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Neda Genova is a media and cultural theorist whose interdisciplinary research is concerned with exploring questions such as abstraction, mediation and scale; developing interdisciplinary methodologies in research and teaching; digital visual cultures; and the politics of post-socialist transformation. She鈥檚 interested in probing out collaborative methods of knowledge production in and beyond academia.
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Research
Research interests
- Visual cultures
- Digital media & culture
- Interdisciplinary methodologies
- Post-socialist studies
- Feminist and post-colonial theory and practice
Current research
My research is interdisciplinary and is situated at the intersection of media theory, cultural and post-socialist studies.
In my most recent work, I have explored a wide array of questions such as: What are the temporal politics of humour in the context of Bulgarian post-communism, and can we conceive of a capacity of laughter to interrupt a colonial regime of belatedness and lagging behind? What kind of aesthetic practices of temporal synchronisation and heterogeneisation can we discern on the Facebook group 鈥淰iew from the Window鈥, created during the coronavirus pandemic? How do digital memes mediate and reconfigure urban space in Sofia? How can we re-imagine the terrain of post-communism from the vantage point of practices of commoning, as harbouring both aesthetic and political potential? How are the mediation of vision and abstraction as a material and experimental practice narrated Philip Pullman鈥檚 children鈥檚 novel 鈥淭he Amber Spyglass鈥 (2000)?
Theoretically, I am particularly indebted to the work of A. N. Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
I am currently completing two book projects: the monograph 鈥淧olitics of Surfaces. Transformations of Urban Space in Post-Communist Sofia鈥 (forthcoming with Goldsmiths Press), as well as the edited volume 鈥淧ost-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons鈥, which brings together collaborative aesthetic interventions.
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I am module lead for 鈥淒igital Media: Professional Practice鈥 (2nd year module in BA Film, Television and Digital Media) and am co-teaching on the 鈥淒igital Screen Cultures鈥 MA module, convened by Dr Berenike Jung.
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Biography
Prior to joining the department of Film Studies, Neda Genova was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick), where she worked on an individual research project titled 鈥楤eneath the Pavement, What? Memes and Politics in Post-Socialism鈥.
Neda has taught across Higher Education Institutions in the UK and Germany, including at the Goldsmiths University of London, University of Warwick, London South Bank and the Heinrich Heine University of D眉sseldorf.
Neda holds a PhD in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, as well as degrees in Media and Cultural Studies (BA), Media and Cultural Analysis (MA) - both from the HHU D眉sseldorf - as well as in Contemporary Art Theory (MA) from Goldsmiths.
Neda鈥檚 writing has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as New Formations, Time & Society, Metode, European Review and others. She has presented her research at many international forums and has been a visiting researcher at the Leibniz Institute (Leipzig), Pratt Institute (New York) and the History of Consciousness department (UC Santa Cruz).
Neda is involved in collective editorial and translation practice through her work for the Bulgarian-language journal dVERSIA, which she co-founded in 2015.
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