Laura-Zoë Humphreys is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University and affiliated faculty with the Department of Anthropology and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of Fidel between the Lines: Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema (Duke UP, 2019). Her current research project is an ethnographic history of analog through digital video and media piracy in Cuba, carried out in collaboration with Daymar Valdés Frigola (research specialist, Cinemateca de Cuba), and Sheyla Pool (documentary director and sound engineer). This research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Louisiana Board of Regents (ATLAS grant). With a focus on Cuba in its transnational geo-political contexts, she has also published on the reception of South Korean popular culture, digital technologies and disinformation, and the bureaucrat comedy film genre in Cuba and the Soviet Union. Her publications can be found in Social Text, Discourse, boundary 2, the International Journal of Popular Culture, Mediapolis, and Cultural Anthropology Fieldsites.