Natalia Fedorova
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Natalia Fedorova is a new media scholar, artist, and translator.[1][2] Her works include avant-garde poetry, kinetic poetry, concrete poetry, hyperfiction, literary text generators and video poetry. Fedorova mainly focuses on electronic literature centered on Russia and how it functions in Russia. She is one of the most notable female contributors to electronic literature from Russia. She is the co-founder with Taras Mashtalir of the media poetry group Machine Libertine.
Fedorova was born in 1981 and currently resides in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
She graduated with a PhD in literary theory from Herzen University in Saint Petersburg in October 2008.[3] She also studied as a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Trope Tank with Nick Montfort.[4] Before getting her PhD, she earned her MA and BA in European literature and also attended Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea, studying Korean language and culture.
Career
Fedorova worked as an associate professor at Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design in the Department of Foreign Language from September 2006 to December 2012. She taught the courses Creative Writing with New Media, New Media in Contemporary Art, Practicum in Art Criticism, and Text in Visual Art.
She taught in the Curatorial Studies Program in Smolny College, St Petersburg, and in 2022, she returned as a visiting artist at Smolny beyond borders.[3] Natalia has been a SPIRE guest researcher with the ELMCIP group at the University of Bergen (Norway). [5]
