Ilona Hongisto is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney; Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Media Theory and Aesthetics at the University of Turku, Finland; and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Documentary Film at Aalto University, Finland. Hongisto works across film and media studies, specializing in documentary cinema. Her most recent work focuses on fabulation in post-1989 Eastern European documentary cinema. Her publications include the monograph Soul of the Documentary: Framing, Expression, Ethics (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and peer-reviewed articles in such journals as Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Cultural Studies Review, and Transformations.