M Romanova
Home Department: Asian Languages and Cultures
M Romanova (they/them) is a Siberian Ukrainian PhD student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Asian Languages and Cultures and a Mellon Fellowship in the Critical Theory Cluster. Their research focuses on postsocialist aesthetic interventions into ecosocialism/eco-Marxism, as well as energy and extractivism in the Sino-Siberian borderlands from a decolonial perspective. Their broad theoretical interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Humanities, critical border studies, energy humanities, literary studies, and media studies.
M is the 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant at the Northwestern University Press, and also serves on the editorial board of Lime, a born-digital journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster that they co-founded. Lime is dedicated to querying and transgressing the boundaries of Environmental Humanities, through emergent conversations, methods, and mediums on nature, climate, and the environment.
They received their BA in Chinese from the University of Oxford in 2017 and their MPhil in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021.
M is the 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant at the Northwestern University Press, and also serves on the editorial board of Lime, a born-digital journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster that they co-founded. Lime is dedicated to querying and transgressing the boundaries of Environmental Humanities, through emergent conversations, methods, and mediums on nature, climate, and the environment.
They received their BA in Chinese from the University of Oxford in 2017 and their MPhil in Cultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021.