DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Tassadith Lombard Mammar (she/her) is an ENS Visiting Scholar and French lecturer at Northwestern University for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Born and raised in Paris, she completed 3 years of preparatory class and received her BA in German studies from Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) before engaging in film studies and theory at the graduate level, both at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds an MA in Film studies from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research so far has focused on issues related to documentary, scriptwriting, archival footage, oral history and genocide studies. She wrote a thesis entitled Memory through the camera lens: a lesson in history? Filming the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, working closely with material from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and from the USC Shoah Foundation – Visual History Archive.

She also recently completed an internship at the CNC (French National Film Center) at the European and International Affairs Directorate, working in the Co-production, Cooperation and World Cinema department.

She strongly believes in the importance of documenting people’s life stories and in the ability of documentaries to have a political and social impact on communities.

Tassadith is an eclectic movie lover and can be found watching Frederick Wiseman’s work and French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem’s documentaries, as well as Todd Haynes’ melodramas and Netflix feel-good series Heartstopper. She is also a huge badminton fan and loves to cheer on the Team USA swimming team!