Anna Toropova completed her PhD at University College London. Before taking up her current post as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the cinema, culture, and medical history of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1953. She is the author of numerous articles on the emotional repertoire of Stalin-era cinema, early Soviet studies of spectators, and the interface of cinema, science, and medicine in revolutionary Russia.