October 18th, 2019: Katerina Korola

Please join us on Friday, Oct 18, 2019 from 11:00am-12:30pm in Cobb 311.

We are delighted to welcome Katerina Korola, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies & Art History at the University of Chicago. She will be presenting materials related to a first dissertation chapter, titled “Fresh Air Photography.”

Katerina’s document is available for download here.

Please do not circulate without permission. Email either Sophie (sophielynch@uchicago.edu) or Tanya (tanyad@uchicago.edu) for the password.

Refreshment will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you!

Yours in Mass Cult,

Sophie and Tanya


Katerina Korola is a PhD student pursuing a joint-degree in the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History. Interested in the nexus of ecology and media, her research focuses on set design and other forms of designed environments in early twentieth-century Germany (greenhouses, department stores, film studios, theatres, exhibition spaces). Other research interests include traditions of visionary architecture in the twentieth-century; decay and waste in postwar art and film; and the archive in contemporary art and film practices.

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