Dr Maria Korolkova BA, MA, MPhil (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)

• Academic Lead for Media Portfolio
• Programme Leader MA Media and Creative Cultures
• PGR Lead for Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Changing form of silence: 'Curating silent films in multimedia environment', ECR Research Grant, University of Greenwich, UK (2018-2019)
• Erasmus Training Grant, Media Science Department, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2018)
• Graduate Seminar Funding, University of Oxford, UK (2012, 2013)
• Florence Exchange Grant, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK (2011)
• Graduate Research Fund, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK (2010)
• Overseas Research Award, University of Oxford, UK (2009)
• Clarendon Scholarship (DPhil Scholarship), University of Oxford, UK (2009)
• 'Lavrovaya Vetv' for Best documentary (Scriptwriter), Moscow, Russia (2009)
• Chevening Scholarship (MPhil), British Council, Russia-UK (2008)
• Fulbright Scholarship (Not accepted) (2008)

External reviewer 

• Journal of Design History
• MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory

Advisory and examination boards member

• Member of the Advisory Board to Revalidation BA Media Culture and Journalism, University of South Wales, 12 February 2020
• Member of the Advisory Board to the Approval of MA Data, Culture, Visualization, ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia, 2018-2019
• External Examiner for BA (Hons) Media and Performance, University of Salford, 2018-2021
• External Examiner for Foundation Degree in Film and Screen Media, Leeds City College, 2018-2021
• Member of the Advisory Board to Design and Approval of DProf/Degree Apprenticeship in Arts Leadership, University Alliance UK, 2017-2018
• External Panel Member to Re-approval of MA Framework: MA Creative Fashion Start-up/MA Creative Design Start-up, University of West London, June 2018
• External Panel Member to Periodic Subject Review of BA in Multimedia Journalism, BA Sports Journalism, University of Northampton, April 2018
• External Panel Member to Validation of BA in Communication, Media and Journalism, University of Buckingham, January 2018
• External Panel Member to Major Changes of BA in Multimedia Journalism, University of Northampton, December 2017

Maria Korolkova's research interests include miscommunications, errors, mistakes; new materiality and post-humanism; dwelling, everyday urbanism, artists' studios; Russian and Ukrainian film, media, and culture; methodologies of interdisciplinarity. Her co-edited collection Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in January 2021. Maria is a co-founder of Advanced Urban, a centre for interdisciplinary urban research that intersects materiality, media and space.

Key funded projects

Changing Forms of Silence: Curating Silent Films in Multimedia Environment, ECR Research Grant, University of Greenwich, UK (2018-2019). Recent years have seen an explosion of the performance of live music to silent films. Ranging from conventional solo piano performances, to organs, theremins, electronic music, and large orchestras performing a specially written score, today's cultural institutions compete in curating and delivering programmes of 'film concerts' focusing specifically on silent films. With the case study of programming Russian silent films this project will question intermediality of silent cinema and live music on several levels. Is this a form of survival or revival of silent films in our contemporary multimedia environment? What do electronic and experimental scores bring to silent films as a medium? What happens to the agency of in-betweeness in this case – is it within composers, directors, performers, or audiences? What are the curating practices and policies of this intermediality, especially investigated through such a politicised historical context?

Public lectures, round tables and workshops

• 'What is/are Digital Humanities?' Panel discussion with Lev Manovich, ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia, 20 June 2019
• In conversation with Nikolai Izvolov on restoring Dziga Vertov's Anniversary of the Revolution, SSEES, UCL, 10 June 2019
• 'What is digital?', University of Glasgow Post-Digital Day, CCA, Glasgow, UK, 26 April 2019
• Q&A for Bauer Project Screening, Child of the Big City (1914) by Evgenii Bauer, Byre Theatre, St Andrews, UK, 26 April 2019
• 'Creative Industries in London and the Power of Media Education', Public lecture organized by ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia, 12 January 2019
• Workshop in Digital Activism, Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, East Sussex, UK, 27 August 2018
• Workshop in Fashion and Media, Byline Festival, Pippingford Park, East Sussex, UK, 27 August 2018
• In conversation with Andrei Smirnov, Dziga Vertov's Day, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 20 December 2017

Curation

• 'Bauer Project', Film screening with live ensemble, Byre Theatre, St Andrews, UK
• '26 April 2019.'A World to Win: A Century of Revolution on Screen', Film Season, Regent Street Cinema and Barbican Centre, London, UK, 12 February – 26 October 2017

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