StefkaH.Hristova
AssistantProfessorofDigitalMedia
DepartmentofHumanities
MichiganTechnologicalUniversity
HoughtonMI49931
Email:[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.inVisualStudieswithaCriticalTheoryEmphasis,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,
CA,June2010
M.A.CommunicationStudies,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LosAngeles,CA,2004
B.SS.MarketingCommunicationsandAdvertising(Honors),EmersonCollege,Boston
MA,1999
PUBLICATIONS
Slack,JenniferD.andHristova,Stefka.“CultureIn-Colour.”CulturalStudies,July2016.<
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2016.1206131>.
Hristova,Stefka.“RecognizingFriendandFoe:Biometrics,Veridiction,andtheIraqWar.”
SurveillanceandSociety,vol.12,no.4,December2014,pp.516-527.
<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-andsociety/article/view/friendfoe>
Hristova,Stefka.“VisualMemesasNeutralizersofPoliticalDissent.”CriticalVisualTheory,
specialissueofTripleC:Communication,Capitalism&Critique.OpenAccessJournalfora
GlobalSustainableInformationSociety,vol12.no.1,2014,pp.265-276.
<http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/507>
Hristova,Stefka.“OccupyWallStreetmeetsOccupyIraq:OnRememberingandForgetting
inaDigitalAge.”RadicalHistoryReview,vol.117,Fall2013,pp.83-97.
Hristova,Stefka.“’DoingaLynndie’:IconographyofaGesture.”VisualAnthropologyJournal,
vol.26.no.5,2013,pp.430-443.
<http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dUaA43py5IJI38WsrhCx/full>
Hristova,Stefka.“DigitalAnimalizedCamouflage:AZoneofBiopoliticalIndistinction.”
Interstitial:AJournalofModernCultureandEvents,July2013,pp.1-13.
<http://bit.ly/102APOG>.
Hristova,Stefka.“’LifeisWaiting:’Statehood,Temporality,andMobilityatTheTerminal.”
TransnationalSubjectsJournal,vol.2,no.1,2012,pp.309-326.
Hristova,Stefka.“AbuGhraib:AGhostlyStory.”Gender,Power,andMilitaryOccupations:
AsiaPacificandtheMiddleEastsince1945.Eds.ChristinedeMatosandRowenaWard.
Routledge,2012,pp.181-197.
Hristova,Stefka.“ImagingModernity:WomeninRogerFenton’sPhotographsofCrimea.”
MinervaJournalofWomenandWar,vol.3,no.1,Spring2009,pp.43-64.
Hristova,Stefka.“TheMythoftheWarHeroExaminedinthePortrayaloftheRescueof
PrivateLynchinNewsweek.”Colloquy:TheJournaloftheCommunicationScholarship
ProgramatCSULA,vol.6,January2005.
FORTHCOMINGPUBLICATIONS
“ImagesasData:CulturalAnalyticsandAbyWarburg’sMnemosyne”forthcominginthe
InternationalJournalofDigitalArtHistory.
“Ruin,Rubble,andtheNecropoliticsofHistory”forthcomingintheJournal
Transformations.
’BlueScreenofDeath’:TransparentWindows,CompositeMedia,andtheAestheticsof
Continuity”forthcomingintheJournalConvergence.
BOOKMANUSCRIPT
ShoringUptheState:Visuality,Politics,andHistoriesintheRemakingofIraqreviseand
resubmitwithDartmouthCollegePressfortheirRe-MappingtheTransnational:A
DartmouthSeriesinAmericanStudies(reviseandresubmit)
REVIEWSANDEDITORIALS
Hristova,Stefka.BookReviewofBeyondtheCheckpoint:VisualPracticesinAmerica'sGlobal
WaronTerrorforTechnologyandCulture,vol.57,January2016,pp.282-3.
HristovaStefka.“VisualLiteracies:FromPrinttoScreen.”Games+Learning+SocietyGLS8.0
ConferenceProceedings,2012,pp.499-500.
