Dr Elena Hristova

Lecturer in Film and Media

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Dr Hristova is a historian of media and culture. Her research is at the intersection of media and communication history, critical whiteness studies, gender studies, social movements, and critical approaches to methodology. 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 The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women's Contributions to Media Studies (Goldsmiths, 2024) and in the International Journal of Communication (2022). 

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 North Wales. Graffiti, Politics, Place has been part funded by Taith.

Dr Hristova teaches modules on visual culture, gender, race, research methods, media ethics, and social movements.

Dr Hristova is a current recipient of WREC funding to organise and run Write Now! Summer 2025 writing retreats for Early Career Researchers at Bangor University.

  1. Published

    Introduction

    Hristova, E., Dorsten, A.-M. & Stabile, C., 16 Jan 2024, The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies. London: Goldsmiths Press

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Teaching #BlackLivesMatter: Media, Race, and Social Movement: Editor’s Notes and Introduction

    Hristova, E. (Editor), 2016, In: Teaching Media Quarterly. 4, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  3. Published

    Critical Lessons on Media Industries: Editors' Introduction

    Hristova, E. (Editor) & Zimmerman, H. (Editor), 2017, In: Teaching Media Quarterly. 5, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  4. Published

    Joe Worker and the Story of Labor: Educating Workers for the Post-World War II Labor Program

    Hristova, E., Dec 2014, In: International Journal of Comic Art. 16, 2, p. 132-152

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Nuestro Futuro – ¿Hombres Libres, O Esclavos?: imagining U.S.–Mexican cooperation against the Axis powers in a World War II propaganda comic book

    Hristova, E., Dec 2016, Cultures of Comics Work. Brienza, C. & Johnston, P. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 65-80

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Three trailblazing women in media who’ve been forgotten – until now

    Hristova, E. & Dorsten, A.-M., 22 Jan 2024, The Conversation.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  7. Published

    Research Project Showcase 2024

    Hristova, E., 5 Jul 2024, Bangor University. 152 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthology

  8. Published

    The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women's Contributions to Media Studies

    Hristova, E. (Editor), Dorsten, A.-M. (Editor) & Stabile, C. (Editor), 16 Jan 2024, London: Goldsmiths Press. 224 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  9. Published
  10. Book Review: Kaitlynn Mendes, SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media

    Hristova, E., 1 Oct 2016, In: European Journal of Communication. 31, 5, p. 609-612

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  11. The Women of Communication Studies and Foundation Funding

    Hristova, E., 18 Oct 2018, Rockefeller Archive Center.

    Research output: Book/ReportCommissioned report

  12. Work and Media: Editor’s Notes and Introduction

    Hristova, E., 1 Mar 2015, In: Teaching Media Quarterly. 3, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalSpecial issuepeer-review

  13. Research and Publishing at the Bureau of Applied Social Research: The Gendering of Commercial and Academic Work

    Hristova, E., 2022, In: International Journal of Communication. 16, p. 655-663

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Citizenship in times of crisis: the case of working-class white men in post-World War II New York

    Hristova, E., Sept 2024.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  15. Published

    Teaching with The Ghost Reader: Preliminary Pedagogical Reflections

    Hristova, E., 22 Feb 2024, The Ghost Reader Digital Companion.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  16. Published

    Patricia L. Kendall

    Hristova, E., 16 Jan 2024, The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies . Hristova, E., Stabile, C. & Dorsten, A.-M. (eds.). London: Goldsmiths Press

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  17. Published

    The Ghost Reader Digital Companion

    Stabile, C., Risam, R., McCullers, T., Tokos, L., Yousaf, M., Hristova, E. & Dorsten, A.-M., 20 Feb 2024, REANIMATE.

    Research output: Other contribution