Anastasiia Korableva

Biography

Anastasiia Korableva (she/them) is a multidisciplinary creative professional and researcher specialising in urban art, protest culture, and creative propaganda in non-democratic societies. In their works, Anastasiia explores how art intersects with power, space, and collective memory in repressive political contexts. Her current doctoral research focuses on text-based street art as a form of resistance in contemporary Russia, examining how written expression operates within contested public spaces under authoritarian control. Their supervisors are Dr Gavin Grindon (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr Matt Lodder (University of Essex). Anastasiia earned her BA from St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts and an MA from St Petersburg State University, including exchange years at Radboud University (Netherlands) and Uppsala University (Sweden). She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, specialising in translations for the art and culture sector. Professionally, she has worked as a translator, librarian, and curator before progressing to the PhD level. At PHAIS, Anastasiia teaches the undergraduate module AR330: Art and Place, a course they designed drawing on their research and interdisciplinary academic background. She has contributed to both academic and cultural institutions with exhibitions, presentations, public talks and publications in English and Russian. Their selected texts include: - Street Arts Status in a Non-Democratic Society: A View from Russia / in Street Art and Democracy (Eds. E. Bonadio & S.-H. Egeland, Routledge, forthcoming 2026). - Street Art as a Form of Grassroots Democracy in the Sacred Space of the Russian City (Street Art Research Institute, 2024) - Art Wall: 10 Years. Retrospective (as Editor-in-Chief; Kuryokhin Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020). - The Problem of Conceptual Differentiation in Street Art / in Aesthetics of Street Art (Ed. K. Kukso, St Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, 2018). Anastasiia's academic achievements have been recognised through numerous scholarships, including the Russian Ministry of Cultures Personal Scholarship (2018 - 2019), Galina Starovoitovas Fund Scholarship (2017 - 2018), and Galina Sveshnikovas Memorial Scholarship (2016). Her current research is sponsored by Essex's Human Rights Centre (School of Law) and has been supported by the Sir Andrew Carnwath Travel Prize (PHAIS).

Qualifications

• BA Museology and Preservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites (1st-Class Hons) St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (2019)

• MA Curatorial Research (Distinction) St Petersburg State University (Smolny College) & Bard College NY (2021)

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