Hristova,Stefka.“OfferingaHelpingHandintheAftermathofHurricaneKatrina.”Women
andLanguage(Spring2011).
INTERACTIVEPROJECTSANDEXHIBITIONS
StefkaHristova“PicturingtheUP”EducationalGameexhibitedattheGameArcadeat
Games+Learning+SocietyConference.UniversityofWisconsin-Madison.June152012.
DavidTheoGoldberg&StefkaHristova;designbyErikLoyer,"BlueVelvet,"2006
ShowcasedatTheElectronicLiteratureExhibitionaspartof2012MLAConvention.
ComputerStation7:VectorsProjects
VisualSupport(visualarchivalworkandimageselection)forProf.Goldberg'sBlog
http://www.threatofrace.org/(2007)
PRESENTATIONS
November2015Presenter
“ChartingtheTerritory:SpaceandPowerintheIraqWar”AnnualConferenceforthe
AmericanStudiesAssociation.
May2015Presenter
“ImagesasData:CulturalAnalytics,AbyWarburg’sMnemosyne,andtheRelevanceofa
‘SciencewithNames’”AtHASTAC
March2015Presenter
“BlueScreenofDeath:Exposure,Distance,Sanitization”AnnualConferenceofthe
AmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation
Novemnber2014Presenter
“BulgariaInthePhotographyoftheCrimeanWar:MilitaryandMilitia”atBalkanWorldsII:
BalkanPerceptionsofWarandRevolution(1789-1918)
November2013Presenter
“NonsynchronousCollectiveResistance”attheAmericanStudiesAssociation.
April2013Presenter
“RememberingtheRemakingofIraq”attheIraqAfterTenYearsofWar:ItsCausesand
ConsequencesConference
April2013Presenter
“DigitizedAnimalizedCamouflage:AZoneofBiopoliticalIndistinction”AnnualConference
oftheAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation
November2012Presenter
“SecuringtheState:ExploringtheRoleofAnthropometricsandBiometricsinthe1930s
andthe2000sOccupationsofIraq”attheAmericanStudiesAssociation.
June2012Presenter
“OccupyWallStreetmeetsOccupyIraqInternetHumor,Dissonance,Dissent,andCultural
Critique”attheVisualCommunicationConference
October2011Presenter
“PixelatedWars:Invisibility,Digitalization,andMilitarizationinAmericanCulture”atthe
AmericanStudiesAssociationAnnualMeeting
December2009ChairandPresenter
“"DoingtheLynndie":translatingtortureintoeverydayculture”attheAmerican
AnthropologicalAssociationAnnualMeeting
November2009Participant
“TheStateasPrisonintheBorder(Granitza)”atAmericanAssociationfortheAdvancement
ofSlavicStudiesConvention
April2009ChairandPresenter
“WhatdoesitmeantobeKrakozhian”attheNationalPopularCultureAssociationand
AmericanCultureAssociation.
