocacy. Co-author of Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe and co-editor of Film Festivals and Activism, she has contributed to a range of journals such as Third Text, Film & History, American Anthropologist, and Cineaste and writes popular analyses of cultural phenomena for Souciant. Her monograph, Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide in Film, Video and the Internet, is due out with University of Minnesota Press November 2012. Her current work focuses on the representation of economic rights as human rights and the formation of a visual rhetoric of economic justice.