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Maria Loftus
A graduate of French and Irish from NUI Galway, Maria Loftus obtained a Maîtrise and a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies from Université de Poitiers. She completed her doctoral thesis, entitled 'Le cinéma documentaire en Afrique noire: du documentaire colonial au documentaire africain (1899–1985)'/'Documentary Cinema in Black Africa : from colonial documentary to African documentary (1899–1985)' at Université de Strasbourg in June 2009. Her research interests pertain to media representations of immigrant communities, transnational cinema, postcolonial visual fallout, and innovations in documentary film practice. Maria spent five years teaching Irish cinema, anglophone documentary, and translation courses at Paris-Diderot, Paris 7. She also taught cinema related courses at La FEMIS in Paris and at University College Dublin. From 2007 to 2010, Maria delivered a course on various communications platforms to Master's students in Corporate and Institutional Communciations at the CELSA, Sorbonne IV. She is currently teaching French language, literature and European cinema in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural studies, Dublin City University.