Maria Fosheim Lund is a Ph.D. fellow in the Department of Media & Communication at the University of Oslo, where she is researching the transnational film career of actress-producer Aud Egede-Nissen, who worked in the German, Danish and Norwegian film industries, during the twenty-year period 1913-1934. Lund has worked as a project manager on the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University, and is currently on leave from the National Library of Norway, where she has contributed to the Nordic Women in Film project and co-edited the books Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (2017) and Silent Ibsen: Transnational Film Adaptation in the 1910s and 1920s (2022) with Eirik Frisvold Hanssen.
Lund has contributed to the NOS-HS funded workshop series Feminist Film History in Scandinavia: New Approaches, Methodologies, and Connections (2022-2023), and has published frequently on film history with a focus on women and film historiography.
Her research interests include feminist film history, early cinema, silent cinema, Ibsen film adaptations, film historiography, melodrama studies, costume design, women and work in cinema.
Maria Fosheim Lund has worked extensively with film and curatorial practices at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Museum of the Moving Image (both New York) and Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo) and as a freelancer. She has also co-edited the film journal wuxia.no and contributed film criticism to Norwegian newspapers (Aftenposten, Morgenbladet) and other publications.
Awards and scholarships
- Coalition of Women in German Zantop Travel Award, 2025
- Laura Bassi Scholarship Editorial Funding, 2025
- Thorleif Dahls legat for historisk forskning, 2025
- The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowships Fund (SYLFF), 2023
- Den norsk-tyske Willy Brandt-stiftelsen prosjektstøtte, 2023
- The ERASMUS+ mobility training grant, University of Oslo/Södertörn University, Stockholm, 2023