February2009
“WaitingasDelayorDetention”attheSouthwestTexas/PopularCulture/AmericanCulture
Association
October25,2008
“WaitinginTransit”attheSanFranciscoStateUniversityCinemaStudiesGraduateStudent
AssociationConference“TimeFramed:ExploringTemporalityandFilm“
March6,2008
“ImaginingtheState:fromroguetofailed”atSocietyforCinemaandMediaStudiesAnnual
Conference“ArchitecturesoftheMovingImage”
November15,16,172007
“ConstructingRealisminRogerFenton'sPhotographsoftheCrimeanWar”and“Blaming
AbuGhraibonBadTaste”attheNationalCommunicationAssociationConvention
May12,2007
“'UnlawfulCombatants'undertheNomosoftheEmpire”at“PostcolonialRepresentation[s]
&theU.S.”attheGraduateStudentConferenceACGCatUCSB
April2007
"ConsumptioninMarthaRosler'sphotomontageElection(Lynndie)"at“Epistemologiesof
Torture:Limits,Bodies,BlackSites”,5thAnnualCLTCGraduateStudentConferenceUCSB
November2006
“Constructionoffemalegenderandsexualityinearlyfeministvideoart:LyndaBenglis'
"Now"”attheNationalCommunicationAssociationConvention
February2006
"Constructionoffemalegenderandsexualityinearlyfeministvideoart:LyndaBenglis'
Now”at“SexMatters”UCRInterdisciplinaryGraduateConference
February2004
“FearandChristianValuesontheEveoftheSecondGulfWar”atWesternStates
CommunicationAssociationConvention
November2004
“TheMythoftheWarHeroExaminedinthePortrayaloftheRescueofPrivateLynchin
NewsweekMagazine”attheNationalCommunicationAssociationConvention
ACADEMICGRANTSANDAWARDS
MTUResearchExcellenceFund:ScholarshipandCreativityGrantApril2016
Amongthetop10%teachersattheCollegeofArtsandSciences,MichiganTechnological
UniversitySpring2015
MTUResearchExcellenceFundMentoringGrantApril2013
MTUCTLFDMiniGrantforInstructionalImprovementandInnovationJune2012
KarenJohnsonFreezeFellowshipattheBulgarianCentreofExcellence'DialogueEurope'
2010-2011
HumanitiesCenterSummerDissertationGrant,2009
TheCenterforGlobalPeaceandConflictStudiesGraduateStudentTravelGrant2007
KugelmanPeacebuildingFellowship2007-2008
UCIHumanitiesInstituteTravelGrant2009
UCIGraduateStudentConferenceTravelAward2006,2007
SCMSStudentTravelGrant2008
POSITIONS
AssistantProfessor,MichiganTechnologicalUniversity,Houghton
Fall2011–present
Part-TimeLecturer,CaliforniaStateUniversity,LongBeach,Spring2011
TeachingAssociate,InstructoronRecord,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine.Summer
SessionI2008,2009
TeachingFellow,UCDCProgramUniversityofCalifornia,Washington,D.C.,Fall2008
TeachingAssistant,FilmandMediaStudiesDepartmentUniversityofCalifornia,
Irvine,Fall2005-Fall2006
TeachingIntern,OrangeCoastCollege,Fall2007
COURSESTAUGHT
HU6110CriticalAesthetics
HU4642AdvancedWebDesign
HU3642MobileMedia
HU3650IntroductiontoWebDesign
HU3871NewMediaTheory
HU2642IntroductiontoDigitalMedia
HU2633FundamentalsofDigitalImaging(OnlineandInClass)
HU2820–CommunicationandCulture
PUBLISHEDSTUDENTWORK
“VisualRepresentationsofWomenintheColdWar.”SpecialIssueofWomenandLanguage,
December2011,<http://www.womenandlanguage.org/WomenColdWar/>
“DigitalMediaProliferationAroundtheWorld.”TheJUMP(JournalforUndergraduate
MultimediaProjects),November30,2012<http://jump.dwrl.utexas.edu/>
PROFESSIONALSERIVCEANDAFFILIATIONS
Reviewer
CinemaJournal,Reviewer2015
DigitalHumanitiesQuarterly,Reviewer2014,2016
NewMediaandSocietyJournal,Reviewer2013
deGruyterOpen,ManagingBookEditorforCultureDecember2013–July2014
UniversityService
UniversitySenatoratLarge2015-April2016
HumanitiesRepresentativeUniversitySenatorApril2016-present
GeneralEducationandAssessmentSenateCommittee2015-present
Rhetoric,Theory,andCultureGraduateCommittee
Rhetoric,Theory,andCultureColloquimCommittee
Communication,Culture,andMediaCommittee
MediaCommittee
Affiliations
AmericanStudiesAssociation,2008-present
AmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation2012-present
HASTACScholarMentor2013-2014
SocietyforCinemaandMediaStudies,2007-2015
ElectronicLiteratureOrganization,2007
AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,2008-2009
AmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies,2007–2010
TheCenterforGlobalPeaceandConflictStudiesattheUCIrvine,2006–present
NationalCommunicationAssociation,2003-2007,2009-2010
ModernLanguagesAssociation,2009-2010