PROF ALEXANDRA KOKOLI
BA Hons in Modern Letters, Department of Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; MA in Comparative Literary Theory, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK); DPhil in Modern European Literature, Graduate Research Centre for the Humanities, University of Sussex, Brighton (UK).
Dr Kokoli works as Associate Professor in Fine Art and Contextual Studies and Director of Programmes for Fine Art at Middlesex University, London (UK). An art historian and theorist trained in comparative literature, Kokoli researches the aesthetic mobilisation of discomfort to political ends, focusing on art practices and visual activism informed by and committed to intersectional feminism. Her extensice and interdisciplinary experience in Higher Education teaching, curriculum development, academic leadership and quality assurance was recognised with the award of a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2019.
Kokoli’s research is principally disseminated by academic publication but also through talks, mentoring, consultancy, short form writing and curating. Key publications include the edited collections Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference; Susan Hiller: The Provisional Texture of Reality (2008); Art into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin, co-edited with Deborah Cherry (2020); and the monograph The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice (2016). Her writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues and art publications including for Tate and Glasgow International, and leading academic journals such as Art Journal, Hypatia, and British Art Studies. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: Cosmos and on the international advisory board for Hypatia.
Kokoli’s research into art and visual activism at the Greenham Common women’s peace camp has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Leverhulme Trust, and she was also co-investigator on the Transnational Early Career Research Network (TECReN) in Visual and Performing Arts, funded by the British Academy.
Prof Alexandra Kokoli joined VIAD in 2016.
