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Maria Romanova

Home Department: Asian Languages and Cultures

Maria 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 centres on environmental memory and permafrost thaw in the Sino-Siberian borderlands region and how multiple colonial temporalities affect ways of ecological remembering in late and post-socialist periods. Their broad theoretical interests lie at the intersection of environmental humanities, Siberian Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial and postcolonial thought, film theory, critical border studies and Inter-Asia border ecologies. Their previous academic research projects include Sino-Soviet cultural exchange in Republican China (1911-1949) and ecologies of independent/alternative art practice in contemporary China (2008-2019).

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.