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.
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.