Margaux Fitoussi is an anthropologist and filmmaker.

She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia University in New York. The nonfiction films she made during her doctorate are an extension of her anthropological interests in history and memory, the migration of people and ideas, and the legacies of colonial violence. They have screened at museums like the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, film festivals like the Tallin Black Nights Film Festival and Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride as well as in galleries such as Cultural Pinakotheke in Sao Paulo, SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, NYU Gallatin Galleries in New York, and the 32 Bis in Tunis. Alongside her filmmaking, her academic writing and translations have been published by presses such as the University of Massachusetts, Palgrave Macmillan, Liverpool University, and the American University in Cairo.

She completed a Master’s degree in experimental cinema at the Laboratorio Audiovisual de Creación y Práctica Contemporánea in Madrid. Her experimental work, collective and individual, has been shown at the S(8): Mostra de Cinema Periférico and Rizoma: Festival Internacional de Cine & Cultura Entrelazada. She also curated an avant-garde film screening at the Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

She is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and History at the University of California Irvine, with an affiliation in Film and Media Studies.