Anikó Imre is an Associate Professor in Critical Studies and in the Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice Doctoral Program (iMAP) at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California. She has published widely on media globalization, (post)socialism and identities. She is the author of Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Post-Communist Media Cultures (MIT Press, 2009) editor of East European Cinemas (AFI Film Readers, Routledge, 2005), The Blackwell Companion to East European Cinemas (2012), and co-editor of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (Palgrave, 2007), Popular Television in the New Europe (Routledge, 2012) of special issues of The Journal of Popular Film and Television on Television Entertainment in the New Europe (2012), the European Journal of Cultural Studies on Media Globalization and Post-Socialist Identities (May 2009), and of Feminist Media Studies on Transcultural Feminist Mediations (December 2009). She co-edits the Palgrave book series Global Cinemas and is on the editorial board of the journal Studies in East European Cinema.