Moe Romanoff
Home Department: Asian Languages and Cultures
Moe Romanoff (they/them) is a Siberian Ukrainian PhD candidate in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Asian Languages and Cultures and a Mellon Fellowship in the Critical Theory Cluster. Their dissertation considers the aesthetic mediation of energy and extractivism at the Sino-Siberian borderlands in North Asia. Their broad theoretical interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Humanities, critical border studies, energy humanities, literary studies, as well as film and media studies.
As a research fellow through the NU Chicago Humanities Initiative in 2022, Moe has curated “A Siberian Poetics of Extinction in Cinema” for the Block Museum, a film program that reflects on the impact of the climate crisis on indigenous communities in Siberia/North Asia. In 2024-2025, they served as the graduate assistant to Northwestern University Press. Recently, they were a graduate group leader for the 2025 Summer Research Opportunity Program through GPS, mentoring a cohort of four undergraduate students. They are also the co-founder and co-editor of Lime, a born-digital journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster, dedicated to querying and transgressing the boundaries of EH 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.
As a research fellow through the NU Chicago Humanities Initiative in 2022, Moe has curated “A Siberian Poetics of Extinction in Cinema” for the Block Museum, a film program that reflects on the impact of the climate crisis on indigenous communities in Siberia/North Asia. In 2024-2025, they served as the graduate assistant to Northwestern University Press. Recently, they were a graduate group leader for the 2025 Summer Research Opportunity Program through GPS, mentoring a cohort of four undergraduate students. They are also the co-founder and co-editor of Lime, a born-digital journal of Northwestern’s Environment, Culture, and Society cluster, dedicated to querying and transgressing the boundaries of EH 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.