Mina Radovic, MA PhD

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Mina Radovic (photography: private)

Dr. Mina Radovic is a film historian, philologist, curator, archivist; Lecturer and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. His research expertise is in studies of language, literature and film; film history and historiography; archiving and restoration; world cinema; early cinema; cultural heritage; Yugoslav cinema and the Holocaust on film.

He holds a PhD and PGCE from Goldsmiths, University of London, MA in Film Studies and German from the University of St Andrews with placements at the University of Heidelberg and Vienna. Additionally, Mina holds the prestigious FIAF Certificate in Film Restoration: Archiving & Preservation from the International Federation of Film Archives.

He leads the non-profit Liberating Cinema UK with an annual programme of Masterclasses, Workshops, Exhibitions, a regular Film Series, Restoration Lab and Film Festival. Mina curates for world-leading museums including MoMA, Anthology Film Archives and Cineteca Bologna (Il Cinema Ritrovato). His work has received international acclaim and led to the scientific and public rediscovery of major cultural heritage and world cinema.

 

Employment (selected)

  • 2024 / 2025-Present Lecturer and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Vienna
  • 2018-Present International Curator, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Anthology Film Archives, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, BIMI, ICA, Bertha Doc House
  • 2015-Present Founder, Director, Head of Programming, Liberating Cinema UK
  • 2024-2025 Graduate School Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • 2018-2024 Doctoral Researcher, Associate Lecturer, Staff Representative for Undergraduates, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • 2021-2022 Researcher and Curator, Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Birkbeck, University of London
  • 2020-2021 Submissions Editor, Brief Encounters, Peer-Reviewed Journal, Arts and Humanities Research Council UK: http://briefencounters-journal.co.uk/BE
  • 2018 FIAF Certificate in Analogue and Digital Film Restoration (Archiving & Preservation), International Federation of Film Archives, Cineteca Bologna

Qualifications

  • 2024 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Goldsmiths, University of London
  • 2021 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Goldsmiths, University of London
  • 2018 Master of Arts (MA) in Filmwissenschaft und Germanistik, University of St Andrews
  • 2017 MA Austausch, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Wien
  • 2016 Deutsche Sprache und Kultur International School, Universität Heidelberg

Awards and Funding

  • Seit 2025 Maria Skłodowska-Curie Grant, Universität Wien
  • 2024 The Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture & The East Central European Center, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
  • 2019-2023 CHASE AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (UKRI), Goldsmiths, University of London                              
  • 2018-2020 Doctoral Grant, Scottish International Education Trust, Edinburgh
  • 2018 Creative Scotland Talent Development Grant
  • 2018 2015 The Best Film and Best Editing Awards, University of St Andrews                                                    
  • 2018 2015 The Anita Loos Award Finalist for the Most Outstanding Essay in Film Studies, University of St Andrews
  • 2016 DAAD Scholarship, Universität Heidelberg

Teaching (selected)

  • Approaching Cultural Studies (see u:find): including Methods and Approaches, English Literature, Adaptation, Cultural Geography, Cultural History, Cultural Memory, Sub-Cultures, Introduction to Film Studies
  • Literary Modernism Goes to the Movies
  • Writing Charlie Chaplin: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Modernist
  • Writing and Politics: Bertolt Brecht and G.W. Pabst
  • Writing Hollywood: Nathanael West and The Day of the Locust
  • The Theory and Practice of Adaptation: Robert Stam
  • The Politics of Adaptation: Franz Kafka and Orson Welles
  • International Adaptation: Sarah Waters and The Handmaiden’s Journey from Victorian England to 1930s Korea
  • The Gender of Adaptation: Virginia Woolf and Sally Potter’s Orlando

Curation (selected)

Publications (selected)

Monograph

  • Radović, Mina: Framing Totalitarianism: Language and Film in Nazi Germany, 2026.

Book Chapters

  • Radović, Mina: “Learning from Totalitarianism: The Inculcation of Ideology through Language” in Weixiao Wei and Der-lin Chao (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of the Socio-Political Context of Language Learning, New York: Routledge, 2025.
  • Radović, Mina: ““The Lubitsch Touch under National Socialism?”: The Director’s Early Works and their Influence on Nazi Film Aesthetics” in David John Boyd (ed.): The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

Edited Volumes/Dossiers

Journal Articles

  • Radović, Mina: “Yugoslav Horror Cinema” in Film Quarterly, Vol. 79, Issue 4, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025.
  • Radović, Mina: “The Battle of Neretva: Production, Exhibition, Reception, Aesthetics, and Historiography” in The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 43, Issue 3, London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2023.
  • Radović, Mina: “‘Das ist Walter’: The Evolution of the Archetypal Hero embodied by Velimir ‘Bata’ Živojinović in the Yugoslav War Film” in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Vol. 13. Issue 2, London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022.
  • Radović, Mina: “Framing Totalitarianism: Voyeurism and Spectatorship in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” in Studi Pasoliniani, Volume 14, Pisa/Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2020.
  • Radović, Mina: “The Cinema in Serbia 1896-1941” in Studies in Eastern European Cinema (by Stevan Jovičić), Vol. 10, Issue 3, London/New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2019.

Book Reviews

  • Radović, Mina: “Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896”; Book Review for The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 44, Issue 2, London/New York: Routledge, 2024.
  • Radović, Mina: “Documentary Film Festivals between Local and Global Circuits”; Book Review for Studies in Documentary Film, Vol. 16, Issue 2, London/New York: Routledge, 2022.
  • Radović, Mina: “Reframing National Cinema, Archival Memory, and the Preservation of Film Heritage”; Book Review for Screen, Vol. 62, Issue 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Conferences & Lectures (selected)

  • 2025 The Legacy of The City Symphony in Yugoslav Fiction Film, After the City Symphony International Conference, Universite de Toulouse - Jean Jaures
  • 2024 The Holocaust in Yugoslav Cinema: Deveti krug, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
  • 2024 (Counter) Memories of Conflicts in Medieval Europe, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales / Sorbonne University, Paris
  • 2023 Black Wave to White Ray: An Introduction to Yugoslav Cinema, MoMA
  • 2022 Ita Rina: Searching for The Yugoslav Star of the Silent Screen, Women and the Silent Screen International Conference, Columbia University
  • 2022 The Historical and Cultural Significance of The Legacy Archive, Archives and Archival Methods, The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
  • 2021 Changing the ‘Frame’: The Language of Public Discourse and Policy in Nazi Germany 1932-1935, 53rd Annual Meeting, The British Association for Applied Linguistics, Northumbria University
  • 2020 ‘The Ones That Did Not Happen’: The Fascist Influence in the Venice International Film Festival 1932-1945, Reframing Film Festivals International Conference, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
  • 2019 Losing and Recovering Heritage through the Archive: The Case of Dvije Sirotice/Two Orphans (1918) in the Silent Period of Yugoslav Cinema, EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam

Public Outreach (selected)

Languages

  • English: Fluent
  • German: Fluent
  • Serbo-Croatian: Fluent
  • Russian: Basic
  • Greek: Basic