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.
- Paper › Research › Peer-reviewed
- Published
Women’s radical cultural criticism: reflections and projections on teaching with Fredi Washington and Claudia Jones
Hristova, E., 30 May 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
- Article › Research
- Published
Teaching with The Ghost Reader: Preliminary Pedagogical Reflections
Hristova, E., 22 Feb 2024, The Ghost Reader Digital Companion.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
- 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 publication › Article
- Other contribution › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- 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
- Book › Research › Peer-reviewed
- 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/Report › Book › peer-review
- Anthology › Research › Not peer-reviewed
- Published
Research Project Showcase 2024
Hristova, E., 5 Jul 2024, Bangor University. 152 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
- Commissioned report › Research › Not peer-reviewed
The Women of Communication Studies and Foundation Funding
Hristova, E., 18 Oct 2018, Rockefeller Archive Center.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report