Sylvie Lindeperg

Sylvie Lindeperg studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and earned a PhD in History. Since 2008, she has held the Chair in Film History at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. She has been a visiting professor at universities around the world, including the Federal University of São Paulo, Middlebury College, New York University, and Freie Universität Berlin, among others. She has authored several books, including Nuit et brouillard: un film dans l’Histoire (2007), La Voie des Images (2013), and Nuremberg, la bataille des images (2021). Her research centres on the connections between cinema, memory, and history, with a particular focus on the Second World War. She draws inspiration from the intersection of history and art history in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall, and Daniel Arasse, revitalising a field pioneered by Marc Ferro, Michèle Lagny, and Pierre Sorlin. Lindeperg was also one of the first researchers to explore the relationship between digital techniques and the writing of history.