Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes is a junior proctor (2020–2021), official fellow and tutor at Clare Hall, a visiting lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, a member of the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, an affiliated scholar at the Centre of South Asian Studies, and a member of the Cambridge Digital Humanities Network, University of Cambridge. While her research centres on British imperial studies, her primary work is as a visual and digital humanities scholar. In both her research and teaching at Cambridge, she has made extensive use of and assisted with the establishment of online film archives of amateur (colonial) media such as Images of Empire (Bristol), Colonial Film (London) and the online archive held by the Centre of South Asian Studies. She is the founder of Amateur Cinema Studies Network, the first international project promoting amateur cinema/media studies. She has published extensively on issues of imperial visual culture, gender and new media.
