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Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work explores the history of photography, cinema, and modern art from the nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the intersection of technical media and the environment.
She is currently working on her first book, Picturing the Air: Photography and the Industrial Atmosphere, which tells a history of air pollution as a photographic problem. Mobilizing the methods of technical art history and the environmental humanities, the project examines the aesthetic and material strategies that photographers developed to evade, negotiate with, and at times even negate the smoke, dust, and smog of the industrial atmosphere, giving rise to a fantasy of environmental purity that continues to perform ideological work today. Other research interests include the visual culture of science (especially scientific photography and film), educational cinema of the silent period, the history of botanical illustration and vegetal ornament, and abstraction across media (especially the monochrome format).
Katerina received her joint-PhD in Art History and Cinema & Media Studies from the University of Chicago, where she received the 2022 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her research has been supported by the Hanna Holborn Gray Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Fonds de la recherche du Québec (FRQSC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and an Affiliate Fellow in the Environmental Humanities at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center.
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PhD, University of Chicago
Award Date: Aug 30 2021
Mellon Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Sep 2024 → Apr 2025
Research Affiliate, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
Sep 1 2023 → Aug 30 2024
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