Rada Georgieva

Rada Georgieva is a PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, specializing in transnational Cold War-era art networks between the Eastern Bloc and Latin America. Her research challenges center/periphery binaries through analysis of mail art and samizdat as counter-cultural resistance mechanisms.

Her academic background includes:

• PhD Candidate in Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2023-present)
• MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture, University of Oxford (2022-2023)
• MA in Art History and Russian, University of St Andrews (2018-2022)

Georgieva's research centers on Latin American and Eastern European post-war art, examining materiality of censored publications, printmaking techniques, and word-image relationships in experimental poetry. Her work emphasizes Bulgaria, USSR, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina as interconnected cultural nodes where mail art networks circumvented state control through global exchange.

Her 2025 publication analyzes testimonial photography in Chilean artists' work, while recent conference presentations explore transnational visual poetry, asemic writing in mail art, and Cold War cultural diplomacy. These outputs reveal consistent interdisciplinary focus on marginalized artistic strategies across political divides, with emphasis on material circulation and poetic resistance.

Funded by AHRC/CHASE, Georgieva contributes to art historical pedagogy as Teaching Assistant for The Courtauld's Summer University (2024) and 'Exhibiting Art' course (2025), bridging her doctoral research with practical museum studies instruction.