Dimitra Gkitsa

Dr Dimitra Gkitsa is a Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leadership at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. As an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of memory studies, affect theory, and post-socialist visual cultures, her research focuses on Southeast Europe. She contributes to curatorial discourse through academic publications and practical projects.

• Centre for Transnational Studies
• Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
• Centre for Democratic Futures

Research Themes:

• Affective Commoning
• Ecologies of Decay
• Visual Cultures of Migration

Key Contributions: Monograph development on post-socialist curating, conference organization on industrial heritage, ongoing Post-matterialisms reading group.