Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is a vibrant department with diverse strands of research. You can browse staff research specialisms via the links to their staff profiles below, but otherwise can find a complete list of discipline staff on our Staff Pages.
- Dr Silvia Casini
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Dr Silvia Casini's work is situated at the crossroad of visual culture and science and technology studies. She is the author of several articles on the aesthetic, epistemological and societal implications of scientific visualisation. She is also the author of two monographs: Il ritratto-scansione. Immaginare il cervello tra neuroscienza e arte (Filosofie, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan, 2016) and Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology (Leonardo book series, MIT Press, 2021).
- Dr Katya Krylova
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Dr. Katya Krylova’s research is focused on modern and contemporary German and Austrian studies. She is the author of two monographs: Walking Through History: Topography and Identity in the Works of Thomas Bernhard and Ingeborg Bachmann (2013; Winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies) and The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture (2017). She is also the sole editor of the multi-authored book New Perspectives on Contemporary Austrian Literature and Culture (2018).
- Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi
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Dr Alejandra Rodríguez-Remedi has an academic background in Chilean vocational education and Latin American cultural studies. She has published peer-reviewed work on the poetics of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz whom she assisted during his time at the University of Aberdeen. Her current research in the field of environmental humanities focuses on arts-based approaches to petroculture. She would also welcome research projects on art cinema, film and dream, and film and exile.