Dr Hristova is the 2026 recipient of a Research Culture Networks Grant from the Learned Society of Wales for her Write Now! summer writing retreat which enables  academic mothers to research, write, and develop interdisciplinary partnerships in a supportive and understanding environment. She is the 2025 recipient of Medr Wales Research Environment and Culture WREC funding to develop, organise and run Write Now!, a research culture network and summer writing retreat for female/caring responsibilities Early Career Researchers at Bangor University.

Dr Hristova's current research project is Graffiti, Politics, Place, which seeks to determine the ways in which graffiti function as a form of political and cultural communication, heritage making and preservation in the postcolonial/devolved, coastal, post-industrial, and bilingual North Wales. Graffiti, Politics, Place has been part funded by Taith.

In Spring 2026 Dr Hristova and her UG students in the Research and Methods class are working together to dive deeply into local graffiti, street art and murals to: 1) capture and archive, 2) research public opinion, 3) understand news media reporting, 4) report on film and media representation, and 5) understand local artists and writers. You can see their progress at Graffiti.Wales.

Dr Hristova's previous research examined the history of women's labour in media and communication research and its implications for disciplinary foundations and research methodology. Some of this research was published in her co-edited collection The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women's Contributions to Media Studies (Goldsmiths, 2024) and in a special issue of the International Journal of Communication (2022). 

Dr Hristova is a historian of media, film and culture. Her research is at the intersection of media and communication history, race and gender, social movements, and visual communication. She teaches undergraduate modules on visual cultures, research and methods, film theory, gender and race, research methods, media ethics, and social movements.

Dr Hristova welcomes inquiries regarding PhD and MRes/MPhil supervision in media, film, and culture broadly.