Pauline Shongov

Visiting Critic

Pauline Shongov is an artist-scholar whose work explores senses of place and collective memory across mediums. She co-founded with Maya Shopova Afield Practice: a research initiative at the intersection of heritage studies, environmental humanities, and critical media practice. Her scholarship broadly engages the fields of media archaeology, ruination studies, process philosophy, elemental media, visual ethnography, ecological thought, and history of science. She is currently completing her PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, where she is also a Presidential Scholar. Her work has been supported by the LEF-Flaherty Fellowship, Harvard Film Study Center, ArtLab at Harvard, Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Critical Media Practice program, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Cornell Council of the Arts. She has published in Metode (ROM for Art and Architecture) and Thresholds (MIT Press).