About
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’s 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 “View from the Window”, 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’s children’s novel “The Amber Spyglass” (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 “Politics of Surfaces. Transformations of Urban Space in Post-Communist Sofia” (forthcoming with Goldsmiths Press), as well as the edited volume “Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons”, which brings together collaborative aesthetic interventions.
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Teaching
I am module lead for “Digital Media: Professional Practice” (2nd year module in BA Film, Television and Digital Media) and am co-teaching on the “Digital Screen Cultures” MA module, convened by Dr Berenike Jung.
I also contribute to the “MA Film Dissertation module”.
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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 ‘Beneath the Pavement, What? Memes and Politics in Post-Socialism’.
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 Düsseldorf.
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 Düsseldorf - as well as in Contemporary Art Theory (MA) from Goldsmiths.
Neda’s 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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