Research Interests
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 research focuses on visual cultures of contemporary science and medicine, cinema and science beyond science fiction, and art-science cross-fertilisation. Her articles appear in Configurations, Leonardo Journal, Nuncius, The Senses and Society, Contemporary Aesthetics and Technoscienza. She is the author of the monograph Il ritratto-scansione: Immaginare il cervello tra neuroscienza e arte (Filosofie, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan). Her second-authored monograph Giving Bodies back to Data is under contract with MIT Press (Leonardo book series) and will be published in Spring 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).